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Jack Karlson, who passed away this week at the age of 82, was an Australian small-time crook, prison escapee, and colorful character who had a tough and difficult life.
However, he also became an unlikely star of a 1991 TV news report that later became an internet sensation.
Back then, Karlson was having a meal at a local Chinese café in suburban Brisbane when, like Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition, a group of Queensland police suddenly and unexpectedly swooped in to arrest him.
Thanks to a tip-off to a journalist, the entire event was captured on camera.
Imagine a stubbled Brian Blessed in a half-buttoned polyester shirt, caught in the middle of a police scrum.
According to the news report, Karlson was being followed by an American Express investigator who had identified him as a suspected credit card fraudster.
The investigator called in the police, who came in numbers to apprehend Karlson and inadvertently gave him internet immortality.
To say that Karlson did not come quietly is an understatement.
His bundling into a police car by half a dozen burly constables and an off-duty detective has become the stuff of legend.
Karlson himself had a deep, stentorian, and highly theatrical voice booming from his rumpled, larger-than-life, Falstaffian figure, adding to the spectacle.
Looking over the roof of the car at the TV camera, policemen struggling to contain, let alone restrain him, Karlson gave the performance of his life.
'What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?' he boomed with a rolled-r flourish that can’t be replicated in print: it simply has to be watched.
Then Karlson pointed at one of the officers: 'See that chap over there?' he bellowed, before demanding (he later admitted without foundation) that the policeman 'get your hand off my penis!'.
It was only then that Karlson was finally subdued and taken away to the local ‘cop shop.
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