A chaotic vehicle-theft-gone-wrong unfolded in a flash on Sunday morning, the loud scene waking up some Sherman Oaks residents and totaling at least one uninvolved, parked car.
The Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded to an 8:37 a.m. call for a vehicle theft in the 13000 block of Cumpston Street, where an unidentified man driving a tow truck had just attempted to steal someone’s pickup truck.
Dramatic surveillance footage captured the moment that the suspect driver, behind the wheel of a red and black tow truck, came careening around the corner of a residential street with a stolen, weakly attached gray pickup truck swinging off the tow truck bed…