9 December 2013

Well these persons of interest look reasonably distinctive...

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persons of interest

ACT Policing is seeking to identify two women who were involved in the theft of a piece of a statue in Petri Plaza on Sunday (December 8) morning.

Around 12.30am the Three Fat Men statue in Petri Plaza, Civic was vandalised and the smallest ‘fat man’ taken.

Police would like to speak to the women pictured in the CCTV footage.

Police are urging anyone with information which can assist in identifying the two women, or anyone who witnessed the property damage to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via www.act.crimestoppers.com.au. Information can be provided anonymously.

[Courtesy ACT Policing]

UPDATE: This just in:

The statue has been handed in at City Police Station this afternoon.

Enquiries are continuing into the incident.

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Gungahlin Al10:27 am 10 Dec 13

PantsMan said :

Girls like that never leave Civic with the smallest fat man at 12.30 am on a Sunday morning.

Classic!

milkman said :

CraigT said :

Shan12 said :

johnboy said :

Called On the Staircase.

Supposed to be 4.

Plod must have been distracted. Can’t imagine for the life of me by what…

Let me guess, judging by their shabby clothes they live in gov housing, go by the names of shazzer etc…

…and they listen to rap music.

Who was it who was complaining here about how little use “grainy CCTV images” would be?

Probably me. Colour me pleasantly surprised.

Quite possibly me too, tthough I’m going to be a little more circumspect. This is (are?) a new camera. Compare with the story in the CT this week about the Durham pub. CCTV quality is always going to be dependent on age, quality/cost of equipment, maintenance and so on. And whether there is anybody watching (clearly on this occasion there wasn’t). The deterrent value of the camera on this occasion was zero. The investigative and probative value much higher. Maybe the publicity will improve the future deterrent value, but that’s a reasonably long shot. Deterrence and drunkenness are not entirely compatible (I’m referring to CCTV in city centres generally, not this incident).

IP

Shan12 said :

johnboy said :

Called On the Staircase.

Supposed to be 4.

Plod must have been distracted. Can’t imagine for the life of me by what…

Let me guess, judging by their shabby clothes they live in gov housing, go by the names of shazzer etc…

No, it’s their behaviour that gives it away.

CraigT said :

Shan12 said :

johnboy said :

Called On the Staircase.

Supposed to be 4.

Plod must have been distracted. Can’t imagine for the life of me by what…

Let me guess, judging by their shabby clothes they live in gov housing, go by the names of shazzer etc…

…and they listen to rap music.

Who was it who was complaining here about how little use “grainy CCTV images” would be?

Probably me. Colour me pleasantly surprised.

PantsMan said :

Girls like that never leave Civic with the smallest fat man at 12.30 am on a Sunday morning.

Now if it had been a statue of an ADFA boy, it’d be more believable.

I can’t believe that the high cost of public art doesn’t provide enough strength in the materials to stop a couple of skinny teenage girls.

johnboy said :

The statue has now been handed in to police.

We should all blame Simon Corbell, he started this fad by removing the statue of limitations
http://the-riotact.com/restrictions-on-sexual-assault-reporting-removed/120466

Shan12 said :

johnboy said :

Called On the Staircase.

Supposed to be 4.

Plod must have been distracted. Can’t imagine for the life of me by what…

Let me guess, judging by their shabby clothes they live in gov housing, go by the names of shazzer etc…

…and they listen to rap music.

Who was it who was complaining here about how little use “grainy CCTV images” would be?

AAMC said :

Looks like she is making a call, and we know the time and location, Should be pretty easy to ID with the assistance of a couple of mobile call service providers.

Assuming she hasn’t nicked the phone too

Looks like she is making a call, and we know the time and location, Should be pretty easy to ID with the assistance of a couple of mobile call service providers.

Might as well have taken a selfie and put it on the AFP facebook page….

How do you know they didn’t?

Anyway, it’ll even up the gender balance in the stocks.

I wonder if they had just got married…

IP

Straight out of a 90’s music video.

It will be nicely wrapped under someones Xmas tree by now.

Girls like that never leave Civic with the smallest fat man at 12.30 am on a Sunday morning.

johnboy said :

Called On the Staircase.

Supposed to be 4.

Plod must have been distracted. Can’t imagine for the life of me by what…

Let me guess, judging by their shabby clothes they live in gov housing, go by the names of shazzer etc…

The all seeing eye…Johnboy http://youtu.be/vVTKHI5ovyc

I thought the statue was called Staircase and there were four of the fat men 🙁

Called On the Staircase.

Supposed to be 4.

Plod must have been distracted. Can’t imagine for the life of me by what…

neanderthalsis1:16 pm 09 Dec 13

And here I was thinking that it would be a major undertaking involving angle grinders and maybe an oxy torch. It seems like all you need is two possibly mildly intoxicated teenage girls and a bit of effort and you can score yourself a Fat Man.

certainly makes a change from spotty teenage boys in hoodies.

a proud day for gender equality!

The statue has now been handed in to police.

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