By Linda Spice
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Copyright 2007 Journal Sentinel Inc.
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — A Milwaukee man cracked up his girlfriend’s 2006 Mini Cooper when he hit a curb, but the tale he told her about being carjacked by two black men at gunpoint made her hit the wall - literally.
Police said Wednesday that the man, 25, hit a curb with the small silver car near N. 4th and W. Court streets about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday before he fled the scene and went to a bar where his girlfriend, 25, of Oak Creek was waiting.
“He tells her this tale. ‘Someone had a handgun. They made me get out. They took the car.’ He said he’s carjacked. She punches the wall (in anger) with her fist and injures herself badly, so badly they had to call an ambulance,” Milwaukee police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said Wednesday.
What the man perhaps didn’t realize was that the accident was witnessed by an ambulance crew near the crash scene.
And what the man certainly didn’t anticipate was that that same ambulance crew would respond to take care of his girlfriend after she punched the wall.
Milwaukee police responded to take a report on the purported carjacking.
“The police are standing there. He’s going on and on with the story,” Schwartz said.
The ambulance crew, hearing all of this, knew otherwise.
Police arrested the man on charges of obstructing because he lied about what happened, Schwartz said.
Officers recovered the woman’s vehicle in the area where her boyfriend had hit the curb.