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Well technically, it did the trick because they wound up finding his shitty car.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, a 22-year-old Philadelphia man is in deep shit after police said he recently lied about his four-year-old nephew being inside his car that was allegedly stolen from him at gunpoint.
Marcus Fletcher told police that he was robbed of not only his 1995 Ford Escort that he used to deliver pizzas but also his wallet with ID and credit cards, a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and $30 cash Monday night. He then added the “fact” that his nephew was in the car, and that prompted police to conduct an “intense search,” one that ended when they found Fletcher’s car “parked, locked, and unoccupied in the 4300 block of North 16th Street.”
Dude In Philly Lied About A Kid Being Kidnapped So Cops Would Work Harder To Find His Stolen Car
What they didn’t find was Fletcher’s nephew, and it turned out that was because Fletcher made up that part of the story because “he had been robbed before and was unsatisfied with the resulting investigation” and “therefore he made up the aforementioned story to watch the police work harder.”
Fletcher was charged with making a false report, but odds are he’s the favorite to take home this year’s M.C. Escher Award for creativity.
