Three arrested after stolen double-decker bus joyride

Joyriders - including a pair of 16-year-old girls - left a £30,000 trail of devastation after stealing a double-decker bus then posted video footage on YouTube. The three hoodies took the bus from a depot in Amesbury, Wiltshire, and went on a 12-mile wrecking spree, first smashing into a tree before eventually crashing into parked cars and running off. One of the thieves - a 21-year-old man - filmed the last five minutes on his mobile phone, showing one of the girls behind the wheel of the £200,000 bus as she heads down the A345.

The man repeatedly asks, 'What we driving?' to which the girls scream in reply, 'A double-decker!' He then points the camera at the smashed window and says, 'How to smash a window,' before telling the girl at the wheel to take a roundabout the wrong way round. She then begins weaving the bus back and forth across the road as he shouts: 'No, no, don't do that you'll roll the bus over!'



The driver then starts beeping the horn and laughing. The man then says: 'Now park at Archers Gate and we'll f*** off.' Then he changes his mind and says: 'No we'll dump it in the middle of the roundabout.'

He then adds: 'Park it outside my mum's house - that would be so funny.' Prophetically, the joyriders then says: 'How funny would this be if it was in the newspaper. If we get caught with this, you don't know nothing. Just "No comment, no comment," all the way.' The teenage driver then turns into a street lined with cars and appears to scrape past a couple.



The man can be heard yelling: 'Oh s***! Get out, get out, get out!' He then points the camera at himself and shouts, 'Oh dear god,' before the trio can be seen abandoning the bus and running away down the street screaming and shouting. The three joyriders were picked up by police who were called to the scene around 3:45am on Friday, June 18.

The video, called 'stolen bus solstice 2010 hoodies amesbury', has so far been viewed more than 11,000 times. The joyride caused an estimated £30,000 of damage to the bus, a green Volkswagen Polo, a silver Honda Jazz, and three other buses at the depot in Amesbury. A spokesman for Wiltshire and Dorset bus company described the action as a 'foolish crime.'