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Bruce drove his clapped-out truck from Adelaide to join the protests in Canberra. He claims that he was simply lost in Canberra, and arrived at the airport with no clear idea where he was trying to go, despite quite adequate signage. He claims that he saw somebody in high-visibility clothing blocking the road, and immediately his "trauma" experience kicked in, and rather than follow the instructions of the traffic controller, assumed that they were asking him to assist in an accident. He was unaware that this person was a traffic controller, since "we don't have those in South Australia", and continued to drive slowly towards the traffic controller as they moved to block him from proceeding any further. He then struck the traffic controller with his car, and was arrested on site for dangerous driving, a claim he weakly denies. | Bruce drove his clapped-out truck from Adelaide to join the protests in Canberra. He claims that he was simply lost in Canberra, and arrived at the airport with no clear idea where he was trying to go, despite quite adequate signage. He claims that he saw somebody in high-visibility clothing blocking the road, and immediately his "trauma" experience kicked in, and rather than follow the instructions of the traffic controller, assumed that they were asking him to assist in an accident. He was unaware that this person was a traffic controller, since "we don't have those in South Australia", and continued to drive slowly towards the traffic controller as they moved to block him from proceeding any further. He then struck the traffic controller with his car, and was arrested on site for dangerous driving, a claim he weakly denies. | ||
Bruce was offered police bail within hours of being arrested but refused the condition that he not return to the EPIC showground or the Parliamentary Triangle so he was remanded in custody and transferred to the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC, though incorrectly reported by his daughter [Heather_Paix|Heather] during a livestream with one of the gronks as the "ACM"), where he was placed into a mandatory 7 day quarantine due to his likelihood of having contracted COVID from his exposure in camp. He appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court the next day, pleaded not guilty to the charges, but refused the bail conditions which required him to leave the ACT and not participate in the gronkfest. He felt this condition was too draconian, and decided to return to AMC until his next hearing on 11 February 2022. He went on a personal hunger strike whilst in prison, though the mainstream media did not even mention his name during this time, making his martyrdom somewhat irrelevant. | |||
He appeared by video link to a second hearing on 11 February 2022. At that time, the bail conditions were reduced to him not being able to drive within the ACT unless it is to the court house, a condition which he accepted. | He appeared by video link to a second hearing on 11 February 2022, where the sound of his rumbling stomach threatened to derail proceedings. At that time, the bail conditions were reduced to him not being able to drive within the ACT unless it is to the court house, a condition which he accepted. | ||
He returned to [Kamp Krusty|Camp_EPIC] standing unrestrained on the back of the truck used by [Tami_Jane|Tami] during her recent tour of the Mainstream Media centres of the ACT, and received a hero's welcome. Several live-streaming gronks then interviewed him, where he recited the usual Cooker mantra regarding vaccines, ivermectin and other similar nonsense. | He returned to [Kamp Krusty|Camp_EPIC] standing unrestrained on the back of the truck used by [Tami_Jane|Tami] during her recent tour of the Mainstream Media centres of the ACT, and received a hero's welcome. Several live-streaming gronks then interviewed him, where he recited the usual Cooker mantra regarding vaccines, ivermectin and other similar nonsense. | ||