Mayhem in Manuka

this sort of incident always shows us the “NEW” un-marked police cars on the road….

Yay for the police!

Good on the cops for catching them. Hopefully other little criminals might be a bit more afraid to do the same.

At one point they were all over Curtin as well. Saw lots of cop cars with stop sticks but didn’t see who they were chasing. Must have been every traffic resource they had chasing this one

They’ll no doubt be out on bail before sundown on Friday ready to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting.

16 cop cars involved in the chase?

Have the AFP watched Smokey and the Bandit too many times or what?

What possible benefit can more than 3 or 4 pursuing cars bring?

If there were all in on the chase, was Kenny Koala and his little white car involved too??

miamoto7 said :

I heard from one of the store owners on that street that the Golf belongs to and was driven by a chef from Beluccis… and that he rammed the brown car into the parked traffic to cut it off. She also said that the police in pursuit approached the vehicle and smashed the windows with their batons to get the offender out! Scary stuff!

Of course, its all rumour and heresay for now….

Bent R32’s make me sad 🙁 They are an endangered species ya know!
(Yes, when I read R32 I did double check outside my window before I read the rest of the article, to make sure no-one had knocked mine off…)

On the upside – if the owner of the now bent and broken R32 reads this, I would be more than happy to offer you good cash for your stero and upgraded dash 🙂

Now bring on the flood of people who will complain about police chases being too dangerous….

A great result for the AFP. Love it when they collar these little turds.

Heard today that the little dears who stole a friends much loved classic car, and proceeded to total it, damaged themselves so badly in the process they are still in hospital about a week later.

Unfortunately about the only justice they will receive, as a slap on the wrist will await them when they front court.

just wish he’d shot the extra seconds to show just who was getting out of the big black 4wd

That would be SRS. Specialist Response and Security

Rikstr said :

Oh….we know they would have been the hut hut boys.

Yea I also agree that the unmarked Golf does not make sense but I have seen other unmarked cars that don’t make sense either.

In a place like Canberra there will most likely be an unusually high number of unmarked cars than there would be in other jurisdictions because of the obvious.

ACT Policing have now released a statement:

“Juveniles apprehended after pursuit
Release Date: July 08, 2010

ACT Policing apprehended three juvenile males this afternoon (Thursday 8 July) following a pursuit in Canberra’s south.

About 12:04pm a police K9 patrol in Fisher sighted a stolen early model gold coloured Ford Falcon sedan and attempted to perform a traffic stop.

The vehicle was identified as having been stolen from a car park in Mawson overnight.

The vehicle was pursued by police for around two minutes when the pursuit was terminated in Curtin. A second police vehicle recommenced the pursuit a short time later.

The pursuit ran for approximately 17 minutes in total. The offending vehicle stopped after colliding with two stationary vehicles on Furneaux Street, Griffith. Police immediately apprehended and arrested the vehicle’s occupants.

The alleged offenders, a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old from South Canberra will face the ACT Children’s Court tomorrow morning charged with taking a motor vehicle without authority and traffic offences including unlicensed driving, furious/reckless/dangerous driving and failing to stop. Further charges may be laid.”

Update from AFP:
Juveniles apprehended after pursuit
Release Date: July 08, 2010

ACT Policing apprehended three juvenile males this afternoon (Thursday 8 July) following a pursuit in Canberra’s south.

About 12:04pm a police K9 patrol in Fisher sighted a stolen early model gold coloured Ford Falcon sedan and attempted to perform a traffic stop.

The vehicle was identified as having been stolen from a car park in Mawson overnight.

The vehicle was pursued by police for around two minutes when the pursuit was terminated in Curtin. A second police vehicle recommenced the pursuit a short time later.

The pursuit ran for approximately 17 minutes in total. The offending vehicle stopped after colliding with two stationary vehicles on Furneaux Street, Griffith. Police immediately apprehended and arrested the vehicle’s occupants.

The alleged offenders, a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old from South Canberra will face the ACT Children’s Court tomorrow morning charged with taking a motor vehicle without authority and traffic offences including unlicensed driving, furious/reckless/dangerous driving and failing to stop. Further charges may be laid.

Was it Allofus clocking up a few more fines?

johnboy said :

I just wish he’d shot the extra seconds to show just who was getting out of the big black 4wd.

More cops. He thinks it was (as someone else called them) the hut hut boys. But apparently there was every variety of cops around, from uniformed to tactical to plainclothes detectives.

By his reckoning there were only two young blokes in the bad guys car.

Oh….we know they would have been the hut hut boys.

Yea I also agree that the unmarked Golf does not make sense but I have seen other unmarked cars that don’t make sense either.

Ozhair said :

My workmate and I are both ex-WIN employees. They can shoot their own damn footage 😉

~lolz

My workmate and I are both ex-WIN employees. They can shoot their own damn footage 😉

Ozhair said :

A workmate was in Manuka when it finished. Caught a bit of video on his phone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEkbdWy99VQ

Great work, email it to WIN News

Sounds like the falcon has run into the golf in his attempt to evade police, the golf wouldn’t be a police car.

I saw one of the marked traffic branch cars with its pursuit sirens on heading southbound on Northbourne Ave near Bunda St just after 12, I didn’t look up quick enough to see if it was in pursuit of the falcon at that time.

Sounds like someone “forgot” to pay for their soy latte.

I heard from one of the store owners on that street that the Golf belongs to and was driven by a chef from Beluccis… and that he rammed the brown car into the parked traffic to cut it off. She also said that the police in pursuit approached the vehicle and smashed the windows with their batons to get the offender out! Scary stuff!

Of course, its all rumour and heresay for now….

A workmate was in Manuka when it finished. Caught a bit of video on his phone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEkbdWy99VQ

Oops, I just submitted a post about this kerfuffle (this article wasn’t showing on my RSS reader).

@Spideydog – I know an R32 as an unmarked cop car doesn’t seem right, but it looked to me as though the Golf had rammed/forced the other car off the road. Although I didn’t see the scene until around 1pm when all the fun was over, by the positions the two cars ended up, it certainly didn’t look like a normal traffic bingle.

was on state circle and counted 16 cop cars, mostly unmarked, lights and sirens blaring, the car ran a red light (cnr of kings ave i think) and they all followed, looked well over 100km/h. a few seconds later, another 5 or 6 cop cars, 2 4wd undercover cars and 3 bikes were following… was pretty intense! the car involved in the chase almost took out a car at the traffic lights i was passing, was insane!

Yeah I saw 10 cars both marked & unmarked at 12:15pm chase the brown EA/EB ford out of Barton from National Circuit, down canberra Ave into manuka at high speed. I’m pretty sure the hut hut Special tactics ( dudes with MP5 automatic weapons ) tag along at high speed in their trusty 4×4. It was like being in the midst of an insane version of the Bathurst race. Given the hut hut boys were along for the ride and considering how long it would take to get 10 plod cars all in the same area, I’m guessing this was planned out and the plod got the drop on these drongos while they were trying to pull a job. My guess too is that there was fireams involved in the brown car ( hence the hut hut boys )…either that or the brown car did some circle work on the tactical repsonse groups picnic.
I suspect it wall all become a “nothing to see here, it was just a car crash,move along”.

davecdp said :

do they still get a discount at McDonalds?

Probably, but they were all at weston maccas this morning, doing their duty to get breakfast and ensure it wasnt knocked over again.

“unmarked VW GOLF R32” …. Bah hahahahahahahaha

do they still get a discount at McDonalds?

georgesgenitals said :

Saw the cops hammer past on the way to lunch.

How did you know they were on their way to lunch? Was it the flashing lights?

Saw the cops hammer past on the way to lunch.

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