Skateboarders Choose Bad Day, Wrong Vehicle for Joyride

By Martin Henderson

First rule of stealing a vehicle: Make sure it can outrun the cops. 

Or someone on a bicycle. 

Or someone jogging briskly. 

Although we won't call them some of America's dumbest criminals because they are 13 to 15 years old—their adolescent brains are still developing, we hope—a quartet of bad boys was busted on Friday afternoon after an ill-advised joyride.

In a golf cart.

According to the blotter of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the group of skateboarders allegedly pilfered a company golf cart from Plano Self Storage in the business park on Esperanza.

The juvenile boys made their getaway about 2:07 p.m., when they drove away heading toward Empresa, but the law in Rancho Santa Margarita can be difficult to outrun. On national "Go Skateboarding Day," the boys would have been better served had they actually skated or walked to the skatepark on Antonio Parkway. 

Instead, even before the theft had been reported about five minutes after the fact, sheriff deputies had already collared the wayward boys.

Within 15 minutes of the ill-advised joyride, they were all waiting for their next ride—from the parents. 

Undoubtedly, it was no joyride home.

This report was culled from the Orange County Sheriff's website. Not all facts in each report are made public; the outcome of the report may differ from the original blotter item. There should be no assumption of guilt based on this limited information.