PROVIDENCE - A Woonsocket man was arrested this afternoon after he tried to drive a car up the south steps of the State House with his elderly mother in a passenger seat.

Rep. Peter Kilmartin, a Pawtucket police captain, heard a "loud crash," looked out a State House window and saw the car climbing the stairs. The Dodge Diplomat made it up about 12 steps before backing down and parking off the steps...
... The man was arrested outside, near the north entrance, said Stephen Tocco, chief of the Capitol police. He was carrying a pair of sharp scissors, according to Tocco...
...Kilmartin said the incident chipped the marble State House steps and left a trail of antifreeze.

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I don't know what's more comical here, that the car was a Dodge Diplomat or that it left a trail of antifreeze on the State House steps.