This Surrey Man decided to steal a JCB and lead cops on a slow speed getaway. What’s a JCB you ask? Click Here. No I’m not kidding. The bloody idiot actually though he could outrun police in that. Heres a clip from the Register’s wonderful article:

A Surrey man who stole a JCB, provoked the “the slowest police chase ever”, shrugged off a tasering and was cuffed only when the mechanical digger shed its tracks was earlier this week convicted of the vehicle’s theft and dangerous driving, the Surrey Advertiser reports.

William Smith, 29, of Nutfield, made off with the JCB from a Worplesdon building site on 13 August last year, the paper reports. A local resident alerted police, who quickly dispatched an Armed Response Unit to the scene. One PC Goddard decided he could dispense with his pursuit vehicle, and gave chase on foot.

He told Guildford Crown Court: “It was probably going at about 10 or 15mph. I was able to keep pace at a fast jog. I shouted ‘Stop, police!’ through the open cab window, but the driver refused to pull over. He looked in my direction and then swerved the JCB towards me.”

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I know the economy is bad right now, and gas prices are the death of us all but this Murfreesboro Tennessee man ended up trading his truck for $20 worth of Cocaine.  I think he took the Chevy moto a little to seriously…. Like A Rock.

The guys over at Dumb as a Blog had this to say

“Drugs make people dumb. But Charles Kevin Kelly of Tennessee, who allegedly traded his truck for twenty dollars worth of crack, would seem to be a special brand of stupid. Even crackheads who steal their parents’ televisions have the good sense to pawn them for the cash first. And I know that the economy is bad, and car dealers are desperate, but go ahead and guess which part of this headline is made up?” — Read More From Dumb as a Blog

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