# Criminal captured with Forklift **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698 "2023-11-06T17:20:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/1 "2023-11-06T17:20:55Z")
I admire the employees quick thinking. This guy wasn’t going anywhere until the cops arrived. 😀 They raised crime busting to new heights. > **[Auto shop employee uses forklift to catch suspected thief in midair](https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/auto-shop-employee-uses-forklift-catch-suspected-thief-midair/6HPUSR76CRF3PPHPZLT7W522S4/)** > > “Wonderful, that is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard,” the 911 dispatcher said. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/2 "2023-11-06T18:06:54Z")
“Boy, these things come in handy all the time!” ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/3 "2023-11-06T19:26:35Z")
I’d like to ‘prehumously’ nominate him for a Darwin award. No he didn’t do anything to take himself out of the gene pool…_this time_ but he was attempting to steal (as I originally saw it reported) a car from a junk yard. Ummm, junked cars tend to not run too well. Don’t know if the picture if of the car in question or just an example of one for the photo op but it doesn’t even have front wheels on it; he’s not going far. Even assuming he was only attempting to steal radios it took more than a fraction of a second for that forklift to come over & raise the car up 20’. While I wouldn’t jump from 20’ it was on the ground when it was raised. Surely he could have jumped from a foot or two up & ran off. I have no doubt this dumbshit has a future Darwin award in him & I just want to get him on their radar early. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/4 "2023-11-06T20:37:34Z")
Convenient for the workers that the bad guy didn’t have a pistol amongst his other “criminal tools”. But I do admire quick thinking and vigilantism that doesn’t involve violence. If I was the Boss they’d all get lunch on me for a week or three. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/5 "2023-11-06T21:11:18Z")
I saw that on McGyver. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/6 "2023-11-06T21:33:43Z")
From the news article: > Workers believed the man, later identified as 26-year-old Alexander Funk, was committing his third break-in. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l4nOHdUntyM/hqdefault.jpg "george clinton- we got the funk") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4nOHdUntyM) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/7 "2023-11-06T23:10:54Z")
If I was to guess Mr. Funk’s mood about now, I’d say it’s more funk than funky. At least he was smart enough not to try to jump out of the rising car at too great a height and break something including maybe his skull. So we can say he made one good decision that fateful day. But probably not even two. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-captured-with-forklift/992698/8 "2023-11-06T23:13:50Z")
[He tried to kill me with a forklift](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4tYtbMHpE)