Real life Khiladi

[JollyReddy]

Q)What's the most ** up thing a family member of yours has done?

A)

My dad's a consummate prankster.

His crowning achievement, in college, has since become Illegal in two states.

• Step 1: He and several buddies go to a Cadillac dealership at 5:00 on a Friday. This was before credit cards and automatic banking, btw.

• Step 2: They wrote a check for the asking price of one of the shiny new models, and drove off with it.

• Step 3: They sell the car at a used Cadillac dealership across town.

• Step 4: The Used dealer calls the New dealer, and tells him that the car was sold with the dealer plates still on, and the pricetag still in the window.

• Step 5: New dealer figures that the check the kids wrote is going to bounce, so he calls the cops.

• Step 6: My dad and his friends spend the weekend in jail.

• Step 7: The banks open monday morning. The check doesn't bounce.

• Step 8: My dad and his friends sue the dealers and the state for wrongful imprisonment, and get a settlement of thousands of dollars more than the cost of the car.

Basically, the plan was to seem as shady as possible and get wrongfully arrested for it. They had the lawyer set up before they bought the car. Dad used his share to pay for his, and another friend's, tuition for the year.

The state passed legislation protecting themselves from this kind of thing within the month, and the state to the immediate north adopted the law as well, 30 years later.