Posted on 06/15/2022 9:33:54 PM PDT by Morgana
A quick-thinking driver has foiled an alleged car thief by using a forklift to trap her inside the vehicle she was attempting to steal.
Brendan Mills came home to find a woman inside his red Volkswagen Polo at his Waterford West property, south of Brisbane on June 5.
By sheer good fortune he had left the forklift parked beside the car, with the forks facing towards it.
So he immediately jumped into his forklift and hoisted the car up six feet in the air, trapping the alleged car thief inside before calling Queensland police.
The alleged car thief was unable to open the doors to escape earlier because the position of the forks prevented the car doors from opening.
Police video showed an officer opening the door of the car as it is lowered and telling the baffled occupant 'out you get'.
Security footage from the property's cameras showed a woman wandering onto the property at 5.20pm on Sunday June 5.
Police alleged she went inside the house, had a shower and put on clothes she found inside.
A 24-year-old woman was arrested at the property and charged with burglary and unlawful use of a motor vehicle, a Queensland police statement said.
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“... used a forklift to gingerly pick up the car, carry it down the block, and set it in another spot and then went about their business.”
Nice!
Related to paving, a driveway paving company ran a commercial, stating “we come to where you need us”. Why say that? Would they expect us to bring our driveway to their place for repaving?
He’d better watch out… Australia might ban forklifts retroactively.
A creative prosecutor may call this entrapment and kidnapping. I’m sure there are some in the US that would.
Because everyone has a fork lift laying around at home.
Just like riding on air car ad said.
theif = thief
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Old school... I before e except after c
It looks like she does, or she did. An ex- wife or girlfriend. Few women would just march onto an unknown property, "ha[ve] a shower and put on clothes she found inside." Those were probably her clothes, and this was an ongoing domestic dispute.
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