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'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me'
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I was running through a park once on my way to the gym with a towel wrapped around my right hand and headphones on.
Suddenly a paddywagon came flying past me lights and sirens pulled up and out jumped two coppers.
One had his gun out the other their tazer, yelling at be to drop the weapon and get on the ground.
Very confused Idropped the towel and laid down they came up and kicked around in my towel then asked what I was doing.
I explained I was on my way to the gym etc.
They then said they had a report of an indigenous man matching by description had just broken into a house stole a bunch of jewellery at knife point and ran away right near by.
They didn't lock me up or anything just took my name and went back to looking for the other fella.
There was no other fella
Oh clearly you're a master sage of intuition to be able to declare this unanimously without a shred of proof.