A community sleuth contacted Oddie about the bikes, which have police exhibit stickers on the seats and the remnants of fingerprint dust.
While investigating, the sleuth spotted a police officer on the beat and asked the obvious question: what the heck is going on?
The answer was that the bikes had been released from custody and the rightful owners hadn’t got around to cleaning them or removing the stickers.
Hardy souls
Spare a thought for the candidates and volunteers manning pre-poll voting.
Rules are rules and the door into the inner sanctum of a polling place is where the politicking stops, meaning Thursday was spent out in the rain.
Oddie admires their commitment to the cause.
Campaigning from afar
United Australia Party leader Craig Kelly was on the campaign trail in Shepparton on Thursday, fighting the good fight for others while his own political career goes down the gurgler.
The Member for Hughes, who won for the Libs back in 2019 with a margin of nine per cent before becoming disillusioned and splitting, is polling just five per cent this time.
Odd that a leader, even a minor party one, won’t actually be in the next parliament.
Perhaps a parachute into the Senate is possible.
Caring community
GV Cares, the community-led relief effort that formed in response to the big lockdown in September 2021 when 20,000 residents were stuck in isolation for 14 days, has been nominated for a Greater Shepparton City Council Volunteer Recognition Award.
To misquote a phrase from the movie Jaws, ‘You’re gunna need a bigger stage’.
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