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Brazen yobs post video of stealing lorry online

A cherry picker like the one stolen

Two lager louts have been slammed by police after posting video clips of their drunken joy-ride on a stolen cherry picker online, Yourmedway exclusively reports.

And last night police confirmed the thieves won’t even go to court, having escaped with just a caution.

Three hazy clips show the pair race the specialist industrial vehicle - a lorry with a lifting unit on the back - through Strood in the early hours of the morning.

During the six minutes of footage the men are first seen shouting and swearing on the truck’s high-reaching crane near Tesco’s in Cuxton Road.

They go on to run a red light in the High Street and even brazenly stop to buy cigarettes from a petrol station.

One of the thugs then says to the other: “Are we going home on this or what?”

A police spokesman confirmed the men were arrested at 5am on Sunday August 17 and cautioned for stealing the vehicle.

The criminal clips were posted on video-sharing website YouTube by Plat391 – whose linked Facebook profile gives his identity as 21-year-old Tristan from Rochester – just two days later.

Signalling the pair’s further contempt for the police, Plat391 posted this illiterate description underneath each one of the clips: “me an my cousin was drunk an stole a cherry picker 4 a laugh... an police if u find this vid we allready got caught an charged for the offence”.

Chief Inspector Des Keers said: “When offences such as these are filmed, published on the Internet and reported to us, we will investigate them.

“On occasions this has provided us with the evidence we need to report people to the courts for their actions.

“It is disappointing that a need exists to have to stress the consequences of such foolhardy actions to a minority of people who feel that such behaviour is acceptable.

“Kent police will not hesitate in dealing with anyone found to be acting antisocially, driving dangerously or putting themselves and others at risk through their actions.”

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