• Richard Turpin apparently just needed to borrow a truck, but he ended up with charges filed against him in Bratenhal, Ohio, on June 18.
WJW-TV reported that a mail carrier parked his USPS van at the end of a driveway and walked up to the house to deliver the mail, giving Turpin a chance to jump in and take off.
A witness saw the theft and called police, who caught up with Turpin a few miles away. When they asked him why he took the truck, he cryptically answered: "A U-Haul."
The police officer responded, "I don't think that's a U-Haul" -- but surprise!
Inside, they found a big-screen TV that hadn't been in the truck earlier, according to the mailman.
And no mail was missing. The mail carrier admitted he'd left the keys in the ignition. [WJW, 6/21/2021]
• A 35-year-old man from Emmaus, Pennsylvania, was presumably having a good time on June 20, sitting in his Dodge Ram truck and lighting fireworks, then throwing them out the window ... until he was critically injured by one that didn't make it outside the cab.
The exploding firework also did significant damage to the interior of the truck, lehighvalleylive.com reported, but didn't cause a fire, Emmaus Police Chief Troy Schantz said. [lehighvalleylive.com, 6/21/2021]