Pawlenty steals Sharky Laguna's tricked-out ride from Everclear

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OK, so there's no real wrongdoing here, least of all by Tim Pawlenty; it sounds like it was all a mixup. But damned if this article doesn't read like a Carl Hiaasen novel. Scroll to near the bottom of this political roundup story for this piece.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/26/BA4212IJ74.DTL&tsp=1

When Sharky Laguana heard from an employee of his San Francisco company, Bandago, that one of his $65,000 rental tour vans had disappeared Sunday in Allentown, Pa., he called police. Officers put out an all points bulletin.

Imagine Laguana's surprise when he found out the next day that Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is on John McCain's short list for vice president, was riding around in the "stolen" van all day campaigning for the Republican presidential nominee-to-be.
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The man in the blue suit was a police officer, assigned to Pawlenty, who was supposed to pick up a rental at the hotel - but he wound up at the wrong Holiday Inn picking up the keys to the wrong vehicle.

"The driver said it was a little weird that there were a couple beers in the van when he picked it up," Laguana said.

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