Police searching for shirtless, bleeding man who stole replica Indy 500 pace car

The job of driving an Indy 500 pace car, which leads the warm-up laps prior to the race and, if needed, sets the speed at which officials wish to start the race, has been given to celebrities from Donald Trump to Guy Fieri to Jim Harbaugh. Wednesday night, the job fell to an as yet nameless volunteer.

At 11:30 p.m., 15 minutes after lock-up, Bill Estes Chevrolet in Indianapolis' north side called the authorities to report that the vehicle had been stolen right out of their show room and driven straight through a glass display window.

The thief probably thought it would look something like this, but when a police K-9 unit discovered a t-shirt "with evidence that the thief was injured in the crash," according to 6 ABC in Indianapolis, it was clear that a heist did not go as cooly as the man had hoped it would.

It only took a few miles of driving in what had to be a car covered in glass shards for the thief to abandon his prize. The Boone Country Sheriffs office discovered the car and reported that it had been totaled. An injured, shirtless man had also been knocking on local doors to seek help.