Each day this week we've been bringing you advice as part of Auto Trader's Safety Week. Today we round off the proceedings with a collection of car crime-related stories (and a video) from around the world.

Don't forget to come back next Friday for another helping of strange auto-related goings-on.

Got any stories you think we should feature in the Weird World of Wheels? Send them to us at editorial@autotrader.co.uk.

This week

Bowling for superintendent

To go on the rob takes nerve. Or stupidity. While you're in the stupidity ballpark, why not try and up the ante by attempting to make your getaway in a police car?

Plain clothes officers in an unmarked police car were called to a train station car park in Hertfordshire. A thief who'd made off with £7,000 of takings from a bowling alley had been spotted in the area.

Before they could say 'evenin' all', the coppers were delighted to find said suspect climbing into the back of their car, asking them to drive away.

Before he had the chance to realise his mistake, the officers locked the doors, turned round and said: "You're nicked".

One policeman later said: "The look on his face was priceless."

The rob Ford files

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

A (false) rumour posted on a website claimed the chips in Ford radios could be fitted into digital TV receivers to get free Sky channels.

Spotting a business opportunity, thieves in Cardiff embarked on a three-day crime spree, smashing their way into 205 Fords to get their hands on the radios.

South Wales Chief Superintendent Bob Evans: "We have spoken to Ford and the satellite providers and conclude this is nothing more than an urban myth."

The internet is still a reliable source of information, though. Just want to point that out.

Drive-in crime clinic

Tired of waiting for forensic police to come and dust your car for prints? Help is at hand.

Victims of car crime in Mansfield can now take their motors into a drive-in forensic crime lab.

Scenes of crime officers will give your car a good going over, checking for fingerprints and DNA evidence.

Chief Superintendent Nick Holmes said: "This is about offering victims a choice. Before, they could only have a home visit by a forensic officer or have their car taken away to a garage for examination."

The Home Office-funded lab has found evidence in seven out of the 19 vehicles tested.

Video: Super trooper

This roadside video, filmed from the dash-mounted camera of a police car in the US, speaks for itself. Another reason why working as a traffic cop is a dangerous profession…

I'd like to point out everybody in the video survived...

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