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Re: Helicopter circling Thompson Street/Belvedere Road

We got back from hols at about 1am that morning and went to bed about 2am. Only found out at lunch time Thursday from a neighbour that the police helicopter was hovering directly over our house - one of the would-be burglars was dragged out from under a car in Wotton, another was hiding in next-door-but-one's shed, and the last was cowering between a bush and our van in our driveway until the police hauled him out. So all this went on a few feet from where we slept, blissfully unaware! We must've thought we were still on the plane........ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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