At 1:30pm (10 minutes ago as I write this), what appeared to be a blue/grey late 80s model Magna came flying down Chandler St and turned, tires squealing and smoking, onto Benjamin Way in front of Belconnen Mall. The car was pursued by two unmarked Police cars into the Westfield multistorey carpark, with a third (marked) police car following along Chandler Street about 20 seconds later.
The perpetrators showed a marked disregard for human life by driving dangerously through an area heavy with lunch-time pedestrian traffic. One wonders if this was a deliberate ploy to increase the chances of the pursuing police calling off the chase.
Anyone else observe this? Presumably the full story will eventually become public.
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well it appears to be something I just missed… because I was driving that way at about exackery 1:30…
Fast and Furious: the Belco files
It probably wasn’t all that noticable because so many Canberra people drive like that all the time! (and Queanbeyanites too).
I was in the Mall at the time and did see four uniformed police types sprinting down the escalators at the food court end. I just thought someone must selling Krispy Kremes in the car park…
Xman, when I see cops hurrying anywhere, I think of Glyn Nicholas’s profane cop, and happy hour at the doughnut shop.
dunno if an 80′s magna would be my getaway car of choice.
maybe the quamby carpark had a limited selection ?
A magna?
Kind of reminds me when Sideshow Bob stole the Wright brothers aircraft in the Simpsons and everyone was chasing him, at a crawling pace….
I thought the Krispy Creme Doughnut place was in Woden not Belco…
Maybe the cops had too many krappy kreme duffnuts and were a little hyperactive… maybe suffering hallucinations even…
Because cops like doughnuts! Well played riotacters, well played.
Belco.
Nuff said.
So I’m guessing this has nothing to do with the motorcade led by about 20 police cars that stopped traffic on Commonwealth Avenue bridge yesterday arvo then?
I think there was some sort of Singaporean dignitary in town yesterday. Can’t find anything in the electronic media on it though.
Caf, correct.
President of Singapore, question time got pushed back half an hour for his lunch.
That’s right, I read something about how he stated that they (Singapore) would not get rid of the death penalty.
I think this is the same guy that came flying down my side of the road on William Hovel at 1pm. I was driving North, he was going South – almost in my lane! Scary stuff – I thought he was going to drive into us. He was being followed by 2 marked police bikes at this point.
^^ Has this police chase been going on for 6 1/2 years???
“Anyone else observe this? Presumably the full story will eventually become public.”
I can’t wait to go grammar police on the media release
In the meantime, I hope the offenders take a cactus to the rectum.
Muttsybignuts said :
Dammit! Beat me to it
And some people here claim the Cops in Canberra are lazy!
MonarchRepublic said :
My Bad! I don’t know how to delete my comment, but the information matched my search… All except the date, which I didn’t notice until after the fact. Whoops!
Muttsybignuts said :
Prolly not. This breaking news has already been.
It’s BROKEN NEWS.
This is why we should have to have a license to interwebs
Thumper said :
A six-cylinder Magna is no slouch.
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
Source?
Pork Hunt said :
You want source? Left click, view source code!
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
No, this is why some of us pay to subscribe.Then we have five useful minutes to delete anything out-of-date, silly, badly spelt or too nasty.
We smell like roses, I tell you…
Pork Hunt said :
Ctrl+Alt+F4
Skidd Marx said :
A late 80′s Magna didn’t come in a six-cylinder. Unless you were deliberately aiming for a non sequitur. In which case, an espresso-ladened banana milkshake is awesome.
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
Left click? And you call yourself a nerd!