Man Takes Grand Theft Auto Into Real Life, Goes On A Two Hour Crime Spree

Sunderland recently underwent a crimewave unlike anything the region has see in awhile. Spanning a two-hour period, one man went on a Grand Theft Auto-like rampage across the area, ransacking homes and creating chaos.

The Sunderland Police put together a timeline for the chaos the man caused:

2.35PM: A man tries to break into a house on Kitchener Street but just damages the door and runs away;
3.45-4PM: Someone breaks into a house on General Graham Street and steals a suitcase, some Lladro porcelain figures and the keys to a Hyundai Getz, the most diverse criminal shopping basket perhaps of all time;
4.05PM: Attempted robbery of a Hylton Post Office and Costcutters on nearby Railway Terrace, where a man approaches the counter with a kitchen knife but leaves empty handed, peeling away in a tiny blue Hyundai Getz-shaped car;
4.15PM: Attempted robbery of William Hill on Hylton Road, same kitchen-knife-‘n’-Hyundai MO;
4.30PM: Police find a blue Hyundai Getz, on fire, on the side of Ettrick Grove

The man certainly had something going on that day, as he went on the rampage with seemingly no warning to anyone in the area. Some people just want to watch the world burn.