You know the way it usually works: A person applies for a job, gets an interview, is hired, and then starts work. Here are two stories about people who decided they could skip key parts in that process and go right to work.
Police in Spain have arrested a man who dressed up as a police officer and directed traffic for about an hour, according to a local newspaper.
The man entered a police station where he broke into a locker and stole a uniform.
He greeted other officers as he left the station, went on “patrol,” and directed traffic in the town’s square.
His “bizarre gestures” while directing traffic tipped other officers off.
He’s charged with impersonating a police officer. As far as the police know, it was this man’s first arrest for pretending to be one in their ranks.
But a man in Queens, NY, with a long history of impersonating transit workers, has been arrested again.
He had a similar M-O: Somehow, he got a transit worker’s uniform and was arrested when he crossed into a restricted area of a train station.
Darius McCollum’s arrest is the 24th time he’s been picked up in and around New York’s trains and buses since the early 1980s.
When he was 15, McCollum drove an E train safely through lower Manhattan.
This time, he was charged with criminal impersonation, criminal trespass and possession of burglary tools.
