An argument over a parking space in Australia turned violent
when a female motorist allegedly slapped a man in the face then stabbed him in
the leg with a pair of scissors, police say.
The 21-year-old has been charged with predatory driving and
assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the confrontation in Lakemba,
south-west Sydney ,
on Sunday afternoon.
Inspector Ben Hooper, the duty officer at the Campsie local
area command, said the woman and a 26-year-old man had argued over who had the
right to a parking space on Haldon
Street in Lakemba just before 2.30pm.
A short time later the man was driving south along Croydon Street ,
which runs parallel to Haldon
Street , when his car was allegedly bumped from
behind by a white Honda Civic.
The man told police that the vehicle belonged to the same
woman with whom he had argued a short time earlier.
The man said he followed the Civic to take down its
registration number, but witnesses told police the Civic turned around and
blocked his car, and the woman got out of her vehicle.
Police allege the woman slapped the man through the open
window of his car before assaulting him with a pair of scissors.
"She allegedly punched him a couple of times while
holding a pair scissors, which caused some superficial cuts," Inspector
Hooper said.
Paramedics treated the man at the scene, but he was not
taken to hospital.
Inspector Hooper said tempers had flared earlier over who
should have got a public car space along the street. It was not clear who
eventually took the spot.
"Situations such as parking spaces should not be causes
for violence at all. We just need to be patient with each other on the roads
and show some courtesy," he said.
A short time after the stabbing, police went to a house in Kennedy Street in
Lakemba and arrested a 21-year-old woman.
She was charged and granted conditional bail to appear in Burwood Local Court
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