The two men inside the stopped car jumped out and started running, and the officer gave chase.
But when he got out of his vehicle, a seemingly random passer-by hopped in, and took off with the cruiser.
“The constable had gotten out of the vehicle to do a routine traffic stop, and as he approached the vehicle where the two males were, when they fled, he chose to pursue them on foot,” said Insp. Davis Wendell of the RCMP. “It appears that someone in the neighbourhood had witnessed that, and as a result of that, had come and taken the police car.”
“As I say, the police car was recovered several blocks from there, it’s undamaged, it has not been in an accident or anything like that.”