Thieves had been seen driving stolen excavators down a Melbourne avenue within the early hours of the morning, with one nearly hitting a pedestrian.
Police are calling for assist to trace down the offenders who stole the excavators from a Frankston constructing website, inflicting important harm to the positioning.
Police imagine a number of individuals broke right into a constructing website on the nook of Fletcher Road and Cranbourne Street in Frankston, in Melbourne's south-east, earlier than they stole a number of excavators and triggered important harm.
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It seems the excavators had been pushed across the constructing website, earlier than one crashed via the positioning fence, in line with police.
A person who has reported seeing an excavator being pushed down Seaside Road about 2am has informed police he needed to take evasive motion to keep away from being hit by excavator.
He has informed police one of many offenders requested him for cocaine earlier than yelling, "Welcome to Frankston".
Police say the offenders then drove down Stanley Road and dumped an excavator in Queen Road.
It's believed the excavator was additionally pushed up onto a footpath and used to break a medical centre fence on the nook of Seaside and Stanley streets.
Police are calling for witnesses or anybody with info or dashcam footage to come back police.