Canadian Mounties Use Hope To Stop A Stolen Tractor

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Rural Alberta seems like a serene, tranquil place of snowy vistas and polite Canadians. But there's a seedy underbelly as well, and it breaks into your house and then tries to escape in a stolen tractor. In the snow. Until it rolls it.

Here's what happened: a break-in near the bucolic area around Red Deer, Alberta was reported to the Mounties. An hour or so later, they got another call, about a stolen John Deere 6400 tractor.

Thanks to the help of a snowmobiler, police followed the tracks in the snow to find the tractor, running down fences and trees in a mad escape run that had to be nearly twos of miles per hour, easy.

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A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer stated:

There was no way, without too much risk, that we could stop the tractor. So we were hoping by just following, the operator of the tractor would just stop.

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Yes, hope. The RCMP's secret weapon against crime.

Eventually, the police hope-rays worked, as the tractor stalled and rolled on its side while trying to crest a hill. The perpetrator was found in the cab with a bunch of the stuff he'd stolen, and I bet he said "Sorry" in that way that sounds like "sore-ry" that Canadians love so very much.

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(thanks, Dan!)