Let’s say you’re a thief looking to steal a car. You probably don’t want to be seen, so you wouldn’t want to commit the crime in broad daylight. And competent reporters are usually on the lookout for unusual things, so stealing a car from a newspaper’s parking lot might be a bad idea. And since you can’t drive a stick shift, you’ll swipe an automatic. Right?

Not if you’re this hotshot wannabe bandit in Barton.

Yesterday afternoon, someone stole Barton Chronicle reporter Paul Lefebvre’s SUV from the office’s parking lot — in broad daylight, as Lefebvre looked on:

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Tyler Machado was the digital media manager at Seven Days. He mostly worked behind the scenes making sure the website, email newsletters and social media feeds stayed in tip-top shape.