The curious case of the Toorak tyre slasher
The Tales from Toorak have taken a deflating turn, with a neat and potentially sockless tyre slasher running rampant through the leafy streets of the inner east. No Toorak tractor is safe from the slasher, as one hapless victim dishes the dirt to Page 13.
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While Toorak toffs have been pumping up their tyres on boys’ trips that have gone er, viral a mystery figure might be letting the air out of some overblown egos.
A victim of the Toorak slasher rang Page 13 to ask: “Could it be a disgruntled person from your Tales of Toorak. It was almost like someone wanted payback.”
Eddy from Toorak said his tyres had been slashed.
He is “angry and frustrated on many levels” for being $3k out of pocket to get two cars towed and eight tyres replaced.
“It was a very clear slash. Nice and neat.”
The Toorak tyre slasher was only going for luxury vehicles, Eddy told us.
“All the Mercedes, Range Rovers and Porsches sitting in the street,” he pointed out. “But the Holdens and Toyotas haven’t been touched.”
Eddy said he also had a theory that Toorak tractors were being targeted.
Admittedly, Eddy has a touch of the Miss Marples or Midsomer Murders about him.
But police have confirmed about 27 tyres were slashed around Hawksburn railway station last Thursday night and investigators believe there were “a further 10 incidents” late last month.
“A witness has described an offender as Caucasian, approximately 25-years-old, 175cm tall and wearing a black North Face puffer jacket and dark coloured pants,” said Mr Plod.
But was he wearing socks?
The seriously rich and the often sockless inhabit the 3142 postcode and this could be a clue.
Super sleuth Eddy says police are door knocking the homes of the rich and almost famous in the hope of finding CCTV footage to catch the Trak tyre slasher.
It’s just so deflating!