A New York man wearing nothing but his underwear stole a bread truck and then drove around Manhattan selling the baked goods, police said.
At around 3 a.m. Monday, David Baster, from Nanuet in Rockland County, hopped into a bread truck belonging to Grimaldi's Home of Bread and proceeded to make the deliveries mapped out on the driver's route, police told the New York Post. Baster, wearing nothing but his underwear, sold the bread to at least three restaurants and stores.
"When I heard he actually made a few deliveries, I laughed out loud...I guess he really wants to be a truck driver!" the truck's real driver told the NY Post.
Baster's delivery joyride began when he stole the truck, full of $8,000 worth of bread, on Second Avenue near 99th street, police said. After a few deliveries he threw loaves of bread out the window while driving down Lexington Avenue.
The alleged bread bandit then followed a limo driver onto the 59th Street Bridge. The limo driver, Armondo Sigcha, told the newspaper he called police because he thought he was being stalked.
"He was tailing me very, very closely...When I'm speeding up, he's speeding up. When I slow down, he slows down," Sigcha told the NY Post. "I'm raising my hands to him saying, 'What the hell is going on?' "
Baster was finally pulled over by Port Authority Police Officer Jason Rando, who determined that Baster was mentally unstable and had him transported to a psychiatric ward at Elmhurst Hospital.
Baster later told police he had to follow the limo to make deliveries. He was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a stolen vehicle and released into his parents' care.
Drivers for the bakery's trucks, which sell whole-wheat rolls, baguettes and other bread types, found Baster's stunt amusing.
"It's really so funny to me. I can laugh, of course, because the police caught the guy," one driver told the NY Post.
