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Speaker 1: A real change of pace because last week an emergency

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Speaker 1: Ambulance said the man had come off his bike while

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Speaker 1: traveling at sixty k's an hour in Herbert last Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Now he was thrown up to ten meters in the

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Speaker 1: to help them get to the rider. Now, I'm pleased

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Speaker 1: to say, like this is a really interesting story and

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Speaker 1: the more I hear about it, the more interesting it gets.

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Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio right now, well, I've

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Speaker 1: got Bow and his mum, Bridy. Good morning to you both.

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Speaker 2: Good morning morning.

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Speaker 1: It is lovely to have you both in the studio. Now,

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Speaker 1: brid understand it. You're actually working in the call center. Yes,

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Speaker 3: You took the call. What happened?

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Speaker 2: So I didn't take the call. The call takers took

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Speaker 2: the call. But my job is Territory deployment manager, So

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Speaker 2: I work in conjunction with the police, et cetera for

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Speaker 2: something like this, obviously to launch the emergency response. So

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Speaker 2: we knew from the injuries, et cetera that it would

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Speaker 2: likely be a job for care Flight to access him.

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Speaker 2: So my colleague Chris is in the background arranging that

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Speaker 1: And at that point you realized it's actually in a

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was right at our back fence. So our

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Speaker 2: property backs onto Coolpinia Station area. And when I had

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Speaker 1: And so what went through your mind at that point,

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Speaker 1: is there some way that my family can help?

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Speaker 2: Well, I knew that police weren't going to get in

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Speaker 2: at that point because it had been raining for numerous days.

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Speaker 2: I knew our property was very swampy and boggy at

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Speaker 3: In comes to the rescue.

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Speaker 1: Bo, how did he get involved in this rescue?

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Speaker 3: Writing?

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Speaker 2: Well, coincidentally, whilst I'm brainstorming with the police talking about

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Speaker 2: my phone has rung and it's bow So he has rung,

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Speaker 2: complaining that he had discovered that his sister had had

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Speaker 2: got him any And I said, hang on a minute, mate,

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Speaker 2: shelve that I've got something more important that I need

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Speaker 3: Have I got a job for you?

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Speaker 1: And so what so Bo, you rang, Mum, you're complaining

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Speaker 4: Well, she was. She said, like, stop complaining about macis.

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Speaker 3: I've got something else for you.

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Speaker 4: She told me about the theme yep, told me about

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Speaker 4: the incident and the crash, and then she said, get

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Speaker 4: And it was a bit of a drive to get

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Speaker 2: Got three quad bikes lined up. There were three police officers,

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Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty legendary stuff, mate. What were you thinking

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Speaker 4: I was thinking in me like it was.

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Speaker 1: Did you think it was gonna be quite a serious

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Speaker 4: Yes? I did. Yeah, I thought if if I don't

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Speaker 4: couldn't we couldn't get to the quad bikes exactly where

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Speaker 1: That like, And so then you got them there, you

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I yeah, was pretty like was it scary sort of stuff?

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Speaker 3: How are you feeling?

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Speaker 4: It was scary. It was very like it was very

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Speaker 4: crop country as well. Yeah, it was right next to

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Speaker 2: The police gave him jobs to do whilst he was there, so.

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Speaker 4: What so, what jobs did you have to do? I

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Speaker 4: did a couple of them, I did. I did a

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Speaker 4: couple jobs. One of them was stand crock watch.

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Speaker 2: Ye.

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Speaker 4: They ended up putting him on the stretcher, wrong things,

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Speaker 4: so they had to lift them up. I had to

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And he was also tasked with talking to the rider

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Speaker 2: whilst they were waiting for CareFlight. So I was always

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Speaker 2: got a good story and he was the man for

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Speaker 1: Mate.

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Speaker 3: Did you what yarn did you spin him? What did

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Speaker 4: I was asking him about his bike because I'm really

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Speaker 4: into dirt bikes as well. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Did he have a good dirt bike? Yes, he did,

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Speaker 3: Was it pretty banged up?

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Speaker 4: No, Actually we ended up taking it, ended up getting

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Speaker 4: it back to our place that night because it would

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Speaker 3: It actually ran yeah right, small water than Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mate.

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Speaker 1: You have either of you spoken to this some to

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Speaker 2: No, he's been in hospital. Yes, sent messages on Facebook

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Speaker 2: and my husband's been liaising with him about getting the

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh, by mate, what a legend there you are. Now

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Speaker 1: tell me did you get makets after all of that?

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Speaker 3: Did your mum sort you out?

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Speaker 4: No? But I did get macags from my stitches.

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Speaker 3: Oh so that's right. Then you hurt yourself? When did

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Speaker 4: That was? That was Saturday night at a birthday?

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Speaker 2: Oh, the corrugated iron garden edging. You've got bad things?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, got the better of you. It wasn't voted by

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Speaker 3: or wasn't called bike inflicted.

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Speaker 1: No, so tell me bo, I mean, you know, after

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Speaker 1: what's happened, after the way that you help the police,

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Speaker 1: after you know, seeing or hearing your mum in action,

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Speaker 1: What do you think you might want to be a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely an option that I can do. I

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Speaker 4: would like to do that. It would definitely be good.

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Speaker 4: There's lots of opportunity. It's no, it's a very good opportunity. Yep.

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Speaker 3: I would like to do that very much.

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Speaker 2: He's decided that he needs a job where action is involved,

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Speaker 4: There's different I had. Originally I had a plan for

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Speaker 4: my jobs and then this happened. It would be good.

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Speaker 4: I would love to do that, Yes, I would.

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Speaker 2: I think it was an unofficial green your child to

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Speaker 2: work day for me. Now he knows what.

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Speaker 3: I had plenty of those at the station.

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Speaker 1: So I'm feeling you, and you're never quite sure how

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Speaker 1: they're going to act in those situations, are you. You

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Speaker 1: must be really proud of him that I was able

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Speaker 2: I think he was once the initial freak out when

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Speaker 2: he didn't really understand what I was asking of him.

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Speaker 2: Once he got over that, yeah, yeah, straight into action.

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Speaker 2: And I think because that area was so difficult, even

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Speaker 2: getting out of there from the police was very difficult.

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Speaker 2: So Bo had to put the quads into four will

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Speaker 2: to put the winch on and winch one out and

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Speaker 2: so just his mechanical knowledge with the motorbikes as well

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Speaker 2: really helped too.

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Speaker 1: What an action man, Yeah, that is so good. You're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you need some kind of award. If I if

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Speaker 3: I still awarded.

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Speaker 1: Territorian of the week, you would be my Territorian of

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Speaker 1: honorary Territorian of the week. You should be so proud

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Speaker 1: of yourself and you know what you did and thinking

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Speaker 3: Good on your mate.

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Speaker 2: I think his sister's feeling a little bit left out,

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Speaker 2: so she made sure the police had towels to towel

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Speaker 3: Is she younger or older?

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Speaker 2: She's eight?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that is still very help.

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Speaker 2: Very much feels missed out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, now to all your friends at school, know what

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Speaker 3: you did.

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Speaker 4: Yes, they did. When I first came back after that,

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Speaker 4: none of them believe me of anything.

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Speaker 3: No, I bet they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They will now that you've done a heap of media,

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Speaker 1: they'll all know you'll be able to send them the interview.

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Speaker 3: Mate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much both of you for joining us

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Speaker 3: Bridy and Bow.

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Speaker 1: Thank you bo our little territory and of the work.

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Speaker 1: Good on you mate, Thank you everybody You're welcome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much,