A quiet Sunday morning turned into a scene of chaos for several residents in Ammon, N.B., after a stolen excavator tore through the neighbourhood, causing an estimated $300,000 in damages to properties and the excavator.

Kendall Killam, one of the homeowners on McLaughlin Drive, said she was shocked by what she saw outside her window.

“I got up and looked out my front window and thought maybe there was a car accident,” Killam said.

“But then we found out somebody had stolen an excavator… and they got stuck.”

“He kept going side to side on the streets. Nobody saw it happen. It was in the middle of the night. Usually, it’s extremely quiet here,” she added.

Killam’s property sustained some of the worst damage, with torn-up lawn and roadside ditches marking the trail left by the stolen ma

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