Posted on 02/20/2007 4:14:54 PM PST by naturalman1975
"CAN you give me one minute?" With those words bus driver Michael Simon leapt from his bus, chased a thief 80m, tackled him to the ground and made a citizen's arrest yesterday.
The 41-year-old was behind the wheel of a 423 bus on busy King St, Newtown, in Sydney's inner west when he pulled up at a stop at 11.30am (AEDT).
It was then he noticed a man running out of a book store chased by a woman yelling: "Stop, stop, stop." Mr Simon stopped his bus with up to 30 people on board and excused himself.
"My first reaction was the safety of my passengers, so I secured the bus and then turned to them and said, 'Can you give me one minute?'," he said.
The State Transit driver of nine years then leapt from the bus and chased the thief 80m before tackling him to the ground.
"I used to play a bit of football so it came in handy," Mr Simon said.
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I keep trying to get freepers interested in citizen-arresting Jane Fonda for Treason.
No street justice?
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