Angry owner catches would-be Mercedes thief... with a forklift
 

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Forget LoJack, your Viper alarm system and The Club, all you really need to nab would-be car thieves is a forklift. That was the preferred tool of one Norwegian man who was set on stopping a crook from pinching a Mercedes-Benz E-Class from the W210 generation. The man grabbed the Benz with his tractor-based forklift and raised the front end of the car off the ground, damaging his car in the process. Tourists caught it all on tape, and the police arrived to find the not-so-grand larcenist sitting in the driver's seat.

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07-18-2011 03:59 PM

Must have been some good timing to catch the punk before he drove off. The police sure were nice about the whole thing. Hopefully the thief will have to pay for damages (Idiot should have run while he had the chance as opposed to just spinning the rear wheels :rolleyes:.)

Nobody ever said thieves were smart . . .

I think that that was the young guys car which is why he didn't run.

He was, it seems stealing stuff from the business, not stealing the car....so it seems.

Okay, that makes more sense. Otherwise, just blocking him in with the tractor would have seemed more logical.