Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: So what amazing story yesterday this time yesterday morning at
Speaker 2: the Barton Milk Bar in Hawthorne, Michael Voss and James Laski,
Speaker 2: who are about to speak to the cafe owner, chased
Speaker 2: two offenders after a car flipped over on the street.
Speaker 2: It looks like it's been dropped by crane. This car,
Speaker 2: it's on its side. Chase the two offenders, Michael vossit
Speaker 2: com coach and James the cafe, both chumping over bins
Speaker 2: on roots such dusky hudg den downa back anyway to
Speaker 2: an outside laundry with a clothes line. This is like
Speaker 2: every eighties movie. The first defender climbed over the fence,
Speaker 2: but Voss dragged the second one back down and held him.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is incredible. When Voss finally returned to the Barton
Speaker 2: Milkbar to reorder, I love this. They're probably called I've
Speaker 2: been chasing down pups. Reorder, reorder two large lates, one
Speaker 2: sugar each. He sculls one, then SIPs on the second.
Speaker 2: Most morning there sound Walsh and four other Carton players,
Speaker 2: all eating breast breakfast, unaware what it just happens. It's incredible.
Speaker 2: He's an instant hero. Now to the change room. I
Speaker 2: wonder if it boosts morele ahead of the finals games.
Speaker 2: Who know, if they win is because of voss Man.
Speaker 2: Let's go now to James Laski suddenly the only and
Speaker 2: most famous cafe in Melbourne. Good morning James, Good morning God.
Speaker 1: It's an absolutely crazy story, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what take us to it?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: So what time yesterday morning did it all happen? What
Speaker 2: did you first see James?
Speaker 1: It was just a little bit later than this yesterday morning,
Speaker 1: just before school drop off, which is the scary part
Speaker 1: because it's a really busy corner on the opposite corner
Speaker 1: to the cafe with everyone, you know, all the parents
Speaker 1: getting their kids to school. And so just before nine
Speaker 1: o'clock that's when BOSSI had ordered his coffee. I was
Speaker 1: just had to make them. And then yeah, next minute,
Speaker 1: this car flies through the roundabout and and lands on
Speaker 1: its side on the footpath. So do you see it
Speaker 1: or do you hear it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was a big noise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was. I was. I should have been
Speaker 1: maybe making busses coffee, but I was. I was daydreaming
Speaker 1: and looking up the street and I see the I
Speaker 1: see the vehicle take the intersection and land on its side.
Speaker 1: And the initial thought was, hey, you know this is
Speaker 1: this is bad. Someone's in there and maybe someone's injured
Speaker 1: or maybe the car has hit someone, and so we
Speaker 1: need to get get out there as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: And then yet probably four or five of us walked like,
Speaker 1: you know, straight over to the car. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, because the car is still on so
Speaker 1: it was quite noisy, and we were trying to assess
Speaker 1: the situation. And then all of a sudden the door opens,
Speaker 1: you know, what is out of the roof of the car.
Speaker 1: And two it was just amazing scenes like two kids
Speaker 1: jump out and Voss's boss's filming, and then they just
Speaker 1: start running, and then Boss starts running, and then I
Speaker 1: start running.
Speaker 2: So you and you're running together. Is obviously because he's
Speaker 2: still in Great Shab ahead of you. What's the sort situation.
Speaker 1: He's ahead of see, he's he's still got it, bossy.
Speaker 2: Bar owner, Michael, you haven't paid for your copies yet?
Speaker 1: Exactly, mate, he was. He's very quick. I had actually
Speaker 1: I just had my breakfast, so I was a bit pluggage,
Speaker 1: but and then it's you know, we probably were probably
Speaker 1: running for one hundred meters and then it started to
Speaker 1: get a little bit sketchy when they were running down
Speaker 1: behind the apartment block and we had to jump over
Speaker 1: a few fences and like you know, a bin storage area.
Speaker 1: And then Vossy had the guy. One of the guys
Speaker 1: was trying to climb the fence and he just you know,
Speaker 1: he gave him a bear hug. And if if foss
Speaker 1: he's giving me a bear hug, it's all over.
Speaker 2: I got this incredible scenes.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was yeah.
Speaker 2: And so way and then did you call the police?
Speaker 2: Or how long was the wait before sort of backup?
Speaker 2: How for you both?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I called the police straight away. We had
Speaker 1: we had both of their phones. I called the police
Speaker 1: and the police were in. We're there on the scene
Speaker 1: within maybe five minutes.
Speaker 2: And five minutes is a long time. There must have
Speaker 2: been a lot of adrenaline and has VOSSI he still
Speaker 2: got this this dude in a bear hug.
Speaker 1: He still had the guy in kind of you know,
Speaker 1: he was just holding him.
Speaker 2: Is he talking to him? Is there any small talk?
Speaker 2: Or yeah, he asked you if he's a blues.
Speaker 1: Fan or nah. There was surprisingly not much small talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah in that moment, is there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was thinking, you know, I could start talking
Speaker 1: about the there or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's on
Speaker 1: for the rest of the day. No, No, Look, I
Speaker 1: the phone because we had bother their phones, and then
Speaker 1: one of the phones rang and it was the second offender,
Speaker 1: because he was saying did you get away?
Speaker 2: He's a real master kriminal, isn't he. Many movies don't break.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I answered the answered the call and he
Speaker 1: was saying, did you get away? Whatever? And I said, look, mate,
Speaker 1: we've got your mate. Come back to the car like
Speaker 1: it's all over. And then he hung up. So so yeah,
Speaker 1: he's I think he's hopefully they catch him and.
Speaker 2: So tell me this then, James. So the police turn
Speaker 2: up and then obviously the later part this because obviously
Speaker 2: a lot of people listen to this right now, it's
Speaker 2: incredibly it's a very noble thing he birth did, but
Speaker 2: it's also can be a very interesting At least we
Speaker 2: find out that actually one of them. One thing, the
Speaker 2: guy that that Vossi had actually had had a weapon
Speaker 2: on him as well. So did you know that at
Speaker 2: the time. Could you could you see that? Or did
Speaker 2: the police search the guy when they turned up?
Speaker 1: You know what, like, never once did I think about
Speaker 1: the kid having a weapon. And it wasn't until the
Speaker 1: police put him in handcuffs and then they asked him
Speaker 1: do you have a weapon, and he said, yeah, I do,
Speaker 1: It's in my back pocket. And then they pulled out
Speaker 1: this giant sort of kitchen knife, serrated thing, and Voss
Speaker 1: and I just looked at each other and you know, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't We just looked at each other.
Speaker 1: I think we've you know, we're really lucky to come
Speaker 1: out of that unscathed. And you know, I think we've
Speaker 1: avoided a tragedy in the car flipping, and then also
Speaker 1: a tragedy with I not be able to use the knife.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, it was the heart was racing.
Speaker 2: Bet for both of you, actually, but you kept thinking
Speaker 2: about throughout the day. Actually, he must have got a
Speaker 2: crazy day afterwards, the sort of replaying it James.
Speaker 1: Crazy day, crazy day. But I was We're just so
Speaker 1: happy that that no one was injured or killed, and
Speaker 1: it could have been, you know, we could have been
Speaker 1: on the news this morning for for something a lot worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'm glad. Everyone's okay. Everyone, Now tell me
Speaker 2: this this one last question I've got for you is
Speaker 2: the two coffees? Is that when it is regular order,
Speaker 2: he has two coffees vossy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's unbelievable. He's just an absolute weapon.
Speaker 1: He he actually had he had five of these large
Speaker 1: coffees the other day, not for himself, for himself, and
Speaker 1: no one is going.
Speaker 2: To be able to chase after. He could have caught
Speaker 2: you Bold could.
Speaker 1: Have a little bit. He's an absolute weapon. He's a weapon.
Speaker 1: But he know his normal order is too large. Last
Speaker 1: is one sugar and h and it just crushes them.
Speaker 2: You need to have some sort of you need to
Speaker 2: cash on this. I'm guessing you've got a few more
Speaker 2: extra customers, I hope. But go into the Barton Milt
Speaker 2: Bar on thirty nine Barton Street today in Hawthorne. You
Speaker 2: need to have a Fosse special. You know, listen, you
Speaker 2: know you're viral right now, my friend, so cash get
Speaker 2: your SPI.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, James, I'm glad. Everyone's okay, and thank you
Speaker 2: for fraying up a bit of time and good on you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for chatting to us.
Speaker 2: I hope you're okay.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, yeah, appreciate it. Thanks for having me on.
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