everyone in town is now begging for the exact thing they spent three days tiptoeing past

Fake TV police station fuels outback town's plea for real thing

Boulder, a historic town in Western Australia's Goldfields, briefly got a police station this year when producers of the Stan crime series Two Birds dressed its heritage courthouse as one for three days of filming. Hoteliers Ronnie and Stephen Maddocks said Burt Street went noticeably quiet until locals realised the post was fictional. With theft, abuse and a hammer threat against a licensed-premises worker reported, 1,171 people have signed a petition for a permanent 24-hour shopfront station, tabled in WA Parliament on September 10 by Liberal MP Neil Thomson.

Source: Fake TV police station fuels outback town's plea for real thing — ABC News AU

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