Posted on 06/21/2008 7:28:21 AM PDT by Daffynition
A forty-year-old speed camera operator in Victoria, Australia was frightened yesterday by a man armed with an ax. The operator parked on Wedge Road in Carrum Downs at around 7:30pm. After turning on the camera, he relaxed in the passenger's seat as the automated machinery proceeded to generate citations ready for mailing to the owners of passing vehicles.
At 10:30pm, the operator was startled by the sight of an ax shattering the driver's side window of his vehicle. The axman poked his ax toward the operator a few times before leaving the scene. The operator was unharmed, only suffering a slight cut to his finger from glass shards. The speed camera car's door suffered extensive damage.
Police are now looking for the axman, described as 5 foot 10 inches tall wearing a dark jacket, dark pants and a beanie. A police dog's search of the area failed to turn up evidence of the axman's whereabouts, but it did succeed in uncovering an elderly man's marijuana growing operation.
Well then .... the operation was a success.
Is this the way it always works? The violent punk gets away, and the mellow old dude gets busted?
Ahhhh..... to have a government job.
Operating automated machinery, another classic government job.
...and counseling for emotional distress thrown in for good measure.
Send the pipple’s undercover agents to hire the Austrailian Axman and bring him to America. The pipple have much work for him here ... LOL
Sounds to me like the guy with the axe didn’t finish the job.
After turning on the camera, he relaxed in the passenger’s seat
Ahhhh..... to have a government job.
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Fool...If it was a government position they would have contracted out the job of turning on the camera.....right after their two hour lunch break.
What happened there?
“Well then .... the operation was a success.”
Many Freepers would agree with you.
I’d like to know the story behind that little scene.
As far as I know ... “Pick-axes stick in a car of a Bulgarian businessman in Burgas, Tuesday, 27 September 2005. Local authorities are looking into the possibility that the vandalism could be an act of revenge against the businessman, who is a contractor in Burgas. EPA/BTA +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++”
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