Early Sunday morning, some imaginative young thief in LaPorte, Indiana, drove onto a small car dealership lot with a flatbed truck and used an attached crane pick up a 2008 Jeep Wrangler and drive off with it. The lift (oh god kill me) took about six minutes, but the owner of the dealership said that picking up a car with a crane isn’t really the best idea. (Duh.) It probably smashed out the windows, punctured the doors, and damaged the frame. And even better? There’s security cam footage:
It also bears asking: If you’re going to basically total a car as you steal it, why go through the trouble of stealing a new car? Wouldn’t just any old car off a street suffice? Anyway, the car still hasn’t been found, but police have arrested a suspect.
[FOX Chicago via Drudge]
ChrisP
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 7:42 AMEver thought that they wanted whats inside the car instead?
There is a huge black market for things like Airbags, stereo and also engine parts. Beats buying it at a dealership for 3 times or more the price.
Jeep Accessories
Monday, October 24, 2011 at 4:06 PMYeah, I was even thinking it was a drywall truck at first, but those don’t have bed stakes. It’s most likely a rail tie truck, but definitely not a truck designed to haul vehicles.
Oh, and it looks to me like a Freightliner Business Class M2 112. (Edit comment)