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It was an ordinary Wednesday afternoon in December of 1979, when an employee at a shopping center in New Jersey, called the police to report a pair of suspicious vehicles in the parking lot.

There was nothing specifically suspicious about them, I don't think.

Photos of the vehicles show they were perfectly ordinary cars.

And the cashier who called the police couldn't possibly have known that one of those cars had been reported stolen in Connecticut.

But something felt off, so an officer was sent out to take a look.

Through the windows, the officer could see a teenage boy asleep in the backseat of the station wagon.

A middle-aged woman was slumped over, asleep in the driver's seat.

And maybe they could have been sent on their way with just a warning not to nap in department store parking lots.

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