Disgraced AFL star Ben Cousins has been hospitalised after he was apprehended behaving strangely on the side of a busy Perth highway.
Police were called to Canning Bridge at 7.25pm last night after reports Cousins was standing in the middle of the road directing traffic and “behaving erratically”.
Witnesses told Seven News Cousins was “incoherent” and acting dangerously, allegedly jumping on a motorcycle rider and attempting to pull him off his bike.
“We were standing right there and one metre in front of us a red motorbike stopped and he ripped him off,” a female witness told the TV network. “He [the motorcyclist] jumped back on his bike and took off.”
Cousins on his way to court in 2012.
Another witness spoke of the fear she felt when Cousins approached her.
“He came down here and ran down this path here and, honestly, I started s—-ing myself because I thought it was a crazy person.
“He was really lost, confused, making no sense at all. Seven or eight cop cars turned up left, right and centre. They even had the helicopter above us.”
“He looked like a bit of a mess. His jeans were riding really low and he was running and sweating heaps.”
Police put Cousins, who has a history of drug abuse, into an ambulance and escorted him to Fiona Stanley Hospital.
Cousins was the star member of the West Coast Eagles and one of the greatest AFL players of his era until his problems with substances dragged his professional and personal lives into a downward spiral.
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