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Man gets 20 months in prison for fake ambulance stunt

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Josée Paquet

Phillip Lemonheigh, a 60-year-old man from Britain, has just been sentenced to 20 months in prison for impersonating an ambulance driver and slapping stickers and sirens on his Renault wagon to make it look like an emergency vehicle, the Guardian reports.

Lemonheigh was also caught driving at 73 mph (117.5 km/h) in a 50 mph (80 km/h) zone and running a red light with a blue light flashing on his car... all the while without a driver's licence.

The man even gave the police a fake name upon his arrest. He told them he was driving his wife to the hospital, but since the hospital was in the opposite direction, he had to admit he was just running errands for her.

Josée Paquet
Josée Paquet
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