Update to the road rage story

At about 1pm today, I was driving along Hindmarsh Dr through Woden and just after Athllon Dr I saw a late model silver Holden Commodore SS, with red P plates. It was on the middle of the grassy medium strip. No one was in or near it, it was just sitting there. I drove back past a touch after 4pm and it wasn’t there anymore. I didn’t get a look at the rego and I didn’t want to rubberneck and cause an accident, there was a lot of traffic around.
It might have been the same car from the now infamous incident?

Evil_Kitten said :

I hardly think it’s made up these people were spotted doing similar things at other times, and were actually mentioned in a previous RA thread?

I can’t remember seeing any mention of the same people doing similar things. There was one other mention of the same rego, but nothing else.

Evil_Kitten said :

I hardly think it’s made up these people were spotted doing similar things at other times, and were actually mentioned in a previous RA thread?

I’m not necessarily sure this is the case either. Just putting the idea out there. Some evidence would suggest it could be the case.

After the classic water cooler chat at work today, it seems things similar to this happen in Canberra a whole lot more then I ever would have thought. It also seems (amongst my wool mates at least) that people don’t bother reporting these things (although they assure me they would if it reached the damage/violence stage).

I hardly think it’s made up these people were spotted doing similar things at other times, and were actually mentioned in a previous RA thread?

Maybe the story was made up and it is the false allegations that are being taken very seriously?

Curioser and curiouser.

thatsnotme said :

I don’t get this. In the original story, gmckay424 said that the police attended the scene after the attack, and took details. Why do ACT Policing now need to rely on him checking his email to progress this – surely the police should have more than enough details on record to contact him (or his wife) directly?

Maybe they need him to provide the case number so they know what case he’s talking about in the OP, or they need to get more information from him.

I hope they do catch the mongrels though, I know I’d be terrified if that happened to me and I hate to think of people like that out on the roads.

If this story now has some profile with the police then that is a good outcome. They can sort this out.

gmckay424’s silence is rather self-incriminating. If it turned out he made the whole thing up could he be charged with an offence?

Jivrashia said :

Tooks said :

The original story is full of holes and I have a theory about why he may have posted it, but I’ll give the guy the benefit of the doubt and see what the next update is. Should be interesting…

It seems you’ve read something that I have completely missed.

One of the occupants then struck the rear quarter window with one of their weapons with such force that it shattered showering glass all over our 4 month old baby, who was in a baby capsule in the back seat.

I for one am pretty satisfied with the information provided. It either happened, or the OP is lying, which I find hard to believe.

Things aren’t just black and white. There is also embellishing stories, not telling the whole story, telling half truths …….. (I am not insinuating this is the case in this story either) The only people that know EXACTLY what occurred, are the ones DIRECTLY involved in this incident.

It appears it is being investigated, so hopefully there is a resolution to the matter.

Tooks said :

The original story is full of holes and I have a theory about why he may have posted it, but I’ll give the guy the benefit of the doubt and see what the next update is. Should be interesting…

It seems you’ve read something that I have completely missed.

One of the occupants then struck the rear quarter window with one of their weapons with such force that it shattered showering glass all over our 4 month old baby, who was in a baby capsule in the back seat.

I for one am pretty satisfied with the information provided. It either happened, or the OP is lying, which I find hard to believe.

Stevian said :

Eppo said :

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

If the police responded to every rumour and hint of a rumour, they would have no time to do real policing like stopping speeders and other motorists who regard the road rules as casual suggestions. Surely the “victim” would report the crime, it has gotten more action than it deserves.

If you’d bothered to read the original topic, you’d know that the person has (reportedly) called police.

Eppo said :

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

If the police responded to every rumour and hint of a rumour, they would have no time to do real policing like stopping speeders and other motorists who regard the road rules as casual suggestions. Surely the “victim” would report the crime, it has gotten more action than it deserves.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Eppo said :

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

Perhaps, just perhaps it had never been reported to the police…

Or perhaps, with the scant details provided in the OP (a Saturday night a few weeks back on the Monaro Highway hardly places it well), it was easier for ACT Policing to follow up the complaint from CC1234 via RiotACT – where the complaint originated… The fact this story has gone somewhat viral will have added to the “highest levels of ACT Policing” suddenly being interested…

Hope the perps get caught and handled in an appropriate manner.

If the Police have resourcing too limited to follow this incident up, perhaps they need to seek community help to follow up on these sorts of incidents…

Perhaps the rego actually belongs to a silver Commodore S (not SS) owned by a single mother of two children? And never involved in a road rage incident at all?

Or perhaps it is actually the rego plate seen on the back of BimboGeeks ‘Lake Turdey Griffen Ghost Ship’? You know … the one that ate the Commodore full of Queanbeyan bogans on Commonwealth Ave bridge and kept the plate as a souvenir to warn off all the other Queanbeyan bogans.

The original story is full of holes and I have a theory about why he may have posted it, but I’ll give the guy the benefit of the doubt and see what the next update is. Should be interesting…

Diggety said :

The suspense continues, find out next week’s episode of TheRiotACT!

Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel?

Is CC1234 be a coked up road-rager, on his way to a new herion addiction at the Hume Hilton?
Could this all be just an affair cover up by gmckay424’s cheating wife?
Were gmcay424’s fingers too fat and keyed in the wrong rego?

The suspense continues, find out next week’s episode of TheRiotACT!

So let’s just all calm down and wait and see?

The Frots said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Eppo said :

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

Perhaps, just perhaps it had never been reported to the police…

I’m thinking that way.

The original story clearly states that police were called, and came to the scene.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Eppo said :

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

Perhaps, just perhaps it had never been reported to the police…

I’m thinking that way.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Eppo said :

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

Perhaps, just perhaps it had never been reported to the police…

I’m willing to give the OP the benefit of the doubt. There’s nothing for him to gain by lying.

If it’s a troll thread, it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen.

I don’t get this. In the original story, gmckay424 said that the police attended the scene after the attack, and took details. Why do ACT Policing now need to rely on him checking his email to progress this – surely the police should have more than enough details on record to contact him (or his wife) directly?

Eppo said :

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

Perhaps, just perhaps it had never been reported to the police…

I’d like to know why it takes a story going viral to get any serious action. Maybe the ‘highest levels of ACT Policing’ can explain?

“We’ve decided to remove the rego details for now”

Yes, better to be safe than sorry. I’m sure the couple of hundred cars with it stuck to the dashboard will ensure it isn’t forgotten.

Probably has something to do with the amount of outrage that story garnered, and the amount of people who posted the information to facebook, it was only a matter of time before someone influential became aware of the severity.
I’m due to start a night-time course at the Woden Tafe this week, and while I know there are d*ckheads everywhere, I’d like there to be one less carload if possible. Let’s hope these cowards are caught soon, I hope their mates dob them in. Otherwise, we can only rely on natural selection, and it only seems to be the good who die young.

Good result JB. Let’s hope it pans out okay.