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A teenage bondage enthusiast is facing theft charges after she was caught stealing a “restraint system” from a Spencer’s store in a South Carolina mall, police report.

Quote:An employee told cops that she spotted Tayler Aughtman, 19, “approach the bondage section and put something in her purse” Tuesday afternoon.
After Aughtman left the store, she was confronted by workers, who “recovered an under the bed stretcher that was valued at $39.99,” according to a police report.
The Spencer’s web site reports that the restraint kit (seen below) includes four cuffs, four 60-inch restraint straps, and a 60-inch connector strap. The items can “Turn your bed (or the one in that hotel you like to visit) into a bondage playground, with you as the center of attention.” Additionally, the store notes, “Restraint straps fit quickly beneath the mattress or bed frame for an instant bondage bedroom! Restrain your partner's arms or legs from the sides or top and bottom of the bed.”
When a sheriff’s deputy asked Aughtman if she had “anything in her purse that was illegal,” the teen copped to stashing eight pairs of panties that she had taken from a Victoria’s Secret shop in the mall. The undergarments, valued at $84, were returned to the store, where a manager said that the business wanted Aughtman prosecuted for shoplifting.
Pictured above, Aughtman spent a night in jai

Quote:TWO thieves who spotted a car with its engine running, jumped in to go for a joy ride only to find an eight-year-old child in the back seat.

The boy’s mother had got out of the car at a post office she works in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, the Virginia-Pilot reported.

The opportunistic thieves took the Chevrolet Impala only to find the boy inside and told him his mother had wanted them to drive him to school and asked for the address.

They drove him almost a kilometre to Ghent Elementary School, dropped him off, and then drove away.

The mother discovered the car and her son missing after about 20 minutes and called the police.

“The mum ran into work to take care of a few things and left the car running with the music on,” Norfolk Police Department spokeswoman Melinda Wray told People. “Apparently, this was something she did regularly and had never had any problems.”

About 10 minutes later the boy was found at school and the car was found abandoned almost five kilometres from the school through the iPhone the mother had left in the car.

“All of our officers began looking for the car and this little boy,” says Wray. They found him “sitting in class as if nothing had happened,” she added.

When police interviewed the boy, he revealed that two men, whom he did not know, got into the car and told him they were supposed to take him to school.

“It was slightly odd to him. He was nervous because he had never seen these men before,” said Wray.

“The child, after he learnt the true details of what happened, he was obviously shaken. But the men were not trying to abduct him. They were just trying to steal the vehicle.”

Norfolk Police have yet to make any arrests over the theft of the vehicle and are also looking into whether the mother should face charges of child neglect.

Quote:A WOMAN motorist involved in a hit and run accident thought she had got away with the crime until her own car called emergency services.

Cathy Bernstein, 57, had driven off after crashing into the back of a Dodge Caravan, putting the female driver in hospital, in the city of Port St Lucie in St Lucie County, Florida.

But her car, a Ford Focus, had other ideas. St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office received an automated call from the vehicle’s emergency system Sync stating the owner had been involved in a crash and to press zero to speak with the occupants of the vehicle.

Bernstein denied she had been in a crash, stating that a car had only pulled out in front of her and did not hit her. However, the operator, was sceptical.

“Your car wouldn’t call us if someone pulled out in front of you unless there had been an accident,” she said in the recording obtained by WPBF

At the same time, police were investigating the hit and run. The van driver told police she had been hit by a black Ford car.

Police officers found the car at Bernstein’s home and saw that it had been damaged at the front, with silver paint from the van and an airbag had been deployed.

Bernstein finally admitted to police officers that she had been the driver of the hit and run and said that she was fleeing from another crash when she hit the van.