Would-be thief calls police from inside car he was trying to steal

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Would-be thief calls police from inside car he was trying to steal

The 17-year old became trapped in the Volvo he had broken into in Norway

Jon Henley European affairs correspondent
Mon 24 Dec 2018 12.43 GMT

Christmas came early for police in Trondheim when a would-be car thief called the local station to confess he was locked inside the vehicle he was trying to steal.

“He called us just before 8am on Christmas Eve from inside the car he had just broken into,” Ebbe Kimo, the operations manager for the Trøndelag force in central Norway, said in an interview with the state broadcaster NRK.

“He couldn’t open the doors. He knows us quite well and clearly thought it would be OK to call us for help. A bit like calling a friend, really.”

Kimo said the 17-year-old thief had managed to open the doors of a Volvo parked outside a dealership in Norway’s third-largest city, not far from the prison, without doing any noticeable damage to the car, but subsequently found himself trapped by its centralised locking system.

“He sounded quite stressed and desperate when he called us, and I think he was relieved when we arrived,” the officer told TV2.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/24/norwegian-car-thief-calls-police-from-inside-vehicle-he-was-trying-to-steal


Some day car security might work like this...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Alas, the video can't be watched.

My personal car thief prevention system is that I drive a stick shift.