photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook page
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Vandals stole a small 4-wheel drive utility vehicle owned by the Village of Ridgewood, and took the the golf cart sized unit for a short joy ride in a municipal parking lot before overturning it on its side late Wednesday evening, 07/07. Witnesses to the incident reported seeing a small group of male juveniles, none of whom appeared to have been injured, run from the scene after the vehicle crashed. A search of the area by several Ridgewood Police patrol units failed to turn up the perpetrators. Ridgewood firefighters were dispatched to stabilize the vehicle, drain its large water tank, and right it in preparation for removal by a flatbed tow truck. Video footage from a nearby security camera was turned over to Ridgewood Police detectives for investigatory purposes. And yes the keys were left in the vehicle !
Round up the usual suspects Jackie!
And the Village wants to buy another one of these to use a a street sweeper, and keep it stored at the Hudson Street Parking Garage. Right. Another accident waiting to happen.
Please don’t leave keys in your vehicle.
The little shits might take it for a joy ride.
Cameras are everywhere.
Queue up the parents defending their children.
I’m not gonna lie, if I was 15 or 16 years old I would’ve take that little jitney for a joyride too !
I’m sure it could be repaired, let’s look at the bright side at least no one got hurt.
Karma is a bitch town admins..
Crazy kids
These crazy animals, out of control if you ask me. When I was 15 I was messing around with girls and not destroying things. Let the kids be though.
Here we go now the shits gonna hit the fan.
Who would have left the keys in it?? Who supervises these vehicles? If it didn’t tip over would the town have even known or cared? It def costs less to repair or replace than what was stolen by the quarter thief just sayin’.
Parks Department owns responsibility for the vehicle.