More than half of Australia’s population is in lockdown and the borders are being slammed shut due to the alarming outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19, yet there are still some Aussies who think it is just a lark.
A 39-year-old Brisbane man (yes, 39) was in quarantine on the fourth-storey of a hotel in Perth, Western Australia. On Tuesday morning, he escaped by typing tied bed sheets together and clambered down to the street as though he was breaking out of Alcatraz.
He wandered the streets for six hours before being caught by West Australian Police and arrested for breaching a public health order.
He had been refused entry to WA on Monday afternoon under COVID-19 restrictions and told to leave the state within 48 hours. He had arrived without a G2G pass – an interstate passport system used in WA and Tasmania – and failed to meet the exemption criteria for entering.
The reason for his desperate escape? He did not want to go back to Queensland!
Some people just don’t get it.
