Michael Baker, a 20-year-old coal miner of Mayking, Kentucky, was arrested on Monday after he illegally siphoned gas from the tank of a parked police cruiser and then posted a photo of the act on Facebook.In the photo, Baker is crouching by the police car with a red gas can, smiling and flashing his middle finger at the camera. His girlfriend, Joann Sandelin, was snapping the picture."We was just standing there and thought it would be funny to take a picture and then post it on Facebook," said Baker to WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky.
He maintained that the crime was committed in jest.Sandelin agreed. "Yeah, we're sorry, but it was just a joke," she said. "I mean, if we was going to steal gas, we wouldn't put it nationwide on Facebook. We don't steal anyway, but we're sorry." Baker himself did not apologize."I got a little bit of gas," he said.
