24 January 2008: To cold to walk

The city of Winnipeg, in Canada, has a car theft problem, with more than a dozen vehicles being stolen in the city every day. Many of the thieves are teenagers and the city runs a counselling programme which requires them to attend as often as every three hours, to ensure they are not out stealing cars.

But it's cold in Winnipeg at this time of year, with daytime temperatures dipping to minus 40 degrees Celsius last week, and two of the programme's participants decided it was too cold to walk to the programme.

So to get there, they stole a car.

The local police said "some people make dumb decisions"