Hit and Run

Milwaukee has been plagued for the last year or more with an epidemic of car thefts and car jackings (which is just another reason not to live in Milwaukee, but I digress).  So yesterday, Sarah’s friend (the next door neighbor) was at the Bayshore Town Center with her sister shopping when they got rear-ended.  It was apparently and African American girl driving with a guy in the passenger seat.  Right away they pulled over and were on the phone to the police.  They stayed in the car to call, and surprisingly, the car that hit them drove away. 

That is one of the “techniques” the news has been reporting is being used to steal cars.  Rear-end someone, and when they get out to assess the damage, the person in the passenger seat of the car of the offending vehicle jumps out, jumps into the driver’s seat of the car that was hit, and both cars take off.  Sounds like they might have gotten scared off when Brit didn’t get out of the car.  I think she got lucky.  Hopefully Sarah learns a lesson from this.