The GTS was stolen almost three weeks ago from an apartment in a suburb of Manchester, it had a disc lock and handlebar lock fitted but was lifted into a van. Jonah didn’t really expect to see it again but yesterday it was spotted by two friends in the Gorton area of Manchester.

The custom sprayed orange Vespa is pretty unique so wasn’t hard for friends to spot. Jonah had a bit of time to kill today so decided to visit the area where it had been spotted and wait around. After just 40 minutes he was amazed to hear his own scooter riding towards his car. There was no traffic behind it so he pulled out and started the pursuit.

After a couple of miles the rider started to pay attention to the silver jeep in his rear view mirrors and before long decided to make a quick U-Turn and head back the way he’d come. That’s when Jonah decided on a potentially life changing split second decision and rammed the scooter off the road.

The rider flew off the scooter, quickly followed by his crash helmet. Sadly he was able to get to his feet and limp away. Our have a go hero called the police and put his scooter back on its stand to survey the damage. The number plate had been swapped over (cloned from another GTS), the grab rail had been removed and the back light changed from a black to a clear one but other than that the scooter was pretty much as it was, other than some fresh crash damage from the impact.