14 June 2006

Breaking News - Police chase through Belconnen

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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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Mav said :

Muttsybignuts said :

^^ Has this police chase been going on for 6 1/2 years???

Why yes and now they are no longer chasing an old Magna but two Perps on a uni-cycle. lol

Muttsybignuts said :

^^ Has this police chase been going on for 6 1/2 years???

Why yes and now they are no longer chasing an old Magna but two Perbs on a uni-cycle. lol

thebrownstreak699:18 am 31 Jan 13

Skidd Marx said :

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….

A six-cylinder Magna is no slouch.

The four cylinder one in this story is though.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd9:17 am 31 Jan 13

thatsnotme said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Pork Hunt said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

This is why we should have to have a license to interwebs

Source?

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Left click? And you call yourself a nerd!

😉

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Pork Hunt said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

This is why we should have to have a license to interwebs

Source?

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Left click? And you call yourself a nerd!

swissbignose11:27 pm 30 Jan 13

Skidd Marx said :

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….

A six-cylinder Magna is no slouch.

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.

Pork Hunt said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

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Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

This is why we should have to have a license to interwebs

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…

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd6:07 pm 30 Jan 13

Pork Hunt said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

This is why we should have to have a license to interwebs

Source?

You want source? Left click, view source code!

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

This is why we should have to have a license to interwebs

Source?

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….

A six-cylinder Magna is no slouch.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd4:09 pm 30 Jan 13

This is why we should have to have a license to interwebs

Muttsybignuts said :

^^ Has this police chase been going on for 6 1/2 years???

Prolly not. This breaking news has already been.

It’s BROKEN NEWS.

MonarchRepublic said :

Muttsybignuts said :

^^ Has this police chase been going on for 6 1/2 years???

Dammit! Beat me to it 🙂

And some people here claim the Cops in Canberra are lazy!

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!

MonarchRepublic2:27 pm 30 Jan 13

Muttsybignuts said :

^^ Has this police chase been going on for 6 1/2 years???

Dammit! Beat me to it 🙂

And some people here claim the Cops in Canberra are lazy!

“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.

Muttsybignuts2:14 pm 30 Jan 13

^^ Has this police chase been going on for 6 1/2 years???

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.

President of Singapore, question time got pushed back half an hour for his lunch.

Caf, correct.

I think there was some sort of Singaporean dignitary in town yesterday. Can’t find anything in the electronic media on it though.

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?

Vic Bitterman11:12 pm 14 Jun 06

Belco.

Nuff said.

Because cops like doughnuts! Well played riotacters, well played.

Absent Diane5:13 pm 14 Jun 06

Maybe the cops had too many krappy kreme duffnuts and were a little hyperactive… maybe suffering hallucinations even…

I thought the Krispy Creme Doughnut place was in Woden not Belco…

dunno if an 80’s magna would be my getaway car of choice.

maybe the quamby carpark had a limited selection ?

Xman, when I see cops hurrying anywhere, I think of Glyn Nicholas’s profane cop, and happy hour at the doughnut shop.

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…

It probably wasn’t all that noticable because so many Canberra people drive like that all the time! (and Queanbeyanites too).

Fast and Furious: the Belco files

Absent Diane2:34 pm 14 Jun 06

well it appears to be something I just missed… because I was driving that way at about exackery 1:30…

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