New Jersey car prang woman blames carjacking

A New Jersey woman pulled out a couple of nice excuses after she wrapped her car around a tree - first claiming the mishap was provoked by a carjacking, then that she'd actually been distracted while performing a "sex act"* on some bloke she'd picked up. Police mugshot of Sarah Blasse According to AP, 23-year-old Sarah Blasse …

[Ken 16]

after they'd "swiped a laptop"?

Is that another euphemism? She was swiping her boyfriends laptop then gave him a carjacking when they both unexpectedly got more wood than they'd planned on...

[Anonymous Coward]

"she'd actually been distracted while performing a "sex act"*"

Was she rear ended, I can't imagine it was a face on incident.

[SlabMan]

New meaning

It could also give a new meaning to the phrase, 'swiping a laptop'.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Bootnote

That would have been one very horrified carjacker ...

Me coat... The one with the VERY BIG beer goggles in the pocket

[Jolyon]

Couldn't see the trees

for the wood?

[James Hughes 1]

Hmm

I guess the police were not convinced by the sex act story either. And having looked at the picture, you can see why....

[Steve 26]

Warning next time please

Ye gods, that gave me a fright, what did she look like *before* the car crash?

[Lloyd]

Pleas warn people

before printing disturbing images like those included in the article, I've just had to fight to keep my lunch down.

[Disco-Legend-Zeke]

That Pic Is Truly NSFA...

...not safe for anyone.

[Eddy Ito]

Amen

We all learned a few months back. We're never asking for pics again.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/florida_crash/

[Intractable Potsherd]

I'm not usually one to make comment ...

... on someone's appearance, but I am forced to wonder at the desperation of the "boyfriend". Even allowing for the notoriously awful quality of police mug-shots, this one would come last in a beauty contest for wart-hogs!

[Anonymous Coward]

She should have remembered

mirror, signal, manoeuvre

[Jolyon]

Mirror?

I think not.

[Beau]

Get it right then!

It's Mirror, Signal, Mirror, Maneuver.

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought it was

Manoeuvre, Mirror, sware at the person you just cut up because they are being rude and beeping there horn at you.

[Anonymous Coward]

No ...

No - in this case it seems to have been Mirror, Signal, Man-over

[Paul 131]

why is this news?

are you so bored on Friday afternoon that you publish dribble of this magnitude... who the f*ck cares!

[Brian 59]

Re:why is this news? → #

Take it you're a n008 to this site then Paul. There's always one.

[fred #257]

IT angle?

Oh, of course, the laptop.

I'm a bit slow on Mondays...

[smudge]

Important detail missing!

Was her boyfriend's guide dog OK?

[IR]

technically

jacking someone off in a car is carjacking

[Anonymous Coward]

Serves you right..

... to all you lot who normally chorus: "jpegs or it didn't happen"

;-)

[Destroy All Monsters]

Why did I think of Mount Rushmore when seeing that mugshot?

Bizarre.

[Anonymous Coward]

mount...

I'd rather Mount Rushmore...

[Anonymous Coward]

Paris

Because....

[Mike Moyle]

So...

Was that a "car prang" or a "car prong"/

Y'know... we have the "Evil Bill" and "Evil Steve" icons... Could Ms Blasse be icon-ized as the "Anti-Paris"/

[Anonymous John]

"a quick Gillian Taylforth"

Sorry I'm late darling. I got caught in a ^H^H^H^H^Htaylf tailback on the M4.,

[Combat Wombat]

Ow

My Eyes ! the Googles ! they do nothink!

Dear god... could be he was just trying to get away from the ham beast who was molesting him..

[Anonymous Coward]

genetically inferior

imo generally 2 types of criminal - the clever ones who think they can get away with it; and the idiots, who cant.

[Joe User]

No accounting for taste

Either that, or he was blind.

[Anonymous John]

Playmobil reconstruction please.

They're all better looking.

[Paul 75]

Safety first

With a face like that, she CAN'T have been wearing a seatbelt!

[JimmyPage]

What a munter !

'nuff said

[frank ly]

This Modern World

"..charges including " ... hindering apprehension"."

So it's illegal to run away and you get additional charges for it? Surely there are long standing historical precedents for the folk-tradition of running away from the authorities after committing a crime. It's part of our heritage.

[JohnG]

Failure to stop

In the UK this would be "failure to stop when required to do so by a constable in uniform".

Surely this is common sense. For example, if the cops try to stop you for some traffic offence but you lead them on a hour long chase, you would have to expect different penalties than if you had stopped promptly and cooperated.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh my God...

Why isn't there a Sick-Bag icon?

[Graham Bartlett]

@Ex-IT

There's the spod with the glasses icon. Boyf must need a new prescription. Or there's the troll - disturbing similarity to the CGI creature in LotR. Or perhaps more relevantly, there's the alien - "there is an extra-terrestrial explanation for all of this".

I can see it now. "It was horrible. I was beamed up to the alien spaceship and they performed all manner of degrading experiments on me. I could deal with that. But then they beamed me back next to this *thing* which wanted sex with me. Please doctor, can you help me?"

[Sceptical Bastard]

Darwin ...

... obviously had the right of it.