A Brooklyn woman who was presumably starting to decorate the walls of her TGI Fridays stole a NYPD license plate off a squad car and stuffed it down her pants. The Post reports that 53-year-old Beryl Duncan stole the plate off a car near Prospect Park, where cops were sent to dissolve a large crowd. A witness told the responding officer what Duncan had done, and when confronted, she denied it. This sort of flirtation worked brilliantly in 5th grade, but the technique does not age well.
Duncan then admitted to taking the plate, but said "that it fell off the police car and she was holding it for the cop." She was charged with possession of stolen property and petty larceny. Given the sorry state of those bolts that hold license plates onto cars these days, we're confident this woman is an American hero.
