Pedestrian punch up

Civic used to be a no-go zone after 1-2 AM. It seems that time creeps forward every year. Seems already overrun by seedy types at 10 PM these days.

tuco said :

EvanJames said :

What is the “gesture for a fight”? and as for the passenger getting out to negotiate after that, ha, yeah right. Negotiate.

Waddayoulookinat?

Waddayoulookinatyafukkincarnt? I’d say.

tuco said :

EvanJames said :

What is the “gesture for a fight”? and as for the passenger getting out to negotiate after that, ha, yeah right. Negotiate.

Waddayoulookinat?

The bodybuilder’s version – “Are you looking at me? Good.”

c_c™ said :

And they never do anything about the illegal road crossers on Northbourne, nor do most pedestrians seem to mind crossing illegally when theres a cop car at the intersection.

I’ve seen some people get fines on the northborne and city circle intersection outside the melbourne building. Turns out if you’re drunk, nearly get hit by a car in-front of police, you can get fined.

This was a few years ago

CraigT said :

screaming banshee said :

Given the level of po-talk in the release and the immediate intervention one must assume the police were just sitting there watching until the punch was thrown.

Yes. Due to police inactivity, people have got so used to breaking small laws without ever having to take reponsibility for it, that they move on to breaking bigger laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

“The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments in a well-ordered condition may stop further vandalism and escalation into more serious crime.”

If the police ruthlessly booked everybody who drives around with their foglights on, or crossed the road against the red light, then all of our society would become much better behaved. POeople would get the feeling that their actions would have actual consequences, and thus they would think a bit more about their actions and end up behaving better.

ACT Policing are very lazy in that regard, they seem to ignore a lot of stuff that doesn’t get ignore by NSW Police. Driving through the Sydney CBD, I was surprised how many officers they had in vehicles, on motorcycles and even on foot pulling pedestrians and drivers up for offences, even if it meant blocking traffic for a few minutes. Here, the Police were right opposite someone who sped into an intersection and slammed on the breaks when they realised it was red, cops did nothing. And they never do anything about the illegal road crossers on Northbourne, nor do most pedestrians seem to mind crossing illegally when theres a cop car at the intersection.

screaming banshee said :

Given the level of po-talk in the release and the immediate intervention one must assume the police were just sitting there watching until the punch was thrown.

Yes. Due to police inactivity, people have got so used to breaking small laws without ever having to take reponsibility for it, that they move on to breaking bigger laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

“The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments in a well-ordered condition may stop further vandalism and escalation into more serious crime.”

If the police ruthlessly booked everybody who drives around with their foglights on, or crossed the road against the red light, then all of our society would become much better behaved. POeople would get the feeling that their actions would have actual consequences, and thus they would think a bit more about their actions and end up behaving better.

EvanJames said :

What is the “gesture for a fight”? and as for the passenger getting out to negotiate after that, ha, yeah right. Negotiate.

Waddayoulookinat?

What is the “gesture for a fight”? and as for the passenger getting out to negotiate after that, ha, yeah right. Negotiate.

Pork Hunt said :

Henry82 said :

c_c™ said :

um, negotiate what? Sell him a good deal on time-shares? Stupidest thing you can do, even if the other guy wasn’t, as he presumably was, drunk and dumb.

Might have wanted to politely ask for the guy to move. Particular if the guy was just standing there waiting for a response.

Also, from my understanding, you never want to be caught inside the car when attacked. You’re trapped in, seated, wedged in by a steering wheel etc.

As this video shows…

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ9Bqmzax4U

haha, how’s big Dazza’s commentary? He must’ve nearly had a heart attack every time he went to work.

Henry82 said :

Tooks said :

But you could drive off.

through the crowd of people standing in front of the car?

I get the impression that the drunks wandered across the road without looking, were honked, blocked the road and said ‘what are u gonna do about it’, guy gets out asking them to get off the road, fight starts. All with the Police watching at a distance.

I wasn’t there, but that would be my best guess on how it went down.

Yes but he was talking in general about being attacked while sitting in your car. Wasn’t commenting on this case in particular.

Going by the time of the incident I’d say city beats were out and about and were in the right place at the right time.