Who Steals an Ambulance?!?

A future firefighter, of course. Or rather, someone who had hoped to become a firefighter, because this guy can pretty much kiss his firefighting and law enforcement career goodbye. An 18-year-old trainee with the Bucoda Fire Department stole and totaled the small town's only ambulance early Saturday morning.

A volunteer firefighter spotted the joy-riding teen in the stolen ambulance on a rural road in the small Thurston County community. According to thief's would-be future firefighting brethren, the ambulance was careening at a high speed when it veered off the rural road and crashed. The suspect fled the totaled ambulance, but was pursued and found by a K-9 unit. Not only does the accident leave one young man in big trouble legally and professionally, but it also leaves Bucoda without an ambulance.

First a tow truck in Tacoma and now an ambulance in Thurston County...what is up, Washington?! Not that stealing any car is good, but these are particularly poor choices.

Ambulances: Not for Stealing. Photo by Seattlest Flickr Photographer romulusnr