How do you get cops to laugh? Ask them if taking the police car you have just been accused of stealing is a felony.

That’s what Eric Sirmans did as he was arrested last week after he jumped into a parked Daytona Beach Police cruiser and drove away, complete with blue and red lights flashing, according to a police report. An officer's body camera video released Tuesday shows the unusual incident with a dispatcher issuing a be-on-the-lookout for their own squad car.

Police officers can be heard laughing when Sirmans asked the question, "This a, a felony?" Then Officer Steve Pignataro responded that stealing a police car was up there.

“Oh yeah, it’s like the toppest felony we can go,” Pignataro said.

Sirmans, 44, is charged with grand theft with damage more than $1,000, fleeing/attempting to elude and violation of pre-trial release conditions on a recent drug arrest. Sirmans was being held Tuesday without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail.

The car was assigned to Officer Nicholaus Sault, who is now the subject of an internal police investigation into whether he violated department policy requiring that cars be locked when unattended.

Sirmans is accused of hopping into an unlocked police car about 9:20 p.m. Aug. 31 in front of the Liquor Discount Hut at 727 N. Atlantic Ave. A witness told an officer that a man wearing flip-flops had taken the car.

Officer Steven Pignataro drove north on North Atlantic Avenue as police radio traffic discusses the report of the stolen car.

“A black male jumped in one of the police cars and drove away,” a dispatcher repeats. “Can anybody confirm if their car is missing?”

Pignataro spots the stolen police car northbound on North Atlantic Avenue at Zelda Boulevard going about 40 mph with its emergency lights flashing, a report said.

The car stops at Euclid Avenue and Pignataro draws his gun and orders the man out. The man identified as Sirmans gets out of the police car with his hands raised.

Someone can be heard calling him a moron.

Sirmans then, apparently, apologized.

An officer responds: “I think we are a little beyond apology.”