At some point last Thursday night a group of thieves planned and executed a coordinated attack on a used car dealer in Salem, NH. Their take? A Mercedes Benz, a Land Rover and a 2003 Porsche 911 Cabriolet. At this point, there’s nothing really strange about the crime. Thieves steal cars all the time. What they don’t usually do is rub it in the face of local police.
Around 2:00 a.m. the stolen Porsche 911 was spotted in the parking lot of the police department in the bordering town of Methuen, MA. What was it doing there? Donuts! That’s right, donuts. Apparently the thief thought it would be funny to take his joy ride right under the nose of the local law. He was right, it was funny. So funny he decided to do it again. Just 2 hours later the same Porsche came back and started doing donuts in the police parking lot once again. This time a cruiser was ready and gave chase only to lose the Porsche as it raced into the nearby town of Lawrence.
It wasn’t long after the cruiser lost site of the Porsche that police received a call about an accident involving a 911. By the time authorities arrived at the scene the driver was no where to be found and the Porsche was trashed.
As of today, the police are still investigating and the Land Rover and Benz have yet to be recovered.
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[Source: Lawrence Eagle Tribune]
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As a longtime city resident I can tell you that car thefts in the Lawrence MA area are pretty much an every night occurrence. Congrats to the thieves for becoming more discriminating. Usually they trash Honda Civics & Toyotas. The destroyed 911 and the still missing Mercedes and Range Rover prove that there is an elevated appreciation among the criminal population for finer automobiles. Rehabilitation must be working.
I like your postings of Porsche "incidents" in the world as we know it. I guess it shows that Porsche owners have their failings, too.
I think that if the thief was bothering to burn circles into the station pavement, he should at least have been scattering crullers and glazed jellies as he sped away to distract the police even more. Or maybe help them find where the thieves had gone off to by leaving a trail.
Kind of like the myth of Atalanta and the Golden Apples, ya know? Do you think that Melanion might have been driving this one too?