Once an Australian Crook always an Australian Crook
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080306...t_080306210457

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man has been arrested after taking a new car on a test drive that lasted 6,200 kilometres (3,850 miles), five days and almost took him from one side of the continent to the other.

Police said the 30-year-old man walked into a car dealership in the southern city of Melbourne last Friday and asked to take a 2008 model Honda Accord for a spin.

After chatting with a salesman for 20 minutes and convincing him he was a genuine buyer, the man filled out the necessary paperwork then took off in the car before the salesman could get in the passenger seat.

He turned up on Wednesday, some 3,700 kilometres (2,300 miles) away near the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where police picked him up after he drove away from a garage without paying for fuel.

Officers checked the licence plates, and found toiletries and a toothbrush in the car.

Car dealer Ian McKenzie said the driver put 6,200 kilometres on the clock during his try-out.

"He's got to have been in the car nearly all day, every day," he told Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper.

The man will appear in Alice Springs Magistrates' Court Friday charged with aggravated unlawful use of a motor vehicle and unlawful possession of property.

and thats what makes this the greatest country

I guess you're kind of fucked when you're on an island though. The police will get you sooner or later.

Haha yeah I laughed my ass off when I heard about this.

and i thought this was about rupert murdoch

I read this as Australian cook....

I was hoping for a recipe for vegemite tacos.

he so would never have been found if he hadn't run off from the petrol station.

you do realise the island fits a whole lot of europe into it. for example western australia alone can fit the whole of the uk, and japan, and some other places like new york into it alone and that is just one state

I am typing from my voyager. just checking to see if it works

roger, copy, houston, all lights are green.?.