{"id":387,"date":"2017-03-03T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motor-junkie.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2021-04-13T07:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:57:22","slug":"gta-real-life-lunatic-walks-garage-steals-50k-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/gta-real-life-lunatic-walks-garage-steals-50k-car\/387\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA In Real Life: Lunatic Walks In To Garage &#038; Steals $50K Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Jacobs on this nutter&hellip;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remember when you were a kid, and your parents said video games are a bad influence? Maybe it was violent movies, but one way or another everyone has been warned about the &lsquo;GTA effect.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>Watching too much gore or playing violent video games, in theory, should not actually turn a normal person in to a nut job. That said, the subject of today&rsquo;s article might well be a &lsquo;Grand Theft Auto&rsquo; gaming addict.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-397\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/54501642131210241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"409\"><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Man Steals Car From Open Garage (Video Below)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The police in Queensland, New South Wales, Australia have launched an appeal to find this wild car thief. As you&rsquo;ll see in the video below, the guy walks in to a garage wearing shorts and flip flops, before jumping in to a 2016 Holden Commodore and driving off.<\/p>\n<p>One employee attempts to stop the car thief, but it would appear the doors were locked. Here it is:<br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FQueenslandPolice%2Fvideos%2F10155237670153254%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GTA!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carthrottle.com\/post\/watch-as-a-brazen-car-thief-walks-into-a-workshop-and-drives-off-in-a-holden\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Car Throttle<\/strong><\/a>, the police are appealing for witnesses in this crime:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Police in New South Wales, Australia have released a video showing one of the most brazen car thefts we&rsquo;ve ever seen. On the CCTV footage &ndash; recorded at a garage in Windsor on Monday &ndash; a man is seen walking into a garage in Windsor, having a little mosey around, before getting in a red Holden Commodore. He slowly reverses back and swiftly drives away, as a member of staff tries to stop him, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Police have urged business in the area to &ldquo;be extra vigilant during business hours,&rdquo; and for anyone with information regarding the stolen Commodore &ndash; registration 094VUH &ndash; or the thief to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mypolice.qld.gov.au\/brisbanenorth\/2017\/02\/28\/vision-brazen-theft-car-windsor-business-work-hours\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">contact them<\/a><\/strong> immediately.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/45354176492339201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Recognise Him?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Unfortunately the grainy footage doesn&rsquo;t appear to have led to an arrest yet. The footage was released by Queensland police on Monday. Let&rsquo;s hope the owner was insured!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacobs on this nutter&hellip; Remember when you were a kid, and your parents said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[153,157,151,149,155],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","tag-car-stolen-australia","tag-car-stolen-from-garage","tag-grand-theft-auto","tag-gta","tag-queensland-car-stolen","iab_keys-automobile-markets-of-germany","iab_keys-automobiles","iab_keys-automotive-equipment-manufacture-car-industry","iab_keys-car-parts-and-supplies","iab_keys-crime","iab_keys-emergency-services","iab_keys-law-enforcement","iab_keys-motor-vehicles","iab_keys-new-south-wales","iab_keys-police","iab_keys-property-crime","iab_keys-road-transport","iab_keys-vehicles","iab_keys-wales","iab_keys-whales"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":387},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47301,"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/47301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.motor-junkie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}