Equivalent Twin Sisters Go Viral for Talking in Sync Whereas Sharing Mom’s Carjacking Expertise

Australian similar twins Bridgette Powers and Paula Powers are going viral after a carjacking — however not for the precise causes one would anticipate.

The Powers twins, 50, spoke with 7News Queensland about how their mom was caught in an armed carjacking in Queensland, Australia, on Monday, April 21. 

Throughout their on-screen interview, they spoke in sync, completed each other’s sentences and answered the interviewer’s questions with the identical phrases. 

“And one man, he was up there with our mum… he goes, run, he’s acquired a gun,” one sister recalled whereas the opposite repeated the identical phrases and inflection on the identical time. “And our coronary heart began to pound. And I mentioned, ‘Oh, mum, the place’s mum?’ And poor mum was caught up there.”

The twins, who’re founders of Twinnies Pelican and Seabird Rescue, informed the 7News journalist that their mom was in a position to stay calm regardless of the armed suspect close to her.

“However apparently our courageous mum, she goes, ‘Are you alright?’ As a result of he had blood throughout his face. And he goes: ‘I’ll shoot you.’ She goes: ‘Hey, I’m right here to assist.’ ”

“Mum distracted him to make him look the opposite method, and he appeared the opposite method, and mum bumped into the bush behind the fence. The man goes, ‘I’ll discover you and I’ll shoot you.’ ”

The Powers twins mentioned in unison that they have been considering to themselves, “ ‘ I hope he doesn’t fireplace.’ ” The twins and their mom all walked away safely.

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A number of individuals who is perhaps unfamiliar with the environmentalist twins have commented on the now-viral video, remarking on their mirroring speech patterns and hand gestures. Nonetheless, the pair is well-known in Queensland for working their very own animal rescue group. They have been additionally the topic of a 2016 Good Morning Britain section, wherein Piers Morgan laughed at their synchronized solutions.

The pair started their animal rescue work after assembly Steve Irwin, with whom they solid a bond earlier than he died in 2006.

“Our brains should assume alike on the identical time,” they informed the Australian Broadcasting Firm (ABC) in 2021, they usually acknowledged it is “bizarre.” 

“We do annoy lots of people,” they mentioned. Regardless of their efforts to alter, “it does not really feel proper” to take action.

“We simply love each other to items,” they informed ABC in 2021. “We by no means get sick of each other.”