Soldier Steals Armoured Personnel Carrier And Leads Police On 60-Mile Chase
If you’ve played any of the Grand Theft Auto games in your time, you probably remember the glorious moment you first stumbled upon the map’s military base. You probably watched a YouTube video (or if we’re going back a few years, found an online ‘walkthrough’) to figure out how to sneak in without getting a wanted level, grabbed some angry-looking military vehicle, and made your way out to cause chaos around Los Santos/Vice City/Liberty City.
What you’re looking at here is someone doing just that. Well, not quite: it was IRL. A soldier stole this armoured vehicle - which looks to be a variant of the M113 - from Ford Pickett National Guard base in Richmond and drove it and full chat full through Richmond.
This is INSANE! Someone has hijacked a “Tank-like” vehicle from Fort Pickett and just drove it by our apartment! This is on Broad Street in the Fan. pic.twitter.com/EYfhFux1dk
— Parker Slaybaugh (@ParkerSlay89) June 6, 2018
Police were powerless to stop the vehicle, which reached speeds of up to 40mph during the two-hour, 60-mile pursuit. During that time it didn’t crash into anything, and no one was injured.
Eventually the vehicle stopped on a central reservation, at which point the soldier got out of the vehicle, only to be tasered and arrested by authorities. He has not yet been identified.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Hmm… the stuff about making video games violent definitely applied to this dude.
Everyone in the comments be like
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Just rockstar studying the police response to improve the next gta
At an amazing top speed of…….40mph
Tasered!?
In GTA, they shoot me down, consistently!
And people say GTA is realistic
I feel like this would be a F&F movie plot.