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29th Oct 2022

Terrifying moment grinning ‘carjacker’ with machete bangs on car window and demands to be let in

Steve Hopkins

Because of traffic the motorist has no where to go

Horrifying footage has emerged showing a man armed with a machete tapping on a car window and demanding to be let in during an attempted carjacking.

The terrified motorist was sitting in traffic in Queensland, Australia, when a man carrying the weapon approaches his car and tries to open the front passenger door.

@brisbaneincidentalerts A man has besn filmed trying to carjack people by scaring them with a machete in Deception Bay this week! Video: Rachel Massey. #b#brisbaneq#queenslanda#australiai#incident ♬ original sound – Brisbane Incident Alerts

Passenger Ash Massacre filmed the encounter in Deception Bay, a coastal suburb in the Moreton Bay Region, on Monday, The Sun reported.

After trying the front door, the armed man tries the rear passenger side door and taps on the window to be let in while waving the machete about.

The car jacker grins at the person filming him throughout the ordeal.

When he can’t get into the car the man walks off down the road with the weapon still in his hand.

Ash said they were unable to drive off as they were surrounded by other vehicles.

In Another video she described the incident as “absolutely terrifying”.

“I didn’t know what to do. I was stuck in shock.

“We had stopped at the lights and basically I could see some dude walking through it and I was like ‘What’s he doing?’

“And my husband‘s like, ‘Oh, he’s walking around with a machete’ and he was, like, swinging it around.

“So I started recording because I thought it’s weird and my sisters would never believe that.”

Police arrested a 21-year-old man at the scene and he has since been charged with threatening violence, unlawful entry of motor vehicles and obstructing police.

The man is due to appear in court in December.

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