The youngest was making the most delicious grilled chicken with chimichurri and pearl cous cous salad yesterday afternoon when a helicopter started circling overhead.
The youngest also baked banana bread and made dried mango in the food dehydrator. I am loving this personal chef thing.
But I digress …
The helicopter kept circling, low and loud, so the youngest paused her cooking to go out on the balcony and investigate.
She reported it was a police helicopter and she wondering how on earth it was fighting crime from the sky. I suggested it might be monitoring a car chase, then thought nothing more of it.
After dinner the youngest sent me a link to a news story about a manhunt that was underway after a man was shot in Kirribilli.
Two men were reportedly seen running from the scene, while an abandoned car was found alight in Neutral Bay.
Well, that explains the low-flying chopper.
According to ABC News, a man with “high-level connections to international organised crime groups” was shot.
The Daily Mail, naturally, had a far more salacious version of events.
The headline: “Kirribilli shooting: Person is shot in brazen ‘gangland hit’ just streets away from the Prime Minister’s official residence – as major manhunt is launched for two suspected gunmen”
The intro: “A major manhunt is underway after a ‘bikie figure’ was shot in Sydney‘s Kirribilli, just streets away from the Prime Minister’s official residence.
“A man in his 30s was shot at five times just after 4pm on Wednesday on Upper Pitt St, Kirribilli which is just 600 metres from the Anthony Albanese‘s official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House.
“Senior police sources told the Daily Telegraph the victim was a significant player in the bikie world.”
Later reports pegged him as a former high-ranking Bandidos member who had just been released from jail.
He only suffered minor gunshot wounds to his ankle, so his assailants really screwed that hit up and must be feeling pretty nervous right now.
Blimey! Here I was thinking Kirribilli was the quiet suburb where retirees downsized to apartments so they could sip coffees by the harbour and see plays at the Ensemble Theatre.
But no, it’s a hotbed of organized crime.
The ladies of Mozzzzman will be in such a tizz about living so unexpectedly close to the mean streets.
I wonder what surprises today will bring?
Song of the day: Coolio “Gangsta’s paradise”
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