[Shano592 (Shane)]

We had an interesting incident last night ....

As the wind was so strong last night, any telescoping opportunity was non-existent, so I decided to stay in and watch Picard et al's antics on the box.

At about 10:15pm from out on the street, there was the sound of 4 wheels in an uncontrolled slide across road surface. I looked up, and all I saw was the flash of headlights across my second-storey windows.

I heard 2 noises - a whump and then a crunch. Before I knew it, I was downstairs and out the door. I made it to the car, just as the driver was freeing himself from the wreckage. He ran around to the passenger side to free his accomplice (frontal damage, so the fenders had jammed the doors shut), and then they bolted!

However ... genius that he was ... he outran his passenger (whom I assume was his girlfriend) and left her to the wolves - in this case, my neighbour, who chased and caught her a few streets away. He detained her until a divvy van arrived. The driver, meanwhile, was in the wind, jumping fences and running through peoples' yards.

Now, I did say that this guy was a genius.

It was his car! Not stolen, not borrowed. He was on green P's, and somewhat pished! And I think a little stoned too. He managed to leave not only his keys in the ignition (car, house, other), but he also left his ID, which matched the name on the Police database for the car.

Waste of a perfectly good XR6. Along with my retaining wall. That was the crunching sound. He has tried to drift around the corner at at least 60km/h, completely lost any grip and slid across the road ... through the drainage ditch (the whumping sound of dirt flying everywhere), into my property, damaging my dirt driveway, and crunching through the wooden retaining wall.

Amazingly, the airbags didn't deploy (I'm guessing due to the more significant sideways motion) which means the car may not be written off. His insurance, however ...

Once he realised that his passenger was in custody, he presented himself at the Police station (about an hour after the crash), where he was charged with driving with an alcohol reading on P's. I hope they drug tested him too.

I will upload bad, late night, dark property photos once I get my phone to meet with my laptop.

/END RANT


TL;DR - Bloody hoons. Crashed a car into my yard, damaged my property.