Dallas tow truck driver Fidel Retana Jr. apparently didn’t look inside the illegally parked car he hooked up and hauled away from a fire lane.

It wasn’t until he stopped a short time later to check the hookups that he noticed a 7-year-old boy sleeping in the car. Retana high tailed it back to the fire lane where the child’s panicked parents watched him hurriedly unhook the car and flee.

Dallas police pulled Retana over a short time later and arrested him on child endangerment charges, but police said they expect to drop the charges because the tow truck driver did not intend to take the child.

“I hate the way towing people run the business," the boy’s father said.

- Investigators in Magnolia, Ark., say it wasn't the fried chicken in Savalas Vantoli Stewart's car that gave off a funky smell.

Instead, officers who pulled over Stewart on Friday night say they found a side dish of marijuana hidden in a recently purchased box of chicken.

Police say officers smelled marijuana coming from the car and found it after Stewart consented to a search. Officers say they also found several Ecstasy pills in Stewart's pockets.

The 33-year-old man now faces a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge and felony drug possession charge.

- And this one from suburban Detroit:

Police in Commerce Township said a man dressed as a woman repeatedly crashed his car into a lingerie store that refused to hire him.

Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe says Jeremy McIntosh, 27, was arrested Saturday outside Intimate Ideas. Damage to the store was estimated at $3,000.

McCabe says McIntosh was wearing "facial makeup, lipstick, blue Capri pants, red flip-flops, a flowery blouse and a matching flowery women's bra."

McIntosh told deputies he is homeless and wanted to go to jail because he had nowhere else to go.