Reddit hunts down streamer's stolen 'dream car', finds confused man who demands $10,000 before fleeing to massage parlour
Two days ago, tragedy struck. In a video posted to YouTube(opens in new tab), former most-subbed Twitch streamer of all time Ludwig Ahgren announced that his «prize possession»—an imported 1997 Subaru Sambar microvan—had been stolen. It had been taken from outside the warehouse where Ahgren films his podcast—The Yard—during LA's recent rainstorms(opens in new tab). The bad weather had knocked out the site's power, meaning people leaving had been forced to leave the electric gate wide open and the Sambar ripe for the taking.
As reported by Kotaku(opens in new tab), it didn't take the internet long to track the van down. Barely a day after Ahgren posted his video, a Reddit user named iwantaguineapig(opens in new tab) posted a video of the Sambar—parked in such a way that its licence plate was unreadable—in the LA neighbourhood of Sylmar.
After a little bit of a runaround (the van had vanished the first time Ahgren, who is currently in Texas, could get someone to Sylmar to scope out the scene), Ahgren's assistant Nick Yingling and collaborator Anthony Bruno tracked down the van in the same spot that evening. Unable to get the cops to come and lend a hand, they decided to just use their own van key and take it back themselves. There was just one problem: Someone was in it.
SAVING PRIVATE SANBARi’ll tell the whole story on the pod next week pic.twitter.com/EcIF1kANeXMarch 1, 2023
As you can see in the video above, Yingling only noticed the driver's shadow—emitting a breathless «There's-someone-in-the-car!»—at the precise moment they opened the door, prompting the pair to beat feet away from the van in fear of a confrontation neither of them were prepared for. But instead of a hardened criminal, they found a slightly
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