"This is how we do it in Baltimore"

It looks like I'm on an all-Baltimore run this week, but this item from the Sun's police blotter is too good to pass up:

Carjacking // A 36-year-old motorist from Calvert County was driving a white 1995 Toyota in the 2200 block of N. Fulton Ave. about 3 a.m. Friday when he stopped two men and asked for directions. The men agreed, if the motorist would give them a ride to the 2800 block of Windsor Ave. There, one displayed what appeared to be a handgun and robbed the driver of $2,000, a watch and a gold ring before both men forced him from the vehicle. One man told the victim, "This is how we do it in Baltimore." The vehicle had tags M950298.

2200 N. Fulton is right at Pennsylvania Ave. south of Mondawmin, in a very rough part of town. If the boarded-up houses aren't enough of a clue that you're in sketchville, a basic sense of self-preservation should prevent a thinking motorist from letting any stranger in any neighborhood from getting into their car, let alone two men at 3 a.m. Of course, the motorist wasn't thinking, since there is only one reason to be on the West Side at 3 a.m. if you don't live there.

Lost? No. Strung out? Probably.

Some people don't deserve to keep their cars for sheer stupidity.