Tennessee Man Allegedly Got Drunk, Stole Bobcat 'To Hide His Nudity'

[marmar]

Drunks make for awful drivers and worse thieves. They're pretty good at dumb excuses, though.

Joseph Michael Hall, a 19-year-old Tennessee man, was arrested Sunday and charged with felony theft and a short list of misdemeanors after he allegedly got drunk and stole a Bobcat front-loading utility vehicle from a Knoxville-area nursery.

But according to an arrest warrant obtained by the Knoxville News Sentinel, it was all a case of criminal cover-up.

"Mr. Hall stated that he was drunk and that he was trying to hide his nudity by taking the Bobcat," the warrant stated. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/joseph-michael-hall-drunk-bobcat-naked_n_3706757.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

[In_The_Wind]

1. Hahahaha

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Before you all even get started, let me nip this in the bud. I was in KENTUCKY at the time!!!

[femmocrat]

3. Am I the only one who thought this was about a big cat?

[Locut0s]

4. *Raises hand*... Now THAT would have been funny :D nt

[pinboy3niner]

6. I was thinking the guy's in the ICU with some VERY unfortunate injuries

[Ron Obvious]

7. Same Here!

It made for an arresting mental image.

[OriginalGeek]

8. Nope

I thought the headline meant he got caught banging a bobcat and his story was that he was just holding it there to cover up...

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. I thought i TOLD you that I was in Kentucky at the time!!!!!

[OriginalGeek]

12. Hah! I have no doubt

you could reach across the border between Kentucky and Tennessee with your mighty...ummm...cat pole?

[LWolf]

13. Nope.

I'm still visualizing him using a bobcat to hide his nudity.

[davidpdx]

5. That sounded like a great plan

I don't know how it could have gone wrong.

[Orrex]

9. I thought this was about Goldthwaite

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. The thread title made me imagine a naked guy holding a bobcat

over his naughty bits "to hide his nudity," which also struck me as a really terrible idea, since said bobcat would probably waste no time shredding the guy's junk.

Come to find out it's just a vehicle that he stole. The story isn't nearly as interesting with that kind of bobcat.