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Oh hai. Read me. Bit of a long story but meh...

Coming home from work tonight at about 10pm, turning onto Great Eastern Hwy from Burswood Drive. (This is the road just down from Burswood traino by the way) I am behind one other car as we come to the give-way sign. At this time I look towards traffic, and notice that we will have to stop & wait, but I also noticed a man running. As I just come to a stop, I hear a big bang & a hand smack my drivers side window. Apart from the holy f**k, not sure what else was going through my head apart from "he just ran straight into my f**king car!" I notice this guy is now on the ground, so I put the window down & ask if he's okay.

To put it nicely, I noticed he was a coloured individual whose decision making would be currently impaired due to un-natural substances being previously consumed.... He pulls himself up & staggers a bit, and then asks if he can "get a lift to the other side of the road where those traffic lights are". At this point the alarm bells were going off because he was running the opposite way to where he apparently wanted to go.

Told him I couldn't because I could only turn one way, but then he walked around the front of my car to the other side. I'd already locked the doors so he couldn't get in, but put my window down a little bit so I could tell him that I couldn't, just as another car came up behind me. He then put his arm into my car & tried to unlock it, but couldn't find where. Just as I was about to tell him to f**k off & was going to take off, I see someone has dragged him away from my window, and then I seen it was cops that were in the car that had come behind me!!! It wasn't a marked car, it was a toyota I think so that's why I didn't think they would be cops. They pulled him away first & then he was on the front quarter panel, then to get him off my car they pulled him & put him to the ground.

Even as he was being dragged away he twice asked if I was gonna give him a lift, once as he was being pulled away & again when one cop had him on his stomach.... :( I don't know if it was just chance that it was a cops in the car that was the first car there, or they happened to be at the traino & see him run into my car & then drove down, but at that point I was pretty thankful to see them, because it meant I didn't have to drive off with someone hanging off my window or have to smack this bastard in the head a few times.

Cop asked me just to check my car for damage after I said he ran into it, but couldn't see any so didn't need to give my details. A few transit guards had also come down towards the end, but at that point I was just spun out over what happened over about this minute & a half so was sort of in shock, am thinking now that I probably should have given my details in case when I look tomorrow in the light if there was any damage but I don't think there will be. Not quite the same as mattyp's thread from a couple of months back but it's sure one of those situations that spin you out.

ok stop reading now k thnx :)

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Yeah the car was undamaged thankfully :( Thing about that though is that until last night by car was a bit dirty, and you could actually see the finger marks running down the door from when he was falling :P

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Back with v2....

Same deal, leaving work tunnel-bound on the Farmer Fwy about an hour ago.... Not many cars on the road, & just after the exit to East Perth it becomes 2 lanes. Nothing behind me, in the left lane with 2 cars in front of me. These cars are going about 70, so naturally I decide to overtake them. Just as I checked the blind spot & I'd noticed a blue shirt running next to the wall separating directions on the freeway but on the other side, and thought it must have been a cop. Did the check, indicated & began moving over.

At the point where I'm half in each lane I notice an olive-skinned man has jumped the barrier & already started running across the freeway. No-one was in the right lane so it made sense (in a weird sort of way :) ), but I was changing lanes so I'm met with a guy standing in the middle of the lane with his arms out hoping like f**k I wasn't going to mow him down.

I was straight onto the brakes, slowed down to about 40/50 I imagine in a very short time & distance, and managed to get between him & the wall. Now if this cop was right behind him it would have been him being hit, but he was just jumping the wall at this time. In my rear view he kept chasing him & I seen a cop car had a car pulled over on the down ramp towards the tunnel, I'd guess it started from there but must have been a good chase, the cop was quite tall & strong looking but not a quick runner, plus the guy running was carrying a couple of things while he was being chased haha, a big & some sort of stick/piece of wood. Rarely a boring drive home for me these days :thumbsup:

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