QF43: The Solar Panel Thief

Oh man, if you haven't heard this story - you're in for a treat!! (And it's super short and sweet!)

My kids (Jordan and Tiana) joined me in the Podvan about a year ago - and I'm still laughing about this story...

Remember, if you'd like to hear the whole episode it came from, just search for Episode 42 of The Podvan Podcast! 

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Episode Transcript

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What was the thing that you started to tell me last night
and I went, wait, save it for the podcast?
The return of the solar panel bandit.
Oh. This is great.
Does T know about this? No.
No. Oh.
Does she know about Part 1 'cause I heard Part 1 of the?
Story explain both parts and yeah.
Yeah. Oh, this is great.
Alright. So a few years ago, 2-3 years

(00:25):
ago, it was a while ago, but we still remember it because it's
quite you don't forget this sortof.
Thing, yeah, it's it mildly rings a bell in my room, but it
was really you and mum that had this.
Moment. Yeah, we were in the car, Yeah,
we were getting Zamperos. We're going through the drive
through and we were waiting. We were just sitting in the car
waiting and we were watching a guy on a bike try and steal a
solar panel. I remember.

(00:49):
Solar panel guy. Right.
So he did. It wasn't like he was taking it
off the ground. He already had it.
He had it and he was on his bikeand he was struggling to ride
off with it on a bicycle on the on the footpath, a bicycle with
a giant solar panel. Yeah, he was trying to pedal
away with it. And then the cops came and he
shoved it in a Bush and we're watching as he's talking to the

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cops and just going it's in the Bush, it's in the Bush.
And then he gets back on the bike and they they so the.
Cops left, Yeah. The cops left, Yeah.
He goes back to the Bush, he gets out of the Bush, he gets
back on his bike, he starts pedalling and the cops came
round the block and just pulled over again as he's cycling off
with the solar pedal. Can you?

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Imagine a widget sitting in the car dying.
It was so you could just watch it all happen in.
Whatever the cops driving off sothey've said to him, oh you
don't OK, because we've got reports of someone riding along
with solar panel and you've got a bike and then go no, no, not
me. And they're like OK cool, no
worries mate. They jump in the car and go,
let's go around the block and. He.

(01:57):
Come round, they would have beenlaughing.
They would have been laughing coming up as he's wrong.
Now here's the crazy thing that I went I don't know anything
from this point because Jay started talking about it and I
said hold it for the podcast. There's a Part 2.
There's a Part 2 did he break out of?
Prison. Did he steal?
A solar panel from the jail. Cell, he got out.

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Peddling off? Yeah.
To victory? No.
So the other morning Mum called me.
She just left for work, I think it was.
And I was still in bed. It wasn't working.
Yep. Uni student.
Student, I get it. I'm on break and she just called
me and she goes, he's back. And I was like, what?
It's like the solar panel guy. And it took me a second.

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I was going what? I'm still in bed and I think
he's the solar panel guy. And she goes the solar panel
bandit. And I was like, no, he's
striking again. And she's like, he's not
stealing. You know, he might not be
stealing. It might have just been
something on the side of the road.
Oh God. He's.
Not riding. Along with something again, he
is. Same guy on his bike, same guy

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and he's got a Venetian blind sticking out either side.
Not going forward. You've killed him.

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He's just trying to make. It he's.
Collecting parts of the house. Dean, what I'm featuring, as you
said, it's like, it's like when Harley Douglas gets a sticker
and she tries to go through the doggy door.
Exactly like that and mum's crying on the other side of the

(03:48):
phone saying he keeps going. Empires.
Poles. And things.
Picture it ohh. Far out.
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