Alan Heuss was sitting in his BMW outside a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant, finishing up a cell phone conversation when a young man yanked open the passenger door, shoved a gun in his face and ordered him to get out, he told the Daily News Sunday.
The thief and two other men fled with his car, cash and cell phone late Thursday. Heuss called the cops from the nearby restaurant and stayed inside with friends to drown his sorrows.
That's when one of Heuss' buddies hatched a scheme to lure the bad guys into the open.
"My friend at the restaurant said, 'So, Alan, why don't I text them and pretend I'm a girl?' I said 'Yeah! And [say] you have cocaine too!'" Heuss said.
As luck would have it, one of Heuss' female friends was also calling his mobile number and her picture was appearing on the stolen cell phone screen.
Heuss went home, but his friends knew the crooks had taken the bait when they got a text.
They contacted Columbus police, got advice on how to reply, and the bad guys ended up disclosing their address. The three men - caught in the stolen vehicle - are suspects in a series of car thefts, cops told Columbus news station TV10. Heuss got his car back Friday.
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It doesn't get any better than that :lol:.
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