Dumb Criminal of the Day: Man Arrested After Extra Long Test Drive

We’ve all taken a test drive before. You get the feel for a vehicle and drive it around the block, maybe hit the highway to see how it accelerates. I assumed the whole ‘bringing the car back to the dealership’ was a fairly obvious rule.

However, a Wisconsin man had a severely skewed idea of how long a test drive should last and ended up in the back seat of a police cruiser because of it.

According to AZCentral, the owner of A to Z Auto in Madison, Wisconsin called 911 Friday and reported a man had driven off his lot in a 2000 Nissan Altima without waiting for a salesman to ride along. Police arrested the 47-year old man just seven miles from the dealership but he told them he had driven the car to Milwaukee (a 78-mile drive) in order to pick up some cash to buy the vehicle, and he had planned to go back and buy it the next day. His rationale?

“You just don’t take it for a 15-minute test drive.”

Here’s some news for you big guy, you can’t just take a dealership's car for a 160-mile joyride either.