Canberra: Hunt launched for driver wearing a banana costume and a balaclava who allegedly injured a man while doing burnouts
ACT police are looking for a driver wearing a banana suit and balaclava who allegedly injured a man during a burnout on Friday evening.
Emergency services were called to Copper Crescent in Beard at around 9.10pm to reports that a man had been hit by a tire that had come loose from a car causing a burnout.
The injured 21-year-old was treated at the scene by paramedics and then taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police are looking for the alleged driver of the gold Ford Falcon sedan, which is covered in graffiti.
A statement from ACT Police said they were “also keen to speak to anyone who witnessed the incident, or who may have mobile phone footage of the incident, who has not yet spoken to police.”
ACT police are looking for a driver wearing a banana suit and balaclava who is believed to have suffered burnouts and injuries on Friday evening. The car involved is pictured
In January, a fed-up ACT officer lashed out at irresponsible drivers suffering burnouts, calling them a “subspecies of the human race”.
Thirteen cars were seized by police during the four-day Summernats Revhead festival.
“If we set up an IQ testing station at the border instead of a vehicle testing station, we would halve our problems,” Acting Inspector Mark Richardson said at the time.
“The real car enthusiasts are not the problem, it’s the idiotic tourism.”
‘They just haven’t evolved that far yet. I think they’ve really reached a plateau as a species or subspecies of the human race.”