Elderly woman celebrates 90th birthday handcuffed in patrol car, and she's happy about it

Monday, August 5, 2019
WILMINGTON, North Carolina -- Dorothy Maloney celebrated her 90th birthday by crossing an item off her bucket list: riding in the back of a patrol car in handcuffs.

Maloney told WWAY there was no other way she would have rather spent the day.
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"It's been on my bucket list to ride in the back of a police car handcuffed, so here I am," she said while riding in the rear of a patrol car.

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"I had an incident in New Jersey where we were hit by another car and we had to get to a doctor, and the policeman said, 'I'll put you in the back of the car,' and I said, 'Oh, it's been on my bucket list.'"

Her daughter-in-law, Lisa Maloney, facilitated the big event.
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"That's all she wanted in life was to ride, so I was like 'Let's make this happen,'" Lisa said.



She got the community to pitch in to make Maloney's dream come true.

Maloney said it's a ride that she'll never forget.
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