A backhoe. (Photo by Rob Boudon via flickr, used under cc-by-2.0 license)

To be fair, he wasn’t speeding 

Cops fail to stop man driving stolen backhoe along Philadelphia freeways


William Pusey heard that someone in Philadelphia was looking to buy a backhoe. And he knew where to find one. He just needed to bring buyer and merchandise together.

Lancaster Online reports that Pusey, 33, spent about 2.5 hours driving the roughly 15,000 construction vehicle, valued at about $125,000, more than 30 miles on Sunday afternoon after stealing it from an excavating company in the city’s western suburbs.

Pusey’s very slow, very big, and very yellow odyssey along some of the Philadelphia region’s busiest thoroughfares apparently failed to draw the attention of authorities while it was happening. Police located the backhoe the next day after its owner tracked it with a GPS system.

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