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A utility vehicle was stolen from a worksite in Yeronga, prompting its owners to take matters into their own hands by attempting to locate it themselves.
After a determined search lasting three hours, they finally spotted the suspected thief driving the vehicle on a street in Rochedale South around 9:30 p.m.
Surveillance footage captures the dramatic scene as the owners rammed their own ute before aggressively striking it with baseball bats in an effort to reclaim their property from the thief.
“That’s my car! He stole our car!” one of the men shouted, as he furiously attacked the vehicle’s doors, mirrors, and windows.
The intense confrontation lasted roughly three minutes. During this time, the thief managed to escape but not without causing additional damage by reversing through the front fence of Danielle and Craig Mason’s residence.
“A number of hours earlier, my son could have been reversed over playing in the front yard,” Chris said.
“What’s the world come to?”
The driver still hasn’t been found despite a large police search, but the Mason family are more upset with the vigilantes than the thief himself.
“I was mostly angry about the vigilantes’ chase, because I think that that’s what created heaps more chaos and violence and damage than the guy stealing the car,” Danielle said.
“Which is obviously wrong, but I just don’t think we should take it into our own hands. Just leave it to the police.”
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