Identical Twin Sisters Go Viral for Speaking in Sync While Sharing Mother’s Carjacking Experience

Australian equivalent 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. 

During 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 guy, he was up there with our mum… he goes, run, he’s got a gun,” one sister recalled whereas the opposite repeated the identical phrases and inflection on the identical time. “And our heart started to pound. And I said, ‘Oh, mum, where’s mum?’ And poor mum was stuck up there.”

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

“But apparently our brave mum, she goes, ‘Are you alright?’ Because he had blood all over his face. And he goes: ‘I’ll shoot you.’ She goes: ‘Hey, I’m here to help.’ ”

“Mum distracted him to make him look the other way, and he looked the other way, and mum ran into the bush behind the fence. The guy goes, ‘I’ll find you and I’ll shoot you.’ ”

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

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Several individuals who is likely to be unfamiliar with the environmentalist twins have commented on the now-viral video, remarking on their mirroring speech patterns and hand gestures. However, the pair is well-known in Queensland for operating 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 must think alike at the same time,” they told the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 2021, and they acknowledged it’s “weird.” 

“We do annoy lots of people,” they mentioned. Despite their efforts to alter, “it doesn’t feel right” to take action.

“We just love one another to pieces,” they advised ABC in 2021. “We by no means get sick of each other.”