A pair of shameless grinning burglar teens posed for the camera and laughed and clowned around after a judge let them walk free from court.
Elliott Boothby and Keiron Stewart were spared jail at Hull Crown Court and celebrated their good fortune by dancing and joking around as they left the building.
The judge let them off without a jail sentence but said they were lucky to avoid custody.
They appeared in court after being involved in a late-night house raid followed by a high-speed chase in a stolen car.
But the judge warned them: "You haven't got away with it."
But this appears to have fallen on deaf ears and within minutes, they were celebrating their narrow escape, with one of them pulling faces and waving his arms around.
Boothby, 18, and Stewart, 18, of Hull, admitted burglary and stealing a car on June 1.
Boothby also admitted failing to provide a blood sample and having no insurance and driving licence on that day as well as burglary of a shed on April 28.
Ben Hammersley, prosecuting, said that the keys to a woman's VW Scirocco car were stolen during a burglary in Cottingham, after intruders entered while the occupier was watching TV.
The keys had been hung up near the door. A wallet, containing bank cards and a driving licence, was also taken.
The car was stolen before 1am and police launched a search of the area.
Boothby drove the car at 70mph in 20mph and 30mph areas and a tyre-bursting stinger device was used by cops, which the car hit, causing it to hit the kerb and spin before coming to a stop.
Mr Hammersley said: "Both defendants ran from the vehicle."
Boothby was found shortly afterwards hiding in a nearby garden and Stewart was discovered by a dog officer 25 minutes later in a wooded area.
He told police: "I will be faster next time. If I had been driving, I would have been faster."
Boothby later refused to provide a blood sample.
In an earlier separate incident, Boothby broke into a garden shed in Hull, during the night and stole fishing equipment, valued at £1,100, and cider.
A wheelie bin was used to climb over a high fence and he drank from a bottle of cider that he found but was identified from DNA on the discarded drink.
Cathy Kioko-Gilligan, mitigating, said unemployed Boothby had shown remorse and had no previous convictions.
"This is undoubtedly appalling offending," she said.
"It's a complete mystery to his mother why he has behaved the way he has.
"It's immaturity that has brought him before the courts today.
"He left his DNA at the scene and thought he had got away with it.
"He bitterly regrets his offending and recognises the impact his offending has on others."
Marc Luxford, representing Stewart, said that the teenager had struggled with drugs, mostly cannabis and some use of cocaine, and there had been troubles at home.
Stewart hoped to join the Army and was working towards that but this would probably now be impossible because of his convictions.
The burglary was serious because the occupant was at home, although Stewart claimed he stayed outside the house and played a slightly lesser role. He was remorseful and had no previous convictions.
Boothby was given an 18-month suspended custodial sentence, 150 hours' unpaid work, 20 days' rehabilitation and a three-month monitoring order. He was banned from driving for one year.
Stewart was given a 16-month suspended custodial sentence, 150 hours' unpaid work, 10 days' rehabilitation and a three-month monitoring order.
Recorder Peter Makepeace QC told Boothby and Stewart: "Never, ever be so stupid as to commit this sort of offending again.
"I'm not stupid, I'm sure you will think initially you have got away with it.
"You haven't got away with it. Make another mistake like this and you will go to prison.
"That's your one and only chance. Don't let me down now. Please do not let me down because, if you do, I will find out."
He said that he would make sure that the next judge would be told about the chance that they had been given.
"You will never know how lucky you are," said Recorder Makepeace.
Within minutes of being spared custody, Boothby and Stewart both bounded out of the court building laughing and joking.
Stewart, meanwhile, messing around and making gestures of delight and defiance to bystanders.
