stolen double decker bus video!

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How smart do you have to be to steal one of these and video the whole thing including telling your friends not to say anything if you get caught?

original was taken down so I don’t know how long this one will last:

http://images.thecarconnection.com/sml/double-decker-by-mockney-piers_100315197_s.jpg

Three Wiltshire hoodies have been arrested and bailed after taking a double-decker bus for an early morning jaunt, part of which popped up on YouTube.
Two 16-year-old girls and a 21-year-old man swiped the vehicle from a depot in Amesbury in the early hours of 18 June and headed off down the A345 towards Salisbury. In the process, they hit a tree before “smashing to a halt into parked cars on an Amesbury estate”, as the Telegraph puts it.
The video (language NSFW) shows the latter stages of the joyride and ends as they leg it at 3.15am:

According to cops, the trio “caused around £30,000 damage, including to a green Volkswagen Polo, a silver Honda Jazz and three other £200,000 buses at the depot”.
Inspector Martyn Sweett said: "It was utter stupidity, extremely reckless and they are rather fortunate that, because of the time of day that they took the bus, that they didn’t kill anyone in the road.
“To drive a bus like that takes a considerable amount of training. You have individuals who are completely untrained and they are driving round this huge bit of equipment on the roads.”
Sweett might have added that the three displayed further utter stupidity by disseminating the video of their escapade, with inevitable results. ®

http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1046631_car-video-break-bad-brits-on-a-double-decker-joyride

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haha wow!

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2 16 year old girls, and a 21 year old man. HRMMMMMMMM…

HRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…

Wonder why he crashed into that tree/parked cars?

HRMMMM…

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wtf are you gonna do with a double decker bus?

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I don’t know, but I do have a guess about what he was going to do with the two 16 year old girls.

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YES

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How bored do you have to be to steal a double decker bus?

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How much grand theft auto do you need to play before you think you can get away with it?

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and now for the USA version of this crime:

Metro customers boarded a bus Friday afternoon as normal: paying their fares, swiping their SmarTrip cards and plopping down in their seats.

They were unaware, however, that the driver was an impostor.

William Jackson, a 19-year-old District resident, apparently fooled workers and passengers alike. Authorities said he wore a standard-issue Metro bus driver’s uniform, made his way into the Bladensburg bus garage in Northeast and drove off, pretending to be a driver assigned to the B2 route, which goes from Bladensburg Road to Anacostia.

Four miles later, the bus crashed into a tree and several cars.

The driver initially fled. Jackson was later arrested and charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle and fleeing an accident, Capt. Ronald A. Pavlik Jr. of the Metro Transit Police Department said on Saturday.

“He simply had a fascination with buses,” Pavlik said, recounting what Jackson allegedly told investigators.

Metro is initiating a “top-down review” of Metro’s procedures, Pavlik said, to figure out how someone was able to take the bus.

The incident is a reminder of Metro’s long list of safety problems, including bus drivers striking pedestrians, workers being hurt or killed, and the deadly Red Line crash a year ago.

The crash led to a scathing Federal Transit Administration audit of Metro that depicted its safety department as dysfunctional and reinforced criticism of its oversight agency, the Tri-State Oversight Committee, as lax.

In this case, Metro protocol requires that employees entering the bus facility show a form of identification to a security guard before they can proceed, Pavlik said. However, investigators believe that the impostor must have been “waved through” by the guard on duty when he arrived at the facility Friday afternoon, he said.

After passing security, the impostor boarded a bus, which didn’t require a key to start, and left the station to drive the B2 route.

He had driven about four miles when he struck a tree at 4:15 p.m., near the intersection of 17th Street and Massachusetts Avenue SE, Metro said.

After the crash, authorities said, the passengers fled. Metro has been unable to identify them.

But the impostor continued driving until he was intercepted at 14th Street and Potomac Avenue SE by District police responding to a 911 call from a witness to the accident.

He ran from the bus. Police apprehended Jackson two blocks away at 16th Street and Potomac SE.

It appears that the impostor drove the B2 route from the facility on Bladensburg Road to a stop near the Potomac Avenue Metro station.

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drive till the wheels fall off!!!

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Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.