waynepoo
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Just had a pm from Toddy, he is home and doing very well and witty as normal, all good.
Wayne.
Message of Support - and Get Well soon Buddy to Desertkiwi - Hurt on duty (1 Viewer)
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Rob
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Great news on his return home! We will continue to pray for his recovery.
Desertkiwi
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Hi Fella's,
This may sound odd, but I was not aware of this thread until yesterday afternoon(Tuesday) and I must apologise profusely for not responding to you all before now.
Firstly I'd like to thank you all very very much for your messages of support and kindness to me and my family, during what has been a traumatic time. I feel humbled and somewhat embarrassed by all the attention, but are extremely grateful to all those who have sent messages, PM'd and emailed me.
I'm doing really well and will return to work soon, on 'light duties' as they say. Either way I look at things, I'm incredibly lucky under the circumstances. I met with two of the surgeons yesterday who worked on me shortly afterwards and they made it clear 2mm either side of the blade and the offender would have hit one of two main arteries and we don't really want to think about that too much......I haven't told my wife that gem yet.
I'm usually a very private person, I don't do the social media thing apart from TF, but I feel very comfortable speaking to you guys and again I'm very thankful for your support. I know I upset the odd poor soul on here occasionally, but my message is don't take it personally, my bark is worst than my bite......most of the time anyway.^&grin
I know a few of the lads would like to know more about the incident, but because it's before the court, I'm a bit ham-strung as to what I can reveal. For the record though, the incident took place just outside a WW2 bunker (which is ironic) on the top of a cliff, over-looking our beautiful harbour in Auckland, at a place called Bastion Point. I was with two other officers who were the prime unit, a good 100plus metres from our vehicles tucked away behind native scrub.....just the four of us.
Without warning and completely without provocation, he got me good and proper less than 1.5 cm's from my right eye, through the nose, down through my sinus and beyond. He was extremely quick and fast on his feet. Although I had no idea what he'd stabbed me with and what the damage was, the volume of blood squirting everywhere told me I was in real trouble.
I can't go into much detail here, but the next few minutes left me on my own, standing a short distance away in the open reserve, with no sign of the offender or my two young colleagues. This was truly a horrible feeling, because I thought he'd got them as well and the radio was silent. The claret was really flowing now and was expecting him to charge out of the scrub and have another crack at me or carry on attacking members of the public further up the hill or down on the waterfront. This was the time a Taser or firearm would have been handy.
I managed to call for back-up and return to my vehicle where I met the lads who had somehow managed to give the idiot the slip, safe and sound, thank goodness.
Plenty of drama later, I was rushed into A&E where the staff were amazing, infact all the medical staff & my police colleagues were amazing that day and I can't thank them enough.
Head-wise I'm pretty good considering and I'm not just saying that. However I'm acutely aware this incident has had a huge impact on my friends & family, including several of my colleagues and that is very upsetting, even after three weeks.
What has helped a great deal, has been receiving lots of messages of support, cards, emails, etc many from people I have never met, which would include most of you TF boys. Again thank you all so much, your thoughts and kind words mean a lot to me and my family, especially when I've never met most of you......:salute:::salute:::salute::
Chat again soon......cheers for now....Toddy
This may sound odd, but I was not aware of this thread until yesterday afternoon(Tuesday) and I must apologise profusely for not responding to you all before now.
Firstly I'd like to thank you all very very much for your messages of support and kindness to me and my family, during what has been a traumatic time. I feel humbled and somewhat embarrassed by all the attention, but are extremely grateful to all those who have sent messages, PM'd and emailed me.
I'm doing really well and will return to work soon, on 'light duties' as they say. Either way I look at things, I'm incredibly lucky under the circumstances. I met with two of the surgeons yesterday who worked on me shortly afterwards and they made it clear 2mm either side of the blade and the offender would have hit one of two main arteries and we don't really want to think about that too much......I haven't told my wife that gem yet.
I'm usually a very private person, I don't do the social media thing apart from TF, but I feel very comfortable speaking to you guys and again I'm very thankful for your support. I know I upset the odd poor soul on here occasionally, but my message is don't take it personally, my bark is worst than my bite......most of the time anyway.^&grin
I know a few of the lads would like to know more about the incident, but because it's before the court, I'm a bit ham-strung as to what I can reveal. For the record though, the incident took place just outside a WW2 bunker (which is ironic) on the top of a cliff, over-looking our beautiful harbour in Auckland, at a place called Bastion Point. I was with two other officers who were the prime unit, a good 100plus metres from our vehicles tucked away behind native scrub.....just the four of us.
Without warning and completely without provocation, he got me good and proper less than 1.5 cm's from my right eye, through the nose, down through my sinus and beyond. He was extremely quick and fast on his feet. Although I had no idea what he'd stabbed me with and what the damage was, the volume of blood squirting everywhere told me I was in real trouble.
I can't go into much detail here, but the next few minutes left me on my own, standing a short distance away in the open reserve, with no sign of the offender or my two young colleagues. This was truly a horrible feeling, because I thought he'd got them as well and the radio was silent. The claret was really flowing now and was expecting him to charge out of the scrub and have another crack at me or carry on attacking members of the public further up the hill or down on the waterfront. This was the time a Taser or firearm would have been handy.
I managed to call for back-up and return to my vehicle where I met the lads who had somehow managed to give the idiot the slip, safe and sound, thank goodness.
Plenty of drama later, I was rushed into A&E where the staff were amazing, infact all the medical staff & my police colleagues were amazing that day and I can't thank them enough.
Head-wise I'm pretty good considering and I'm not just saying that. However I'm acutely aware this incident has had a huge impact on my friends & family, including several of my colleagues and that is very upsetting, even after three weeks.
What has helped a great deal, has been receiving lots of messages of support, cards, emails, etc many from people I have never met, which would include most of you TF boys. Again thank you all so much, your thoughts and kind words mean a lot to me and my family, especially when I've never met most of you......:salute:::salute:::salute::
Chat again soon......cheers for now....Toddy
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Gee I haven't logged in for a while and saw this. I remember reading about this awful incident in the newspaper last month but had no idea of a very loose connection. I hope recovery is going well and I and my family are greatful to police like you keeping the streets safe.
Desertkiwi
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Thanks mate your kind words are much appreciated. Yes I'm really good and everything is healing nicely and I'm back at work on full duties now.
It's taken me a while to piece together everything that happened that day, because my two colleagues and I got separated. Which in hindsight is probably what saved us from any further injuries.
It's great being back at work with all the guys and girls again, especially with the great weather we're experiencing right now.
Cheers mate, regards Toddy
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Toddy
How big is Auckland? You and Davout71 must live within a couple of streets of each other!
Jack
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Desertkiwi
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Good question mate.....the place keeps going out, instead of up.{eek3} Even on the motorway doing 100kms it would still take ya an hour or two, with a tail wind and no traffic to get from one end to the other. Mind you that is driving a Holden^&grin. Someone told me we're a bit like Sydney, but I can't comment because I've never ventured that far west:tongue:
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Desertkiwi
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Not bad Tom mate, just add a couple of dozen fences, a harbour and the odd out house and I reckon you'd be pretty close{sm4}
waynepoo
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I heard it's about as far as a Kelpie can run in five minutes, mind it would have to dodge the odd ewe or two on the way. Or put an another way... five gumboots wide!.....^&grin:wink2:
Wayne.
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Do you mean the barbed wire fences, the swamp and the bio hazard buildings mate?? {sm2}{eek3}{sm4}
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I could be mistaken, but I reckon you three (Tom, Marty, Waynepoos) could be taking the mickey;:tongue: I could be wrong, but my gut tells me when you lot get together it's like the three stooges or was that the three Amigo's??{sm4}
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......now that you mention Marty's 'disco' jacket, you three definitely remind me of some dodgy Mexicans in a cheesy Western{eek3}^&grin