pritch
26th May 2008, 16:21
Not quite in the same league as Mr & Mrs Scumdog but a goodie anyway.
On Saturday night a friend was telling me of events that occurred a month or so ago. He was working with a couple of others on an urgent job one Saturday. Suddenly one of the guys exclaims, “The car is gone!” It had been stolen from the alleyway beside the workshop.
Now there was a bit of a problem, it wasn’t his car, and he didn’t know the rego. He phoned his wife to ask if she had noticed the rego. So he was standing there with a phone to each ear, the Police on one phone, and his wife on the other abusing him at length for not locking the car etc etc etc etc etc. He didn’t tell her he had left his wallet on the passengers seat....
They asked a guy in a neighbouring workshop if he had seen the car go past and he confirmed that the car had driven away some half hour previously. He hadn’t taken any notice as he assumed it was the normal driver. While they are all standing out on the street discussing this, the car drove past.
The apprentice asked, “Can I chase him?” The boss told him to go for it if he wanted.
The kid spotted the car but lost it again, he had however formed the impression it was headed out of town, so he shot out to the edge of town at speed and waited. Sure enough along came the stolen car, a Nissan Sylvia recognisable by a mismatched front mudguard.
The lad pulled out in front of the stolen car and called the Police on his mobile. He was giving the Police a running commentary as to where he and the stolen car were.
As they approached Waitara the thief must have noticed this guy in front of him yabbering into a cell phone and continually looking in his mirror, so he turned left at Brixton after the young guy had passed the turn.
The young guy doubled back but couldn’t see where the stolen car had gone.
About this time two Police cars arrived, one from Waitara and one from town, apparently they pulled into the driveway of the car sales on the corner, and the young guy and the cops were discussing where the stolen car might have gone.
Mid discussion the Nissan comes out from behind the car sales where it had been hiding to find the way blocked by not one, but two Police cars. The thief tried unsuccessfully to crash a fence, then took to his toes but quickly gave it away.
In due course the boy arrived back at work high as a kite on adrenalin, very excited, a job well done.
The Police said the thief had arrived from Auckland the day before and was on his way back. It was thought that his being from out of town that he had taken a wrong turning somewhere which was why he was driving past the scene of the crime so soon after.
The wallet didn’t appear to have been touched. So a lucky day for everyone except the thief.
Bloody good job!
On Saturday night a friend was telling me of events that occurred a month or so ago. He was working with a couple of others on an urgent job one Saturday. Suddenly one of the guys exclaims, “The car is gone!” It had been stolen from the alleyway beside the workshop.
Now there was a bit of a problem, it wasn’t his car, and he didn’t know the rego. He phoned his wife to ask if she had noticed the rego. So he was standing there with a phone to each ear, the Police on one phone, and his wife on the other abusing him at length for not locking the car etc etc etc etc etc. He didn’t tell her he had left his wallet on the passengers seat....
They asked a guy in a neighbouring workshop if he had seen the car go past and he confirmed that the car had driven away some half hour previously. He hadn’t taken any notice as he assumed it was the normal driver. While they are all standing out on the street discussing this, the car drove past.
The apprentice asked, “Can I chase him?” The boss told him to go for it if he wanted.
The kid spotted the car but lost it again, he had however formed the impression it was headed out of town, so he shot out to the edge of town at speed and waited. Sure enough along came the stolen car, a Nissan Sylvia recognisable by a mismatched front mudguard.
The lad pulled out in front of the stolen car and called the Police on his mobile. He was giving the Police a running commentary as to where he and the stolen car were.
As they approached Waitara the thief must have noticed this guy in front of him yabbering into a cell phone and continually looking in his mirror, so he turned left at Brixton after the young guy had passed the turn.
The young guy doubled back but couldn’t see where the stolen car had gone.
About this time two Police cars arrived, one from Waitara and one from town, apparently they pulled into the driveway of the car sales on the corner, and the young guy and the cops were discussing where the stolen car might have gone.
Mid discussion the Nissan comes out from behind the car sales where it had been hiding to find the way blocked by not one, but two Police cars. The thief tried unsuccessfully to crash a fence, then took to his toes but quickly gave it away.
In due course the boy arrived back at work high as a kite on adrenalin, very excited, a job well done.
The Police said the thief had arrived from Auckland the day before and was on his way back. It was thought that his being from out of town that he had taken a wrong turning somewhere which was why he was driving past the scene of the crime so soon after.
The wallet didn’t appear to have been touched. So a lucky day for everyone except the thief.
Bloody good job!