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26-12-2002, 03:29pm
Christmas day was spent with my family at Portarlington.
Nice and easy all the way home (in car with in-laws in back), knowing boys in blue will be about in force. Just before westgate bridge, their is a family stuck in the third lane out. Blown tyre, and the tread is all chewed up in the guard. They cannot move the car, and don't know what to do. I stop in the emergency stopping lane, run out to them, and they're in a sticky situation. They find out at this point in time they have no handle for their jack, so I grab ours, and we start changing the tyre, with another car blocking the lane we were working in. Get the car up, undo the wheel nuts, and the boys in blue appear. They yell at us, tell us to retighten the nuts (although we are almost through) lower the car, and drive it off the highway. They would not believe it wouldn't drive. It did in the end cause I hacked the tread off with the crow bar.
Anyway, there are now one unmarked car and one candy car here, and they are just making themselves important by being dramatic and asking questions, when one uniform runs up to another. "We gotta go - there's a runner". They go to their car, wait a minute and pull out when an R1 (I think) goes past, trying hard to blend in with the traffic. Two or three minutes later another candy car with lights and sirens who was THAT far behind his chase goes past. They had the poor sod pulled over on the bridge, and the airwing were just pulling away towards the city. I think he may have got away if we hadn't had the two cars occupied where we did.
Nice and easy all the way home (in car with in-laws in back), knowing boys in blue will be about in force. Just before westgate bridge, their is a family stuck in the third lane out. Blown tyre, and the tread is all chewed up in the guard. They cannot move the car, and don't know what to do. I stop in the emergency stopping lane, run out to them, and they're in a sticky situation. They find out at this point in time they have no handle for their jack, so I grab ours, and we start changing the tyre, with another car blocking the lane we were working in. Get the car up, undo the wheel nuts, and the boys in blue appear. They yell at us, tell us to retighten the nuts (although we are almost through) lower the car, and drive it off the highway. They would not believe it wouldn't drive. It did in the end cause I hacked the tread off with the crow bar.
Anyway, there are now one unmarked car and one candy car here, and they are just making themselves important by being dramatic and asking questions, when one uniform runs up to another. "We gotta go - there's a runner". They go to their car, wait a minute and pull out when an R1 (I think) goes past, trying hard to blend in with the traffic. Two or three minutes later another candy car with lights and sirens who was THAT far behind his chase goes past. They had the poor sod pulled over on the bridge, and the airwing were just pulling away towards the city. I think he may have got away if we hadn't had the two cars occupied where we did.