This Town's Notoriety
Every Saturday I train my down in Adelaide’s south park lands. This morning it started pretty normally.
My sensei and I had trained for about 10 minutes before cops started rocking up, lights flashing and sirens blaring their song of warning. We both stopped and looked at what was happening.
Policemen and women leapt out of their vehicles, and they started running around the parklands. We didn’t know what to make of it. Before we had both been throwing punches at each other quite enthusiastically for our training.. so we were a little paranoid.
Suddenly one of them standing about 50 metres away from us yells out, “I found it!”. Cops converge onto the one spot, looks of revulsion on their faces.
The detectives arrive, approaching that spot tentatively. At the same time they both recoil, covering their mouths with their hands.
A dead body was found.
Naturally both my sensei and I were asked questions about whether we’d seen anyone suspicious around the place and whether we have been there for long.
Funny… they don’t suspect the two martial artists who are throwing punches at each other…
Nah, we’re not suspicious at all.
Either way, it was a little bit of excitement for a Saturday morning; training with a tonne of cops and a dead body nearby… until that yellow crime scene tape came out and we had to retreat to a “safe” distance.
Ah Adelaide: Murder Capital of the World.
posted by Andy at 5:51 PM
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What a horrible experience! Glad they didn’t suspect you. You don’t need that stuff in your life!
10:14 PM
Ya i was wonderin the same thing, y didn't suspect u, do u look harmless?....lookin harmless is a bigger dampner than being asked for questionin
5:28 AM
whoa. how did the person die? sounds like you go there often; were you a little creeped out?
7:11 PM
It was just an odd experience, CB. I mean, we were going to train a further deeper into the park, which would've meant we might've stumbled over the body... but we stopped just short of the area.
Ken: to look harmless is actually beneficial. People don't perceive you as a threat... it gives you a kind of upper hand.
Cadiz: All that was said on the news was "no suspicious circumstances". We go there every saturday morning. I get private lessons. It was a little creepy, but sensei was curious, and kept looking over there to see if he could view anything. Sick prick.
7:40 PM
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