Teens drive hours to steal Hellcats, then wreck them immediatel

[86Boyz]

A group of teenagers apparently drove over 200 miles to St. Peters, Missouri, from Kansas City, MO, to steal Dodge Charger and Challenger Hellcats. While the teens did successfully steal the cars, and drive them away, they didn't apparently have enough car control skills to avoid immediately crashing the 707-hp muscle cars. According to a statement by police, the thieves didn't even make it a mile away from the dealership before totaling two of the high-performance Mopars and damaging another. The local news story about the theft erroneously refers to the stolen cars as Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcats, where it appears two of the three crashed cars are actually Chargers.

The teens were apparently spotted by a Napleton's Mid Rivers Dodge dealership employee who saw headlights on the lot at 1:30 am. The employee then called the police. Three of the four teens were arrested -- one of whom is only 16 years old and will be tried as a juvenile. The others, 17 and 19, will be tried as adults and are facing stiff charges like burglary. We imagine the thieves' lack of driving experience helped in the pursuit.
It'll be a few months before Napleton's Mid Rivers Dodge will have the stolen and totaled Hellcats returned to its inventory because of the limited Hellcat allocations. However, the dealership does still have one Hellcat left, which wasn't tampered with during the heist.
It just goes to show that if you're going to steal high-performance cars, you might want to know how to actually drive them. That or you could just not steal cars.





Dodge’s Hellcats may have a somewhat self-destructive anti-theft measure: they are so powerful three teens accused of driving over three hours to steal a pair of Challenger Hellcats were unable to make it more than a mile in their new cars. Yes, they crashed ‘em.

Three teens are accused of driving three and a half hours from Kansas City to Saint Peters, Missouri around 1:30 AM on Friday to pinch four cars from Napleton Mid Rivers Dodge dealership. Among the cars taken were two Challenger Hellcats. The teens did not get far, as St. Peters Police Officer Melissa Doss told local Fox 2 News:

They lost control of them fairly easily. I mean, they made it less than a mile.

The dealership will have some difficulty replacing the Hellcats, which will take months before FCA gives them a new allocation, according to the dealership’s general manager. One employee had called the cops when he happened to drive past the dealership and saw car lights on in the lot. It did not take long for the cops to apprehend the teens on foot following their crashes.

The thieves were 16, 17 and 19 years old and while the youngest is to be tried in juvenile court, the elder two are unfortunately in jail facing a variety of charges including burglary and receiving stolen property.

I would think some advanced driving school training would be sufficient.

[gramicci101]

They're going to jail because they wanted to drive a challenger? Someone really needs to talk to them about setting worthwhile goals for themselves.