AMBULANCE THIEF "NEEDED A RIDE HOME"

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A KENTUCKY man told Cops he stole an ambulance from outside a hospital because he: "needed a ride home."
Shane Hale was suprisingly enough heavily intoxicated when he nabbed the vehicle from outside the Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center in central Kentucky.
The embarrassed crew told Cops they'd left the vehicle for just a few minutes, but left the keys in the ignition when he struck. 
Dept. Sgt. Randy Napier said:"They came back to get the ambulance, and it was gone."

Driving erratically he was spotted on a highway by off-duty State Police Detective Chris Fugate.
Napier added: "The ambulance came up on a vehicle somewhere on Highway 15 at a high rate of speed and had to hit its brakes."

Fugate then turned around and followed him, flashing his headlights and motioning for him pull over, which he eventually did outside a church.
Napier said: "He was highly intoxicated. He wouldn't say how much he'd been drinking. He did admit he'd smoked some marijuana."
Telling cops he was only borrowing the ambulance because he needed a ride home:"He stated that he was going to tell them in the morning where the ambulance was located," added Napier.
He has now been charged with theft by unlawful taking, operating a motor vehicle under the influence, criminal mischief and driving DUI on a suspended license and is being held on a $40,000 cash bond