Road rage terrifies girls
Seth cultivates growing business A BUDDING entrepreneur is eyeing a prosperous career in the plant trade – and he’s only nine. Aspendale boy Seth Murran started his own retail business over the school holidays. Growing succulents in pots he sold them to passersby at the front gate before making the commercial decision to relocate to the footpath outside the shops in Station St. The Parkdale Primary School pupil charges customers $3-$5 for each plant and then reinvests his earnings back into buying more plants. He displays his stock on a purpose-built stand and has “sold quite a few plants” over the past four weeks, proud mum Claire Venter said. “He sold seven yesterday and 10 the day before and, to keep stock levels high he buys 10 news plants every day.” The novice businessman has a strategy behind his sale pitch. “He says he likes to approach the grumpy ones because he thinks they need a few plants to cheer themselves up,” Mrs Venter said. “I tell him that’s what it’s like to be a salesman.” Mrs Venter said Seth was “constantly talking about his business and thinking up ways to expand”. “I’m not one of those parents who says ‘yes’ to everything he asks for and he wasn’t making enough money to buy things through doing chores around the house, so the plant-selling business is his means-to-an-end.” The entrepreneurial spirit must run in the family. Little brother Noah, 7, has started making crunchie biscuits to sell for $2 a bag alongside Seth’s plants. This could be the start of a growing retail empire.
IN a fit of road rage, an irate driver waved a syringe at four terrified young girls in the car beside him and physically threatened the passenger of another car in Edithvale Rd, Edithvale, 8pm, Friday 6 January. The man, 33, of Bulleen, was later apprehended by Frankston police and will be charged on summons with five counts of unlawful assault and assault with a weapon. Witnesses say the man drove a black Mercedes and was overtaking stationary traffic in the bike lane until a parked car 50 metres from Station St blocked his way. The man allegedly became angry when he could not fit his car into the traffic lane and waved his arm at the female driver of a Hyundai sedan with three young women aboard. He was seen to be holding a syringe containing a clear liquid. The frightened woman allowed the man to cut in front of her car so he would “not hurt the girls”, Chelsea police said later. When the traffic began to move and the bike lane again became free the man drove off and cut in front of another car whose male passenger, 44, jumped out and took his picture. The Mercedes driver then got out and shaped up to the man, “waving his arms and challenging him to have a go”. “The girls in the vehicle were scared as to what the man would do next,” police said. “They were screaming at [the passenger] to get back in his car and he did.” The Mercedes driver got back in his car and made “an erratic” turn through and amber light and continued south along Nepean Highway. When police apprehended the man he admitted waving the syringe and acknowledged the girls would have “been a little concerned”. He said he was “mucking around” and denied he intended to harm or hurt them.
Budding business: Ruth Falconer happy to buy a plant from Seth Murran. Picture: Gary Sissons
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18 January 2017
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