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Bridgette and Paula Powers
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Bridgette and Paula Powers, identical twins from Australia, were speaking to 7News Queensland about a recent carjacking—but their unusual method of speaking in unison is what caught people's attention.

As if the play-by-play details of a carjacking aren't alarming enough, imagine hearing them twice—simultaneously.

Australian identical twins Bridgette and Paula Powers shared their eyewitness account of a carjacking that involved their mother, another man, and a car thief.


A local reporter interviewed the twins, and the clip went viral when viewers saw how the twins presented alike and spoke in unison.

In the recounting of the events, Bridgette and Paula reflected:

"One guy, he was up there with our mom. He went up there, and he was coming back down toward us. And he goes, 'Run! He's got a gun!'"
"Oh, our hearts started to pound. I said, 'Mom, where's Mom?'"
"Mom distracted him [the thief] to make him look the other way. Mom ran into the bush behind the fence, and the guy goes to her, 'I'll find you and I'll shoot you.'"
"All I was thinking about when I was running was, I hope he doesn't find her."

The pair spoke nearly verbatim until their last sentence, when one said they "ran for their life," and the other said they "ran for their safety."

You can watch them recount what happened here:

@7newsq

Witnesses are recounting the mayhem that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast. Two sisters have told of how their mother and a man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. #7NEWS

Though the reporter spent the first 20 seconds setting up the segment, some viewers were not prepared.





Back in 2021 in an interview with ABC News, Bridgette and Paula explained what it was like to speak in unison, and they acknowledged that while some people found it "annoying" and "weird," it was natural for them.

"Our special [relationship] is like a magnet."
"It's natural. Our brains must think alike at the same time. It's weird to some, and we do annoy a lot of people, but [changing our speech] doesn't feel right to us at all."
"We did try [changing our outfits, too] once, but we still got stared at. So what the heck. We might as well wear the same clothes again."

Some viewers who knew about the twins before the carjacking were grateful they were okay.





The twins had to drop out of high school in the tenth grade due to health reasons, and continued to study at home to graduate. With extra time on their hands, the pair began to focus on the conservation efforts they both wanted to pursue.

They had the unique opportunity of meeting the late and great Steve Irwin when the three of them came together to save a sick green sea turtle. They went on to work at the Australia Zoo, and developed the Twinnies Pelican and Seabird Rescue, which has since been in operation for 20 years.

While those who do not know them might find their "in-sync" appearances and speech patterns to be eerie, those who know "the Twinnies" in Australia were grateful that they were safe and could help resolve the carjacking situation.

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