Watch Your Speed! Smithfield PD Unveils New Cruiser

SMITHFIELD - The Smithfield Police Department showed off its brand new police car to reporters earlier this afternoon. The car, a 1955 Chevrolet Bel-Air (left), is set to take to the streets of the 1 square mile town starting next week while the police department waits for it to be shipped from India. In the meantime, the streets of Smithfield will remain unpatrolled. Police chief Billy Bobson told us that the town's officers are happy to finally have a car again.

"Most of our officers are pretty out of shape," said Bobson. "Ever since we lost our last two cars, we've had to patrol the streets with scooters."

The police scooters such as the one on the right reached a maximum of seven miles per hour, which isn't anywhere near the speed that the department said it needed to keep the streets safe.

"We've had people going about 40 miles per hour right through the center of town," says Smithfield resident Damien Smith. "How are the cops supposed to catch maniacs like that if they're driving scooters?"

The new police car can reach speeds of up to 65 miles per hour. Though a major step forward for the police, it is still behind where the department used to be. We sat down with legendary Smithfield police officer Luigi, best known as the brother of video game character Mario.

"We used to have a Dodge Intrepid," said Officer Luigi (left). "But it got abducted by aliens a few years ago and they still haven't brought it back."

A warrant was issued for the arrest of the aliens, but police haven't been able to come across any leads to the aliens' whereabouts. The car (below) mysteriously disappeared a few years ago, and even landed a spot on popular tv show 'Unsolved Mysteries'. The case remained open for a few more months until sheriff Fred Abdalla solved it.

"The car just vanished one night," Abdalla said in a 2007 interview. "That was the same night that Donna Jackson told me she saw a UFO in Dillonvale. Does that sound like a coincidence?"

Despite the outstanding warrant and reward for the missing cruiser, chief Bobson told us that the department is looking forward to moving on.

"We just bought a new car," Bobson said. "We'd like to forget about the old one and forgive the aliens if they do come back."

The city council ordered the car off of ebay.com, after seeing the vehicle for sale from Mumbai. Here are some specifications taken directly from the ebay listing:

• Car good, really good car
• Car fast, really fast
• Car American
• Fast shipping, really fast shipping

"I don't know about the 'fast shipping' part," said Bobson. "When we called and asked whether it would be shipped via UPS or FedEx, they just said they were putting it on a raft and paddling it to the coast."