This was in the Paper - I rekon it was a Brumby

Reg Brumbys · Post by **Reg Brumbys** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:18 pm

Bungling car thieves's risky jumpArticle from:

May 09, 2008 11:02am

THREE thieves who tried to steal a car in a dangerous stunt reminiscent of the Dukes of Hazzard movie have been sentenced in New Zealand.

The New Zealand Press Association today reported the three men broke into a car yard in Christchurch in October last year planning to steal a Subaru car.
They built a makeshift ramp out of concrete pavers planning to drive the car over a perimeter fence.

The thrilling escape plan worked but the trio were busted when they returned to the caryard to break into other cars.

James Symons, 21, who drove the Subaru off the ramp, has been sentenced to a year in jail.

His two co-offenders, were found guilty in the Christchurch District Court of unlawfully interfering with cars.

They will be sentenced later this month.

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:47 pm

haha that's an awesome story (except obviously for it involving stolen cars). I'd love to think it was an older Subaru however for such a daring attempt I'd imagine it would be a more valuable car being targeted, perhaps a WRX of some sort. They may have been inspired by some of the videos floating around of WRX's doing massively long jumps in rally clips etc.

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:52 pm

they returned

what for they already took one lol

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:12 pm

Maybe to steal the front struts out of another one cause they got all bent on the one that did the jump!

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:59 pm

Id like to see some photos

A perimeter fence is pretty high

One would have to have the car moving pretty fast so that it can land on the other side on all 4 wheels. I imagine that any speed under 20kmh, the car would just nose-dive after it left the ramp

Bumpty · Post by **Bumpty** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:28 am

haha, it worked the first time... So why not have another crack. Love it!

Subafury · Post by **Subafury** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:26 pm

they were getting too greedy. i wonder how high the fence was.
and i wonder if they videod it and were dumb enough to put on youtube.