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Mean_R34

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I was travelling outbound on the Westgate Fwy tonight and it took me 40mins from Kingsway to the Shell servo at the base of the Westgate. I decided to pull up there, rather than sit in traffic.

Not long after, I hear a massive burnout and turn around to see a divvy van doing a U-turn. The burnout was done by the car they were chasing. A V8 VN Commodore. The divvy goes onto a grassy median strip, knocks down a post concreted into the ground, back wheels launching into the air (scraping underneath) and it's off into the Shell fuelling area.

The Commodore races thru the fuelling zone and because of the gridlocked traffic, tries to go straight onto the fwy, off-road style. Runs over a tap, water gushing everywhere, goes sideways and crashes through some pool fencing where it gets stuck.

He then legs it through the KFC drive through where a few of us were standing. He looks desperate and is screaming to people for their keys. No one obliges, so he sprints on foot towards the bridge. By this stage 2 police officers are legging it after him. People are runnign around saying "LOck you cars! Hide your keys!"

He tries to get into a passenger door of a 4WD stuck on the on-ramp, when a policewoman lets fly with a large can of capsicum spray. By this stage it's goodnight Irene and he's dazed. They tackle him to the ground, cuff him and haul him off to the car.

We all thought it may have been today's gunman, but he was a skanky aussie 26-27 yrs old. The gumnan description was 19 yrs old and of Spanish appearace. A policeman later confirmed it wasn't the gunman and that hes still at large.

Anyway, it made for an eventful drive home.

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..much of a burnout?

Should have been clearer. It was clear witnessing it that the police weren't after him for doing a burnout. He must have been "on the list" for something worse, judging by the way the divvy launched over a concrete sunk bollard.

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Should have been clearer. It was clear witnessing it that the police weren't after him for doing a burnout. He must have been "on the list" for something worse, judging by the way the divvy launched over a concrete sunk bollard.

Hmmm, but i bet that once they saw him doin the burnout, there hunger to catch him must've increased exponentially to make sure that the full force of the hoon law was enforced.

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We got you for two counts of aggravated assault with intent to cause gbh, three charges of sexual assault and the Kings Park murders...but you took it too far when you decided to break traction. You made it personal. Now you're going away for a long, long time.

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We got you for two counts of aggravated assault with intent to cause gbh, three charges of sexual assault and the Kings Park murders...but you took it too far when you decided to break traction. You made it personal. Now you're going away for a long, long time.

LOL all too true. How the judges dont throw the book at real criminals and only at motorists we will never know.

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Oh yeah, that was supposed to be said in a South Park detective sort of voice, you know the ridiculous "I'm gonna show you something and I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GONNA LIKE IT" tone...

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