An 80-year-old South Euclid woman told me she was walking in her driveway, when two teenage girls walked up to her and sprang a story on her about a so-called high school project.
Police reports showed the girls claimed they were doing a science project on "lock picking" and "shapes of keys" and they needed to see her keys.
The woman told them to leave and they went to another house down the street with the same story and there are other police reports detailing the same M.O.
South Euclid Police Chief Kevin Nietert told me the girls knocked on several doors on different ends of town with the same story.
During their story one of the girls asks for a glass of water, during that distraction the other girl takes the car key off the key ring.
While several people didn't believe them and called police, one woman did.
The girls came back later and used the key to steal her car.
No arrests have been made.
