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Two teenagers have been arrested after they were found attempting to get a McDonald’s drive-through in a stolen golf buggy.

The unorthodox method of acquiring a late-night snack came as a surprise to police in Catterick, north Yorkshire, who said on Facebook that they had stopped the two men, 18 and 19, at 3.45am.

In a post about the incident North Yorkshire Police said that they had pre-emptively boxed the buggy in “to avoid a high speed pursuit”. The two men were arrested on suspicion of taking without consent, a spokesman said. The driver was arrested for theft and driving while unfit through drink.

Describing the arrest as the ‘most unusual job of the night’, the police force added of the suspect that there would be ‘a few interesting questions for him to answer in interview when sober’.

The post showed a photograph of a golf buggy with the words “club car” on the front. Commenters underneath the post took a similarly light-hearted approach to the incident. One replied: ‘Hope he enjoyed his tee!’