Shiny... must have...

[lordshipmayhem]

This could NOT have seemed like a good idea at the time. No way on Earth. Not even in your most drug-induced haze could this have sounded doable.

And sure enough... it wasn't.

Someone with a little bit of knowledge about how to start up a fire truck (this is trickier than it sounds: you don't use keys to start fire trucks, as nobody wants to drop (or worse lose) the key and be fumbling around for it back at the hall while someone's house burns, especially if they're still inside it) managed to steal a Toronto pumper.

And take it for a little joyride, out into the middle of the countryside north of the city.

Think about this: There are like X fire trucks in the entire city. They're big, they're loud (especially with the siren on), and even with empty water tanks they're heavy so they really don't move all that fast - highway speed, fagetaboutit - and take corners like an elephant with lumbago. As this was a fully-equipped active-duty pumper, it also would have had full water tanks, adding to the weight and hence inertia. You're going to attract attention, and not just from John Q. Public. It's not like it's Anonymous Cream-Coloured Sedan, of which there are something approaching a zillion on the roads. And Mr. Master Thief had the siren going as he barrelled down the streets.

Yep, there's a huge black market in stolen fire trucks. Repaint the sucker and sell it under the table to some ice-cream vendor looking for a cheap vehicle.

http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20060320-010/page.asp

Comments

[morganskye.livejournal.com]

lol! What a moron. Did it occur to him that they might notice it gone? Dolt.