Apparently the gun was empty that’s why he didn’t shoot him, the man is a hero and has been visited in hospital by the PM and others. They’ve raised over $2m in 12 hours on a go fund me page (if anyone’s interested in kicking in) hopefully he’ll get much more.
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I don’t think he will have medical expenses under the Australian health system. Anyway, as we say, bloody legend, and I expect he will just be back selling fruit and vegetables when things settle down - he seems to be the humble type.
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Think he’s rightfully getting VIP treatment in hospital and I’m pretty sure they’ll be no invoice on release.
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Uncle Bruss, can I borrow your car for the weekend?
For a favourite nephew, of course. 
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From the footage I saw in Britain I was unaware he had been injured - was he injured in his tussle with the gunman?
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Shot after the tussle.
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There was another couple that confronted one of the terrorists before the attack started and they were both killed. Dead heroes sadly.
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Reported here.
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There is luck and there is……
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Interesting:
I was on the A14 a fortnight ago.
Gantry display lit up and showed 60 mph. Knew there was a speed camera ahead as Airplay announced it.
Slowed to under 60mph and lowered cruise control speed (which being adaptive it rarely reaches due to vehicles ahead).
60mph remained on the gantry as I passed under it in the middle lane having overtaken a vehicle doing <70mph a little while before the gantry sign lit up.
Passing the camera I noticed several flashes in the rear view mirror. Looked down - I was doing 58 mph. Then noticed the car in the left hand lane I didn’t want to cut up by pulling in undertaking me - navy Audi. Assumed it was the Audi but in all honesty he undertook me quite slowly and doubt he was doing much more than 60 mph anyway if that.
Can’t quite fathom if they’ve fixed the issue yet or not but I’ve always wondered how they handle variable speed signs changing as you pass beneath because you won’t be aware it’s suddenly changed - seems a pretty flawed system that ideally should indicate to an approaching driver that the speed will soon change not just suddenly do it as you pass beneath. 10 seconds seems far too short a grace period if that’s accurate depending on camera distance from the gantry.
Does the Highway Code specify such limits/grace periods currently?
I have experienced this too. I understand that there is delay [1] before the camera activates [2] just after the speed limit changes on the gantry.
[1] I don’t know what the delay time is but it should be a reasonable period to allow traffic speeds to adjust safely.
[2] the camera will flash but inside the delay time will not trigger a ticket.
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The issue seems to relate to a software glitch which didn’t apply the delay appropriately meaning thousands of motorists were fined incorrectly.
Really seems to be a rather vague rule around these variable speed limit installations.
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Certainly not in respect of time delay between variable speed limit changing and the speed cameras, as that is precisely what has caused this issue, with the fines being cancelled. And I am pretty sure that there is there’s nothing anywhere in law that gives any grace beyond that, any grace given being purely down to whoever decides whether or not to start action based on the speed cameras evidence. (That is if it is not yet fully automated.) people doing that of course would have guidelines With speeding, it certainly used to be the case that the police allowed 10% over before prosecuting, and the theory of that was to allow for variability of accuracy of vehicle speedos, but it is discretionary, and was purely a matter of guidance given to officers I believe. And one criticism of speed cameras when they first came in was that they would take humanity out of it – of course they could very easily be programmed to allow whatever percentage tolerance the enforcers decide.
I had heard of the 10% when I first started driving, but it was confirmed to me once by a police officer: the one and only time I’ve ever been stopped for speeding (and no never any speed cameras): I had been doing very considerably higher than the speed limit but in my maximum observation made that always came in if I drove to make maximum progress. I spotted the lights of a car maybe a mile behind but starting to catch up, and had slowed down to barely over the 10% when thee ed police car caught up and signalled me to stop. He was clearly well aware that I had been going a lot faster when he said we normally give people 10%, so we’re just asking you to take it easy and slow down a bit. Then he said something that almost certainly explained why he took no further action – he said by the way I just thought you’d like to know yours is by far the best driving we’ve seen all day!
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Wiegman rules.
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In amongst all the rather depressing news articles, this was a heart warming story to read…
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Think different James. By far the most things go well. The vast majority of people on this planet live in peace and more and more people have access to clean water, medical care et cetera. It would not have been possible without the industrial revolution which once started in your country.
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Indeed, there are good things going on and good people too. Lots to be positive about in 2026. I was just touched by the kindness of these people and thought the article was worth a link.
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This morning the FTSE 100 goes through 10,000 for the first time ever.
This is in lime with the tick up in other indices around the world. I guess Santa was just late for his rally this season…
And, fwiw…
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