Car stolen with baby inside - police asking for public's help

Nylex_Clock said :

It’s arseholes like this that ruin it for everyone. People hear about this kind of thing and decide they won’t put themselves at risk by trying to help out strangers.

Same as what Ivan Milat did – this country used to be full of backpackers hitch-hiking around and giving Australia the benefit of the resulting cultural commerce. No more. Unless they hang out around backpacker hostels, young Australians are now far less likely to enjoy the benefits of meeting young, educated, European travellers.

Yes, Ivan did give us serial-killers a bad name.

Nylex_Clock said :

It’s arseholes like this that ruin it for everyone. People hear about this kind of thing and decide they won’t put themselves at risk by trying to help out strangers.

Same as what Ivan Milat did – this country used to be full of backpackers hitch-hiking around and giving Australia the benefit of the resulting cultural commerce. No more. Unless they hang out around backpacker hostels, young Australians are now far less likely to enjoy the benefits of meeting young, educated, European travellers.

It was very generous of this young woman to stop and offer help, but in most places in Australia and the world now it was, unfortunately, naive. Even more so when she had a child with her.

I stopped recently to assist a woman with a flat tyre on a remote country road, but I was in a fire truck with other volunteer firefighters, I knew the woman slightly and she knew me, and in other circumstances I would have kept a very safe distance for her sake (fear) and mine (potential for goons hiding in her back seat).

IP

It’s arseholes like this that ruin it for everyone. People hear about this kind of thing and decide they won’t put themselves at risk by trying to help out strangers.

Same as what Ivan Milat did – this country used to be full of backpackers hitch-hiking around and giving Australia the benefit of the resulting cultural commerce. No more. Unless they hang out around backpacker hostels, young Australians are now far less likely to enjoy the benefits of meeting young, educated, European travellers.

willo said :

I was driving from duffy to gungahlin during the ending period of this incident and police cars / bikes/ paddy wagons were everywhere when we got to palmerston an undercover car had one side of kosiosko blocked off and a paddy wagon sped past us and parked across the nearer side blocking it off. I am very happy to hear that it all ended well but this incident has made me wonder about a few things I will probably never know the answer to.
Did this scumbag actually own the “broken down” car or was it one he had previously stolen or was the wanker just standing next to a car that had been left on the side of the road broken down hoping to wave someone down?
This was a very serious incident and was treated as such by police and media so we all heard all about it but I wonder just how many similar carjackings occur in canberra that we dont hear about? That is I mean if this lady didnt have her baby in the backseat we probably would not have heard of this one either.

Just in relation to your last paragraph, there are very few car jackings in Canberra. The handful I can remember got a run in the media.

I’m sure when he appears before the court in Canberra,rather than being reprimanded, he will be recommended for the Order of Australia for his unselfish actions in putting himself at risk of being apprehended when he bravely placed the baby on the porch.

bundah said :

Apparently he was considerate enough to leave the baby in a stroller at the side of a house which he then burgled. It is then believed that he robbed a chemist looking for oxycontin some three hours later.

Yet another addict acting irrationally looking for something to numb the pain…

They don’t usually report the cash haul, as that encourages other people. That was a substantial haul. I think I read somewhere recently that Oxy has overtaken street heroin in usage.

IP

Apparently he was considerate enough to leave the baby in a stroller at the side of a house which he then burgled. It is then believed that he robbed a chemist looking for oxycontin some three hours later.

Yet another addict acting irrationally looking for something to numb the pain…

I was driving from duffy to gungahlin during the ending period of this incident and police cars / bikes/ paddy wagons were everywhere when we got to palmerston an undercover car had one side of kosiosko blocked off and a paddy wagon sped past us and parked across the nearer side blocking it off. I am very happy to hear that it all ended well but this incident has made me wonder about a few things I will probably never know the answer to.
Did this scumbag actually own the “broken down” car or was it one he had previously stolen or was the wanker just standing next to a car that had been left on the side of the road broken down hoping to wave someone down?
This was a very serious incident and was treated as such by police and media so we all heard all about it but I wonder just how many similar carjackings occur in canberra that we dont hear about? That is I mean if this lady didnt have her baby in the backseat we probably would not have heard of this one either.

I read that the bonnet was up when the guy jumped in and drove off, and it eventually detached – the Canberra Times report says the part was found “no more than 10metres away from the car”. Same report also says the baby was found with a bottle and a toy in the stroller, so I’m guessing he took the stroller out (possibly it was in the back seat and not the boot) and set the baby up before legging it.

I thought he tried quite hard to do something semi-ok with the baby too.

The bonnet was off cos it was up when he drove off, and then fell off. (i think he clamed he needed a jump start, then leaped in her car.)

Still – the panic that mum must have been in for 2 hours til the baby was found and all ok will have taken years off her life I’d say.