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PRACTICE TALES<br />

By this stage the police had been called, and after a five minute delay they arrived<br />

on the scene, and proceeded to take the offender into custody. I heartily thanked the<br />

alert patient and chemist, called the RACQ (<strong>au</strong>to club) to return the wheels to their<br />

correct position, and returned to a long neglected and rather bemused patient who<br />

was patiently waiting by my desk.<br />

Later in the day the police returned to officially interview me, and to give me some<br />

marvellous news. The offender was well known to them, and had been previously<br />

charged 15 times, the most recently only two weeks earlier for receiving stolen<br />

goods. But he had turned 18 only two days earlier, could now be charged as an adult,<br />

and as the goods were valued at more than A$2000, the charge was a more serious<br />

one.<br />

The rest of the afternoon dragged, as all my patients had heard wild rumours, and<br />

everyone of them wanted to hear the real story, from the source. Somehow the drive<br />

home seemed slightly different as I felt the wheels roll smoothly under me.<br />

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