(JERSEY JOURNAL) — An apparently inebriated man stole a bulldozer from a West Hudson Park construction site and wreaked havoc in the park as he tried to drive it home from Harrison to Newark on Friday, officials said.
“He said he was cold and was trying to ride it home to the Ironbound section of Newark,” Harrison Police Capt. Mike Green told The Jersey Journal about Christopher Russell, 30, who was arrested that night.
Inside the park the bulldozer leveled signs, three benches, two steel bollards, a tree, a drinking fountain, fencing and construction materials, and it also damaged a bridge parapet, tore up grass and left a maze of tractor tracks, officials said.
The bulldozer eventually made it out of the park and struck a parked car.