02 Jan Pretty good time ambulance girl

From reporter Erin Guy’s opening declaration that she’s “never seen anything like this before,” through her breathless retracing of hard-to-see tire tracks “right here in this yard,” and her apparent inability to pronounce “‘mergency vehicle,” this story, from television station KOCO-5 in Oklahoma City, captures 21st century North American newsgathering with delicious acuity.

But the 10-second clip of putative ambulance thief Wendy Jones, at 1:02 into the story, can have few equals in the annals of perp walks. Yes, Ms. Jones is shackled.

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