MIAMI (UPI) -- An unidentified woman using a stolen U-Haul led police on a high-speed chase through south Florida Wednesday before eventually being arrested.
In what police have termed a crime of opportunity, the woman leapt into a U-Haul truck in which the owner had left the keys, and led both police and TV helicopters on a wild chase for nearly an hour, the Miami Herald said.
For 42 minutes, the woman smashed into onlookers' cars and patrol cars in her desperate attempt to escape, all in view of trailing police and media.
After being featured live on the local news -- and even chased by the man from whom she stole the truck -- the woman had to abandon the truck because the left front tire blew out.
She fled into a supermarket, where police quickly took her into custody, the newspaper said.
Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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