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  • In the trailer, we see him as a kid, joy-riding in and wrecking a three-hundred year old Corvette and then speaking up defiantly to the cop who's chased him down.

    It's Kirk the Explorer not Kirk the Rebel 2009

  • Send a community organizer to do the work of a president ... and all you get is an incompetent meddler insulting local police (Cambridge), joy-riding Air Force 1, and fiddling around with the UN.

    Obama to chair summit meeting of U.N. Security Council 2009

  • I'm aware of cases that were classified as aggravated felonies that included driving without a license when the person was on parole, medical benefits fraud, and multiple counts of joy-riding.

    Bill Ong Hing: Infusing the Deportation System With Restorative Justice Bill Ong Hing 2011

  • Lance Corporal Clegg spent years in prison only for it to be found it could not be proved to be his bullet that killed the joy-riding victim (he was under much greater threat than Smellie).

    G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • In the trailer, we see him as a kid, joy-riding in and wrecking a three-hundred year old Corvette and then speaking up defiantly to the cop who's chased him down.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Some agency personnel thought Downey and Fecteau must have been joy-riding, according to an unclassified study, but in fact they were ordered on to the flight.

    CIA offers its history lessons in film 2010

  • A hot-headed police officer pursuing a bunch of criminal youth who were joy-riding in a stolen vehicle.

    Criminals Turned Into "Victims" « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • “The Coast Guard captain was on duty, but the other two were only joy-riding,” he wrote.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Some agency personnel thought Downey and Fecteau must have been joy-riding, according to an unclassified study, but in fact they were ordered on to the flight.

    CIA offers its history lessons in film 2010

  • Some agency personnel thought Downey and Fecteau must have been joy-riding, according to an unclassified study, but in fact they were ordered on to the flight.

    CIA offers its history lessons in film 2010

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