Photo: TulsaWorld.com
As one recent Pepsi slogan put it so eloquently, “Live for now.” That’s exactly what one Tulsa man did after a fight with his girlfriend, when he decided he must do whatever he could to find her, even if that meant stealing a tractor-trailer rig.
Spoiler alert: he didn’t find her, but the police did catch him. So there’s that for his happy ending, which turned out to be anything but.
Steven Hart, 45, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been slapped with a string of charges after stealing a Pepsi truck in what he must have thought was a romantic attempt to find his girlfriend and for trying to escape from custody twice. The girlfriend is among the people who called 911 to report the truck being stolen, so it doesn’t look like she was in a mood to be found.
Tulsa World reports that Hart saw the truck being parked outside a business and the driver in the back, unloading soda. The official line on the exact circumstances is hazy, but whatever fight Hart had with his girlfriend determined him to jump inside the cabin of the truck and drive off. He would later tell the police that he wanted to get to the airport asap, but his GF claims he was out looking for her.
The driver of the truck (the rightful driver, that is) felt the rig move and barely had time to jump out of it. He called 911, but so did the girlfriend – and police followed the trail of soda that Hart left behind him, as the doors of the rig were wide open.
“The back of the truck was still open, and the lift was down,” Tulsa Police Officer Jeanne Pierce explains. “One officer said he was following the trail of soda.”
Officers caught up with the truck after a brief pursuit, when Hart became stuck in traffic. They tried to get inside the cabin but Hart fled on foot, leaving the rig in gear. It rolled forward and crashed into an empty school bus before coming to a stop.
Police eventually caught Hart and brought him in, but he tried to escape from custody 2 more times while he was being processed. Both attempts were unsuccessful and he’s been charged with larceny of an automobile, eluding police, traffic violations and one attempt of escaping a county jail.
Steven Hart, 45, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been slapped with a string of charges after stealing a Pepsi truck in what he must have thought was a romantic attempt to find his girlfriend and for trying to escape from custody twice. The girlfriend is among the people who called 911 to report the truck being stolen, so it doesn’t look like she was in a mood to be found.
Tulsa World reports that Hart saw the truck being parked outside a business and the driver in the back, unloading soda. The official line on the exact circumstances is hazy, but whatever fight Hart had with his girlfriend determined him to jump inside the cabin of the truck and drive off. He would later tell the police that he wanted to get to the airport asap, but his GF claims he was out looking for her.
The driver of the truck (the rightful driver, that is) felt the rig move and barely had time to jump out of it. He called 911, but so did the girlfriend – and police followed the trail of soda that Hart left behind him, as the doors of the rig were wide open.
“The back of the truck was still open, and the lift was down,” Tulsa Police Officer Jeanne Pierce explains. “One officer said he was following the trail of soda.”
Officers caught up with the truck after a brief pursuit, when Hart became stuck in traffic. They tried to get inside the cabin but Hart fled on foot, leaving the rig in gear. It rolled forward and crashed into an empty school bus before coming to a stop.
Police eventually caught Hart and brought him in, but he tried to escape from custody 2 more times while he was being processed. Both attempts were unsuccessful and he’s been charged with larceny of an automobile, eluding police, traffic violations and one attempt of escaping a county jail.
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