A TEENAGER'S attempt to take his aunt's car on a joyride did not get

further than his next-door neighbour's front garden, Stirling Sheriff

Court was told. Mark Short, then 15, started up the car, which had been

parked outside his home at Armour Avenue, Cowie, collided with a parked

car, demolished a wall, and ploughed into the garden on November 12,

1993.

Sentence on Short, who turned 17 on Thursday, was deferred until

yesterday, when Sheriff Colin Stein fined him #250 and banned him from

driving for a year.