Whoops! Man drives off in lookalike car pressconnects.com | 08/05/05 | News Story
pressconnects.com | 08/05/05 | News Story: "Eighty-seven-year-old Jesse T. Ross of Port Crane is no criminal, but police were on the lookout for the four-door Chrysler New Yorker he was driving Wednesday morning.




Jesse Ross, 87, of Port Crane, drove home a champagne colored, 1991 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue after running an errand. Unfortunately, he didn't notice it wasn't his. Ross owns a '93 version of the same car.

THOMAS LA BARBERA / Press & Sun-Bulletin


The New Yorker looked like his car. When he placed the key in the ignition, the engine turned over just as it did in his car. Problem was, it wasn't his car. And by the time Ross discovered the error, police already had been called by 50-year-old James F. Smith of South Street, Port Crane, the anxious owner of a missing Chrysler New Yorker.
'I got into the vehicle accidentally. The key worked. It was just like mine, leather interior and power windows,' Ross said. "
- posted by Jim @ 4:45 AM