Busted!

[Guest]

Been following this news story in my gaff for a while, finally there's some video footage to watch. Basically some brain donor and his bird stole a bus in August and decided to play a bit of live-action Grand Theft Auto around Wakefield and the surrounding area.

 

Video here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/8421478.stm

 

Sadly there's no sound, but luckily I Emailed Sheriff John Bunnell and he provided a transcript for the episode of World's Wildest Police Videos it'll somehow appear in (even though they haven't made them for years).

 

Wakefield, England. An unemployed MANIAC has stolen this CITY BUS. Now he's taking police on a WILD RIDE around the STREETS of MERRY OLD ENGLAND. He BARRELS across an INTERSECTION and drives the WRONG WAY, forcing a COMPACT out of the way and TOPPLING a STOPLIGHT. He BLAZES down a NARROW ROAD and RAMS an INNOCENT DRIVER out of the way. The SUSPECT then TAKES OUT a PARKED CAR and PUNCHES the GAS. The CRAZED LUNATIC doesn't know where to STOP and VEERS WILDLY across a CORNER! He picks up SPEED, but he can't lose the POLICE CHOPPER. Taking more and more RISKS, he pulls onto the WRONG side of the ROAD, playing CHICKEN with an ONCOMING CAR! OFFICERS have to END this INSANITY - SOON! The DERANGED SUSPECT takes the BATTERED BUS over COUNTRY ROADS but still can't lose the EYE IN THE SKY. He pulls onto the FREEWAY, but LITTLE DOES HE KNOW the OFFICERS have deployed some SPIKE STRIPS. It's a DIRECT HIT! The bus goes OUT OF CONTROL and SMASHES into the MEDIAN, then CAREERS across the ROAD, DESTROYING a BARRIER. This DANGEROUS MADMAN should have known BETTER than to TANGLE with the OFFICERS of the ENGLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT. There's only one BUS RIDE this CRAZED FELON will get - STRAIGHT to the COUNTY SLAMMER.

 

Cheers John! One fun fact is that I'm 50/50 that I might have dealt with him in the course of my job, I've certainly seen that name on the system before. I'll double check that when I'm back at work, that would be some interesting trivia - I possibly contributed towards a man stealing a bus and going on a rampage.

[FredTransit]

I saw that on the news. What a tit.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hirst, those fine words that you have managed to extract from SHERIFF JAMES PURNELL have literally caused me to laugh my clam off.

[Nervy Si]

This DANGEROUS MADMAN should have known BETTER than to TANGLE with the OFFICERS of the ENGLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT

Yeah, you don't want to mess with those fackers

[Lankytim]

WAKE FIELD, LONDON, ENGLANDSHIRE.That bus wreckathon looks a hoot to me. Id love to give it a go.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Reminds me a bit of that Beverly Hills Cop film where the bad guys go on the rampage in a massive lorry doing loads of damage.

[pompei]

[Station]

Does he try and cross the central reservation at the end do you reckon?

[Lankytim]

Looks like hes trying to yeah, good job he didnt.These buses are crap, most lorries will easily get through a central reservation!

[angorabedsock]

That can't be an actual quote from the sheriff, as there was no mention of HIGH ON CRYSTAL METH

[brammy777]

is it a bad thing that when i read that Bunnell piece i heard him talking every single word?

[Tayne]

.

[reallyloud]

It would make an ideal computer game though. Wakefield Optare Death Bus II.I have to admit, as I watched it on TV I felt a tinge of envy. Quite a irresponsible but effective way to let off steam after queueing for a bus journey to pick up a packet of crisps for dinner at Bejams. Moral of the story - Don't use public transport.

[Claypole]

Special prize to the guy waiting at the lights who pulled away the millisecond before he plowed into him.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Yeah, he did well, didn't he?I like how they're presenting this... bus.mov playing in Internet Explorer, with a screen recorder recording it... and half the toolbar?

[Station]

Special prize to the guy waiting at the lights who pulled away the millisecond before he plowed into him.

YES ... he NARROWLY wiped out a blue sedan containing a MOTHER AND CHILD, before continuing his AUTOGEDDON ONSLAUGHT further down the highway.

[STUNO]

Sometimes..just sometimes I feel like doing that in my bus

[RedSparrow]

Hirst, once again, thanks for the LOLZ.A lad from my school nicked a bus and drove round here (Hastings) about 12 years ago smashing peoples cars up. Lovely chap.

[The Liberator]

I don't believe that transcript comes from Sheriff J. Bunnell. I have heard it is in the terms of his contract that he does not provide commentary on any felons who do not CAREEN into a SEMI, unless it happens in Forsyth County, GA.

[pompei]

There was one of theose Traffic Cops shows featuring Humberside Plod a couple of years ago in which a fella nicked a bus from the depot which is directly opposite the Police Station from where he had just been released for causing hi jinks in town.They stopped him on Cleethorpes prom using one of those spikey tyre busting strips. He was obviously a steaming nit but it made GR9 viewing.

[brammy777]

Wasnt there something like this in Bromley, where a guy with a gun hijacked a bus, and unknown to him the driver took it straight to the Police station, and it was bombarded with armed police?

[whitevanman]

we has a bus incident much like the above in out village back in 98... the arsehole went down a single track road to the ford........the said bus got stuck 3/4 of the way across so it looked like a cartoon incident. a bit on the bank and the rest in the river.......... bloody idiot, but made great gossip for days

[Albert Ross]

I did hear, in typical Wakefield style, they went past 7 buses, looking for the 32 which stopped at the end of their street. Imagine if there was no 32 in the depot that day, they wouldn't have pinched it. I blame the bus company for leaving the numbers in the window. I reckon they should be made to take the numbers out so nobody pinches them any more.

[Split_Pin]

Thats an EXCELLENT transcript - SJB's voice was in my head as I was reading that:lol:

[j-j]

Can't believe the kok only got 3.5 years - traffic sentences are dumb.You'd get 10 years for robbing a bank with shotgun even if no one got shot - but surely this is much worse as it's prolonged and all the evidence is recorded but still 3 and a half years?