Ind. officer gets boot for trying to pick up babes in squad car

While most of our posts on foolishly criminal behavior focuses on inept crooks, they sadly don't have a monopoly on dumbness. That, tragically, extends to members of law enforcement at times, as well. The Associated Press gives us this bit, out of Muncie, Indiana.

Prosecutors have filed two misdemeanor charges against a former police officer who authorities say crashed a squad car while showing off for three female college students riding with him.

Lyons, a six-year veteran of the police force, resigned this month after being suspended over the Aug. 28 crash along a street outside a Ball State University residence hall complex.

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