Bar owner calls drug raid 'joke'

Tony Soprano – FOTM?

IF this is the same guy featured in Tooks’ link..

IF you are a ‘Colourful Sydney (Dog) Racing Identity’ and the subject of much media innuendo, it makes sense to change your name – fresh start, new city and all that.

But could there be a worse choice than Tony Soprano? Why not go completely brain dead and go with Al Capone?

Dumb AND smartarsed is a bad combination. Well done Plod.

Like I was saying in a previous post – being served your meals by biker/felon looking waiters who look like they want to smack your head in did give the place a really suss feel! The burgers were so good though. I am going to miss a certain flirty Barmaid there too.

Not going there again knowing that Soprano is a known felon.

Good on the cops for pouncing so fast on the business. Even if they didn’t find anything – it’s the thought that counts!

ex-vectis said :

Is it the same Tony Soprano? If so, thats the (fisrt and) last time I’m going to The London!

Certainly looks like the owner of The London.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/tony-soprano-accused-of-making-man-an-offer-he-couldnt-refuse/story-e6freuy9-1225761152425

“ALL muscles and imposing stature, Tony Soprano allegedly did not mince words.

“You’ve got a house, you’ve got a Harley, and you’ve got a car – what else you got? What else you got?”

His cowering victim didn’t reply – he was in fear for his life…”

Reminds me of the spoon the Romans found in Life of Brian.

Is it the same Tony Soprano? If so, thats the (fisrt and) last time I’m going to The London!

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/indepth/sydneys-tony-soprano-the-former-ali-bilal/story-fn2mt2ft-1225749467454#suburbinfo_popup

nice_enough said :

Are there any bars clubs or restaurants in Canberra that are not owned by drug dealing crooks?

It’s a bit like that silly story on ABC last week about the “dark secret” of tattoo parlours – that the money really goes to organised crime. Since when was that a secret?

Hospitality certainly attracts unethical types, perhaps not always proper crooks, but certainly bad types.

There’s the local restauranteur whose former business partner recently chased him around the kitchen of one of his current establishments with a knife.

Then there’s the local bar owner whose wife’s bar went bust after operating at a loss for years and who himself was found to be in breach of workplace laws around the same time he called in an MP mate to help him skip a DUI charge.

There have been curious brawls, evictions and so on. Asian cafe in Manuka many years ago comes to mind. In fact the bar owner referred to above accused several other bar owners of trying to turf him out to convert the building into a new nightclub.

Mr Waffle said :

Wouldn’t it only take 20 minutes for a drug sniffer dog to go through the place?

They’ll be looking for anything that links them with the “motorcycle gangs”, so any financial records. Any sheets of paper with details/names/numbers etc. Weapons that can’t be smelt with a dog. If its not a cash dog, it might not be able to smell cash. etc