Dude, Where's The Rest of My Car?

(photo from WGN):

• Charges have been filed against a suspected car thief who led Chicago police on a high-speed chase through the West Side and down the Eisenhower Expressway.

  Harvey Green, 24, managed to elude police but then crashed after taking the Sacramento exit off the Eisenhower Wednesday morning, sheering off the rear wheels of the car he had stolen, police said. He remains hospitalized this morning.
  
  Green, of the 1100 block of South Francisco Avenue, was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and aggravated fleeing, both felonies, police said.

Looks like he was just headed home and needed a set of wheels. That's a crime now?

That's going to leave a mark