{"id":250959,"date":"2025-10-30T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250959\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:56:09","slug":"nanaimo-golf-course-says-stolen-truck-driven-onto-green-lit-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250959\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanaimo golf course says stolen truck driven onto green, lit on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A golf course in Nanaimo says police are investigating after a reportedly stolen truck was driven onto the course then set on fire early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Smith, general manager at<a href=\"https:\/\/eaglequestgolf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Eaglequest Golf Nanaimo,<\/a> says firefighters were called to the truck fire around 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A video shows the damaged truck surrounded by fire retardant foam at the edge of the golf course.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was spotted near the Trans-Canada Highway but was actually on the golf course\u2019s property, says Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I guess somebody stole the truck sometime last night, they drove it onto the property, ran across #9 green, did some donuts on that fairway and ended up launching it into some trees and lighting it on fire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently there\u2019s been a rash of those.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith says he was told by firefighters that there have been a few recent incidents of trucks being stolen, then taken for a joyride before being lit on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Smith says the damage to the golf course is superficial, and that it\u2019s been more of a nuisance to deal with than a real blow. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily, not great tires on the truck, so left marks but didn\u2019t dig in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the golf course called the RCMP and started a file. In the meantime, the course is open as usual.<\/p>\n<p>CHEK News has reached out to police for further details.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A golf course in Nanaimo says police are investigating after a reportedly stolen truck was driven onto the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82,1062],"class_list":["post-250959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}