SG teen learnt how to hot-wire motorcycles from YouTube to steal them


The teen, who cannot be named as he had committed the offences while he was under 18, was sentenced to at least a year’s reformative training. — Photo by Bill Oxford on Unsplash

SINGAPORE: A 17-year-old youth taught himself to hot-wire motorcycles by watching YouTube videos so he could steal the motorbikes with his friends.

He would cut the ignition wires to get the engine going, the court heard.

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