Released from jail with no way to get home, why not steal a municipal golf cart

I believe that some people were just born to do stupid things. According to the St. Louis Dispatch some dumb ass in St. Louis USA after being released from jail in the middle of the night decided the only way he could get home was by hot wiring and stealing a golf cart. If that wasn't stupid enough he then left it on his front yard. Police say a 27-year-old man just released from jail stole a golf cart from the Center of Clayton recreation facility and drove it to his home in Lemay. Richard Blome of the 100 block of East Cartwright had been released from the St. Louis County Justice Center at about 1:58a.m. on June 15. He had been arrested about two hours earlier in south St. Louis County for destruction of private property, a county ordinance violation, and was released with a ticket, according to the police.

Blome told Clayton detectives that he didn't have a ride home from jail so he wandered around and "stumbled" upon the golf cart at the Center of Clayton recreation center at 50 Gay Avenue, said Capt. Kevin Murphy. Somehow, he got it to Lemay, about 10 miles south of Clayton.

 

"It was a curiosity to us around the police department," Murphy said of the golf cart caper case.

 

The golf cart was stored on the north side of the pool deck at the facility, which is in an isolated area, Murphy said. "Mr.Blome told us he used an instrument to turn on the ignition and said hedrove it home," Murphy said. "He thought it took him about two hours and he traveled primarily on side roads to avoid detection, but he wason the shoulder of Highway 40 at one point."

 

There was also evidence of some "off-roading," as mud covered much of the cart, Murphy said.

 

St.Louis County were called to Blome's block the morning of June 15 for a report of a golf cart parked on a lawn. When the officer arrived, he sawthe city of Clayton moniker on the side and called Clayton police,Murphy said. "At that point, it had not been reported stolen," he said.

 

Clayton officers then reviewed the jail logs of prisoners released the night before and found Blome had listed a location near where the cart wasfound as his emergency contact, Murphy said. St. Louis County prosecutors charged Blome Wednesday with stealing a motor vehicle, a felony.

 

His bail has been set at $7,500. "Instead of just calling someone for a ride home, he ended up riding himself into a class C felony," Murphy said.

 

(http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-drives-stolen-golf-cart-from-clayton-to-lemay/article_a700cb5c-e8a0-11e1-854f-001a4bcf6878.html)