Play D'oh -- Florida Man Uses Putty to Fix Cars

   PlayDoh can be a good deal of fun. As small children you use it to make flowers, horses, eat and create gigantic messes by combining all of the colors into one large mass of stomach-turning brown. As young adults you take that brown mess and use it oh so cleverly to make mock human waste and an assortment of crude genitalia and find it hilarious. As an adult you buy it for your friends with small children, help open up all the packaging and make a few fun things with the kids and then wash your hands and go home. (Sorry Ann and Randy!)

Nicholas Johnson used PlayDoh to fix the
cars of unwitting customers he met in parking
lots at the mall.

In Florida, though, you use PlayDoh to make a little money by committing fraud. Nicholas Johnson, 33, of Port Richey Florida decided to use Play Doh and a little bit of wax instead of Bondo when making auto body repairs to the cars of unsuspecting customers. Claiming he'd "fixed" the damage and flush with the cash Johnson would then disappear. That is until Florida detectives caught up with Johnson and charged him with conspiracy to commit fraud.

How did Johnson find his customers/victims? Simple! Police say he drove around shopping malls and neighborhoods looking for cards in need to body work and just approached people out of the blue offering his services -- this is Florida after all. As a general note to anyone reading this in Florida this is not a good method of finding not just auto-body repairers but gynecologists (true story!), banking officials and nannies.