NSW Parliment House in Lock Down

[freddie*rooster]

There's a bloke in a white car negotiator's are trying to talk to, it's all unfolding on the ABC.

[**meep**]

seems to be over now....they have the guy in custody.

[freddie*rooster]

Yes, the riot squad rushed the car with tear gas, smashed the back window drug him out and arrested him. He appeared to have a container of fuel in the car. Prior to that he was handing the negotiator pages of writing.

[**meep**]

he was threatening self harm from what i can gather....

[freddie*rooster]

I worked not far from there many years ago.

I liked the riot squad cuffs, they were like cable ties

[cherry*135]

It is understood the driver told police he had a bomb in the car.

smh

May be true or not, even so, can't take the risk that he was lying.

[**meep**]

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

I worked not far from there many years ago.

I liked the riot squad cuffs, they were like cable ties

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Same here.  Used to have lunch across the road.

[**meep** · Accepted solution]

its been live on Sky News.  The reports are, the man is known to Police and his demand was to see the Premier.

[freddie*rooster]

Yes, he appears to be a Woolongong man and a regular at Parliment.

[cherry*135]

A man who forced the lockdown of NSW Parliament House in a suspected bomb threat had been on a hunger strike outside the building last year over a $200 fine he received 15 years ago.

Abdula Ganiji told the Illawarra Mercury in December 2012 he was refusing to eat or return home to his Cringila family until Premier Barry O'Farrell launched an investigation into his dispute with his former employer, Wollongong Radio Cabs.

........."When that man attempted to light a cigarette lighter, wind the windows of the car up with what we believe to be a container of flammable liquid, those officers put their lives on the line this afternoon and they resolved the situation in a peaceful manner.

"That is to be commended."

SMH