Man, 77, charged with stealing ambulance: 'I needed a ride'
(MCT) — A 77-year-old man told police he stole an ambulance from MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn because he had just left the hospital and "needed to get home," authorities say.
Officers caught up with John Neal just before midnight Tuesday on the South Side of Chicago, about 10 miles from the hospital and two miles from his home in the 6800 block of South Claremont Avenue, according to a police report.
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