Inconspicuous Vehicle

If you really, really want to get across town to see your girlfriend, and you haven't got your own car, how do you get there? Train? Nah. Steal your own set of wheels. And, to blend in with the traffic, how about a small, ordinary car?

No way. You take a bright red double-decker bus.

And in the interests of safety, make sure you're drunk.

Also, keep yourself well-hidden, by going shopping in your bus.

Police in the UK intercepted a 17-year-old on such a mission recently, and he was caught not because he crashed the bus, picked up passengers, blocked traffic or caused danger - but because he stopped at a service station trying to buy cigarettes, and asked for them to be put on the account of the bus company.

What's more, he'd only just been released 12 hours earlier, for stealing... another bus. The first time he was also drunk, managing to drive the wrong way through a roundabout, then cruising through a fence.

Ah, to be young and carefree again.

~ Elisa