If you want to show the police a clean set of heels forget your old Jags and Audi S8's – what you need is a go-kart.
A teenager taking a kart for a spin through a German town with seven squad cars in hot pursuit managed to give them all the slip, according to reports.
The unnamed 18-year-old led the convoy through the streets of Moenchengladbach for three miles but they were unable to match his pace.
He even spotted a private garage with an open door and decided to hide out.
'We were chasing him across town, but the squad cars couldn't keep up because the go-kart was able to take the corners faster and he was able to get away,' police spokesman Willy Thevissen told reporters.
Police did find his hiding place and were later said to have charged him with driving without a licence and driving a go-kart on a public street, which unsurprisingly is not allowed in Germany.
'He told us he knew driving a go-cart on the street is illegal," the spokesman said.
'But he had purchased the vehicle from a friend and said he had no other way of getting it home.'
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