Legal Juice

This gent certainly had the element of surprise on his side. The wannabe car thief was not prepared for this contingency [per The Daily Telegraph] ...

Russell Stuart, 51, was asleep in his home in Dymchurch, Kent, when he heard his Peugeot 405 being started up in his driveway in the early hours of the morning.

He leapt out of bed and raced out of his front door before opening the passenger door and getting in alongside the would-be thief.

The father of two said the man flung the door open and ran off into the night as soon as he spotted "a big naked bloke" sitting next to him.

He said: "I just got out of bed and ran to my car, opened the passenger door and sat down. "I said to him 'All right mate - where are we going then?' and he just jumped out of the car and legged it."

Mr Stuart, a technician at the Dungeness power station, said: "I don't know what the guy must have thought when a large naked bloke got in the car next to him, but when your car is being stolen you don't think about it, you just react. "I'll never forget the look on his face, though, it was a peach."