PSA: Carjacking Rule #213 - Pick A Subtle Target

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We’re not up on proper carjacking tips and etiquette, but we’re guessing that selecting the most conspicuous car on the street for a target is probably a recipe for disaster.

So it is for a pair of men in Tampa, who have been charged with armed carjacking after they lifted a lime-green 2006 Dodge Charger. The suspects also didn’t count on the plucky owner hanging on to his car as the driver attempted to get away, aiming the Charger at parked cars in an attempt to get him off the car. The episode has also cost one of the carjackers an attempted murder charge.

How were they caught? Why, the Dodge’s beacon-like Sublime paint was spotted behind a fence where the car was being stripped for parts.

Brilliant.

+ St Petersburg Times: Lime-green car points men in blue to suspects