School buses taken for joyride end up in Vaughan pond, creek

Torontosun.com
Dec. 7, 2020
Kevin Connor

It’s not the coolest ride but it will get you from A to B -- or through a baseball field and into a pond.

York Regional Police are looking for witnesses after two school buses were stolen and taken for joy rides Thursday morning.

Just before 7 a.m., police were called to Marita Payne Park, in the Dufferin St. and Centre St. area, for a report that a school bus was in a pond.

Officers found the bus still running and partially submerged.

Police also found a second school bus in a nearby creek.

One of the buses had been driven through a nearby baseball diamond and damaged a fenced backstop.

The long yellow buses had been parked overnight in a lot at the Promenade Mall when they were broken into.

Police hope someone saw something or have dashcam evidence to find the thieves.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7441, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).