The Starbucks skater story is almost as absurd as the ninja warrior intruder story.
Here we have ?? California adolescent male skaters, who are out and about after 9PM in a public parking lot, who are looking to perform a prank. There must be over 20 cars parked at Starbucks.
YET the skaters decide to pick JA car – a white car chosen to avoid detection- which is parked near the opening of Starbucks. Pranksters generally would pick a car well away from the store.
The pranksters amazingly have a properly fitting screwdriver with a Philips head. During the 5-10 minutes JA is inside Starbucks the skaters unscrew 4 screws on the front plate; remove the plate entirely AND then carefully place the CA license plate oblique against the curb facing forward. Why would a prankster take the time and effort to remove a plate and then carefully set it into place alongside the curb??
PLUS the same prankster – we assume – also took the time to remove 4 screws on the back plates and instead of tossing these plates, the skaters remove the plate, rotate it 180 degrees, and then take the time to screw it back on. And - mind you - this is ALL done at night time with little light shining on the car's rear. Makes absolutely NO SENSE.
Arias backs out of the parking stall and sees a flash. She steps outside the car in order to view this suspicious “flash in the night”. Alas JA discovers “ A CALIF plate”. She then grabbed the plate and tossed it into the car. As JM emphasized JA could not have known that CA plate belonged to her UNLESS she went to the back of the car to check the rear license plate. BUT because she secured a loose license plate that may or may not have belonged with the rental car she was overcome by a sense of menace and opted to lock the doors and drive away immediately.
The story is completely fabricated to conceal her alteration of the plates and is absurd on its face.
