Police in South Carolina engaged in a not-so-hot pursuit as they chased a tractor excavator for more than an hour at the speed an average adult walks.

A man was in custody after a Houston Fire Department ambulance was stolen from outside Ben Taub Hospital's emergency room Wednesday evening, police said. Two paramedics had just dropped off a patient at the hospital when a man who has not been identified took the ambulance and led police on a 30-minute chase that ended near Holmes and Almeda,