Malcom Milliones had only one thought as he jumped onto a car that a thief was driving away: “Get my son out.”
The whole thing began when Milliones had pulled up to the gas station to pump gas for his car. “I was parked here. My fiancée pulled up directly behind me bumper to bumper,” he said.
As he pumped gas, his fiancée went inside the store, and that’s when a teenaged thief jumped into the SUV and drove off with it.
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“I’m kind of like this, hopping with it and running with it,” he said, describing how he managed to hang on to the moving car for nearly a quarter of a mile.
“We went from here all the way around the parking lot,” he continued. He was banging on the window the whole time, trying to let the thief know that his son was inside.
“My son took that opportunity to jump out and he fell out like right here at the entrance to the Popeye’s,” he said. Though his son was okay after the jump, Milliones was later thrown from the car and suffered a broken arm, bruised toe and other injuries.
Milliones said that it was the third car theft in the area for them, and they were fed up with it. “It’s gotten to the point now where we’re talking about moving,” he said.
The police are working on tracking down the thieves and helping Milliones get his SUV back. He said that he hopes he can get his car back soon, because its loss has been a hardship on the family.