Taken from the National Post Blog.
Video footage of a driverless tractor circling a Wal-Mart parking lot in Richmond Hill, bashing into everything in its path, has garnered more than 240,000 views on YouTube in the past week.
The video, posted to YouTube, shows the tractor driving in circles around the parking lot near Bayview Avenue and Highway 7 for at least five minutes while a crowd of onlookers gathered, with no clue how to stop it. York Regional Police were called to the Wal-Mart at 9.30 p.m. last Wednesday, and found that the someone had deliberately put the tractor into motion.
Police do not have any suspects as of yet, but they are viewing security footage from the area, said Sgt. Gary Phillips.
The tractor smashed into three different parked cars, a fire hydrant, a bench, the building itself, and almost flattened a tree. Police show up at about three-and-a-half minutes into the video and helplessly follow the tractor on its dizzying track around the parking lot. The runaway machine finally came to a stop when it crashed into a light post. At that point, a man jumped on board and turned the ignition off.
Sgt. Phillips said the damage caused by the rogue vehicle is expected to “be in the thousands.”
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