It was definitely dumb, but was it a crime?
That's what a judge in Douglas County will have to sort out after two men were charged with stealing their employers' truck.
According to the Douglas County Sentinel, Nicholas T. Rainwater, 23, and Bradley James Taylor, 24, appeared in Douglas County Magistrate Court last week to explain how their company's Chevy 3500 pickup truck disappeared while they were supposed to be driving it to a job site in Greenville, S.C. on July 31.
According to a Douglas County sheriff's investigator, the two men said they arrived in Greenville and decided to stop off for a little adult entertainment at a local strip club. While they were there — and running up a $600 tab on the company credit card — the truck was stolen, the Sentinel reported.
The only problem with their story, the investigator said, is that the two were found not in Greenville, but on Bolton Road in Atlanta. And the truck was nowhere to be found.
The men's attorney, Brian Howard, said he wasn't sure where the men had been either, but believed the truck had been recovered.
"When the facts are sorted out," Howard told the court, "you will see that it was a dumb decision but it wasn't an attempt to steal a truck."
The judge granted them bond at $10,000.
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