On Friday morning at about 4:00 A.M., Charlie Sheen received a call from one of those OnStar-type services.  They were calling to tell him that his Mercedes had been involved in a crash, and the airbags had been deployed.

But Charlie wasn't anywhere near the vehicle.  He was at home in bed.  It turns out someone had stolen the car.  Police later found it off Mulholland Drive at the bottom of a 400-foot ravine.  There was no sign of the thieves.

TMZ is reporting that Charlie had made it easy for the thieves by leaving the keys in the ignition and his garage door open.  (He does live in a gated community, though.)

Charlie had some HI-larity prepared for the press later in the day.  He said, quote, "It was nice to have police come to my house and for once I didn't have to leave with them."

Meanwhile, another even more expensive vehicle was found wrecked not too far from Charlie's later in the afternoon.  It was a Bentley owned by Lisa Vanderkump.  She was a very minor actress back in the day. (Her most recent credits include episodes of "Baywatch Nights" and "Silk Stalkings" back in the mid-'90s.)

She and her husband live in the same gated community as Charlie, and a fancy restaurant called Villa Blanca.  She's supposedly on the shortlist for the cast of Bravo's upcoming "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills".

Police are trying to figure out if the two incidents are related.  They reportedly have surveillance video from both homes that might help them catch the thieves.

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