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One of the town’s most experienced drivers has accidentally parked their car inside a local two dollar shop this afternoon instead of out the front.
At 94-years-old, Fred Rase of Betoota Heights is the second-oldest driver in town after Gloria Overell, mother to The Advocate’s editor Clancy and his brother, Clive, who is currently serving 49 years in prison for poisoning dogs in Machattie Park.
Police and ambulance crews attended Stacks Cash & Carry on Main Street at approximately 3pm and found Fred’s Toyota Camry parked inside the shop with the engine still running.
Mr Rase initially told police he parked his car out the front and doesn’t know how it came to be in the shop but ultimately
Witnesses have told The Advocate that it was a scene of absolute bedlam as Fred careened into Stacks.
“He’s got the pedals mixed up I reckon because he pulled in nice and steady then took off into the shop like shit off a shovel,” said one witness.
“Fred get out and locked it like nothing happened. The mind boggles, it does. There was a bloke with a visibly broken pelvis screaming on the floor in aisle six and Fredn just looked at him like he was crazy,”
“There has to be an alternative to old people driving. I could have fiftenn schooners and still be able to drive better than that. Honest to all the Gods, mate. Even the ones that frown upon drinking, I tell you what.”
Police have refused to press charges against Mr Ruse, even after he spat on one of them for suggesting he hand in his lisence.
As for the injured man, he was transported to Royal Betoota Base Hospital in a critical but stable condition and is not expected to make a full recovery.
More to come.
