Let the ambulance-chasing jokes begin! A Stanford law student has pled no contest to charges that she stole an ambulance and drunk-drove it around town last October. Julia Powell, through her lawyer, claims it was an unfortunate combination of alcohol and the painkillers she was taking for shin splints. Shin splints? Are they giving people Ambien for that these days?

....and we've always wondered why this doesn't happen more often. A Vallejo man eluding capture on murder charges stole a US Marshals' waiting van to make his getaway in Oakland. They're still looking for him.

And finally, three folks tried to flee the scene of an accident when they ran a red light and slammed into an AC Transit bus this morning in Oakland. A parole officer on the scene for an unrelated matter saw them, though, and successfully chased down two of them. We're a little disappointed no one tried to steal their abandoned car (or the AC Transit bus, for that matter).

Picture of the hit and run from CBS 5.