Perth Voice Interactive

IT’S not the sort of thing you expect to see at 1pm on a Tuesday, not even on Charles Street: a man seemingly unconscious on the dirty paving of a bus-stop, a bottle of liquor at his feet, traffic zooming past.

Voice photographer Matthew Dwyer stumbled across the scene while out taking photos: he tried speaking to the man to see if he was alright but couldn’t get much response.

He didn’t figure it was a police emergency so, since it was a City of Vincent-marked bus stop—advertising bourbon, no less—he called the rangers. A passing bus driver was also asked to radio home base about it.

Our snapper moved on to his next job and was surprised to get a call 10 minutes later from the rangers saying they weren’t equipped to deal with it after all, weren’t going to attend and he should call the cops or an ambulance.

Concerned no-one had seen to the guy Dwyer scooted back, to find the man had cracked his face open on something.

The man got aggro when Dwyer tried helping him up. He then managed to stumble his way onto a bus and that was it.