For those who don't know, this is a Zamboni. You use it to make a nice surface on an artificial ice rink. Every arena in North America has one.That includes the East Calgary (Alberta, Canada) Twin Arenas. That facility is lucky, though, that manager Ross Harris was on the alert Thursday afternoon.
As he was working alone in his office, he noticed the arena's Zamboni, which was parked inside, on the move. "I happened to glance at the security camera monitor," he said "when I saw the Zamboni going outside. I really wondered what was going on!"
On investigating, Harris found two men, apparently drunk, trying to use the Zamboni to push their car off an icy patch of pavement. One of the men had walked into the building and broken into the garage area where the ice-grooming machine was parked.
Rather than offering an apology, they asked Harris if he had a truck or tow rope to help them free their car. Telling them he was going inside to get a shovel, he told co-workers to call the cops.
About five minutes later, the Calgary police were there and had the pissed partiers in custody. Using the knowledge of criminal behaviour for which the police are famous, Sgt. Kelly Oberg said alcohol appeared to be a factor.
The tanked twosome appeared in court today, charged with the most Canadian of crimes — trying to steal a Zamboni.
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