Woman attacked at Summernats

Seepi – I was at Summernats two years ago on a Saturday and I was scared for my safety at 4pm. By then almost all the guys were off their face and began pulling at my shirt and jeans. I would hate to be there at 9pm but the exit is always there and any girl who thinks that kind of attention is good, will no doubt get whatever is coming for her.

Easy Al – take your camera, get some pictures of the ‘tits’ to show your missus, and she will understand that you’re going to see the cars. There needs to be some serious quality control measures applied to the tits that see daylight.

From the glowing post bogannats report in the CT today, I’m guessing they got clobbered about the skewed and incorrect (“random attack”) reporting yesterday.
I’d love to go to check out the cars, but I think the missus would think I was only going to check out tits…

i dont think the overemphasis on jack daniels everywhere helps.

Maybe a rebranding from Summernats to Bogannats is in order ?

Can’t people lose their liquor liscence if they don’t practice responsible service of alcohol? I’d be interested to know whether the relevant people have been alerted.

quality of cars was well down on previous years. i was a bit ticked off that there was a mass unveiling of ‘top cars’ late friday night, some hours after id left.

price gougers were out in force. 4 bucks for a coke! 20 bucks for batteries! amazing.

there were a lot of really good quality cars, but i feel the event needs rejuvenating.

i think they need a competition based on winners of shows throughout the year only being able to enter the top class.

as for other things, like better quality trade stands (same stands every year) – no idea, but give me 300k and i’ll try. i dropped some dough in the trade stands but didnt see anything new.

Take out things like the late night strip show on Saturday night, make it alcohol free, and close it at 8pm every night and you would see the genuine enthusiasts flock to the sight. Sure the numbers may drop, but you’d then get the genuine motor enthusiasts involved rather than the Holden v Ford JD in a can bogans that predominate.

Hell, they might even attract families.

Henry makes BS statements to suit his and no-one else’s agenda. Remember the remarks about preventing urban development nearby which could cramp the style of his once-a-year event.

Have a look at the examples of motor shows/festivals run by genuine enthusiasts which ficus on the cars, not the peripheral issues. Certain towns beg these festivals to come back every year.

Summernats is just a piss drinking fest. Throw in the occasional breast and its nothing but a living, breathing Picture magazine article. It could be so much better than that.

Watching the crowds leave on Saturday night, and seeing that at least 75% of them were pissed, makes me wonder what sort of responsible service of alcohol policy they employed. I’d suggest none, just serve as much as you can.

I went to the Nats on Saturday, haven’t been for 10 years. There are less quality vehicles, trade stands and more dickheads. They should stop promoting alcohol and the girls and maybe Summernats will become a car show not a yob fest where enthusiasts can feel safe about bringing their cars.
Chic needs to stop promoting women and cars, and tell the crowds of f’wits that the verbal abuse\physical abuse of women is not on. It only takes a little bit of leadership.

As for the 300K gift , it was probably used to produce a booklet that was an advertisement for some of Canberra’s places to eat and drink, Dicksontradies, Sinsations etc, maybe that is why the local government did specify what it was used for?

Summernats is about making a few people wealthy and it’s out of control… get rid of it.

I don’t think anyone seriously expects bogans to never have a bit of a biff, I guess summernats gets them together, so a little bit of this is not surprising. Despite the seriously bogan behaviour of the crowd, the mood is vastly more amiable than, say, the taxi line in civic in the early hours of Sunday morning.

I agree, it is the bogans that are responsible for summernats brawling.

seriously, this sort of thing happens every weekend in civic.

summernats is not responsible for bogans brawling.

I love how after these incidents the victim(s)always say the “attack was totally unprovoked.”

And, why give Summernats a hard time – these sort of attacks/assults happen in Civic most Saturday nights.

I went to the nats on Saturday arvo for a wander around, and by about 5pm it was fairly clear that the security team had basically lost control of the crowd (especially in the shanty town area). I saw several instances of security guards pushing cars sideways while doing burnouts (huge ones) to keep them on the road, so as to appease a very noisy and insistent crowd. There were a few nasty scrubbers lifting their tops, too, but nothing worth watching.

I am a car enthusiast for sure, but far out some dickhead behaviour goes on in there (and unfortunately it is NOT just one or two people who do it). My advice to females is to stay the hell away. That way the bogans who want to cause trouble can do so (at their own risk), and those of us that want to watch some cars but don’t want to scream and grope women can view from several metres back. Oh, and don’t bring your kids – that’s just madness. It must be said, though, that at any point you can walk a few metres back from the crowd and have plenty of personal space. Also, I didn’t see anyone deliberately picking fights.

All the badging and symbolism of this event is about “big donk” cars, big noisy engines… it’s not a leap to see what it links in to.

I don’t think it really is a “real” enthusiast’s event. I think they use the guys who spend years doing up their cars to attract the big money spenders, those undesirable bogan hangers-on, who are more numerous, and who are the offensive element.

The Summernats are a giant bogan dick-fest, with the amazing cars as the ostensible main event.

The problem with Summernats is not the few GENUINE car enthusiasts that spend a squillion dollars on doing up their cars as a labour of love and a hobby… but rather as LIC has already said it is the thousands of bogans hangers-on that otherwise make the event commercially viable that create the problems.

Also whilst I have no problem (in principle) with the government contributing to community and public events, however I do find highly questionable the complete lack of accountability for failing to insist that the money is auditable to specific outcomes or purposes related to the event.

So, I assume when I next organize a community event, cry poor, get a Government handout (funded by ACT rate and tax payers), that they wont mind if I decide the most appropriate use of that money is to pocket it myself? Why? Because there is no audit mechanism after the event there is no need to keep records or prove what I actually used the money for…

If the hippies can have exhibition park for five days for the folkies and the white-picket-families can have it for the canberra show, let the boguns have it for a little while. After all, they make up a sizable proportion of this city. Just lock the gates, though. Don’t let anyone else in. And let me have a look at the cars. And the ladies showing off their ‘ahem’ wares.

I see Chic Henry is disowning any link between any violence and Summernats. Err, Chic, take a look in the mirror. You invite thousands of bogans into your event, what sort of behaviour do you expect. All this fighting and bad behaviour might be normal for boganville, but normal civilised people manage to restrain themselves generally.

Apparently staff were sent home from one of the Reject Shop outlets. A group of guys turned up, beers in hand and proceeded to have fun with the merchandise and assault the young female staff.

To buy votes.

And schmerica is right, no sober woman would go into the ‘Nats on a Saturday night.

well you’d only know if you’d already been there once wouldn’t you?

What on earth makes men want to spit on and punch women? And why did our govt subsidise this event again??

I’m probably going to be ripped to peices for saying this…

But being a 20 yr old female, you KNOW that you don’t go to Summernats on Saturday night. Its just asking for trouble. Saturday day? Sure, go for it! Saturday night? No. By Saturday night most of the guys are too drunk and will grope, spit on, abuse and do anything they feel like to females. Yeah, it sucks, but it happens each year so I have no idea why these girls keep on going back for more.

Take this with a grain of salt as it is second-hand information from an onlooker(I showed him the picture on the front page of the Canberra Times and he confirmed that it was a girl that he had seen in a fight). But the attack was not unprovoked and the girl may have got what she deserved.

Supposedly it started with the girl, her boyfriend and a group of other guys approaching an individual and the girl claiming that the individual had spat on her, the boyfriend got up in his face but the individual seemed to have no idea what they were talking about and tried to walk away, he got headbutted and started bleeding from the nose and walked off.

Another group (possibly the individuals friends) came up and got in the face of the boyfriend, who didn’t want to fight now that his group was more evenly matched. Someone from one of the groups started swinging and the girlfriend went charging at them. He didn’t see exactly what happened in the commotion but he did see the boyfriend carrying his girlfriend out because she got KO’d.

I do not condone violence against women, but I do believe in equality of sexes. If you’re going to be a c*nt regardless of your sex then you deserve to get KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT!

Errrr, I went. I saw the hoons egg on the women.

Pandy

Wake up. Summernats is a car show – unfortunately, it only takes one pissed fuckwit to ruin the reputation of the event, and you then cast the slur over anyone who attends the event…

If generalisations are the go, all priests are kiddie fiddlers, all Catholics are like Tony Abbott (you poor bastards), and all senior public servants are sycophantic yes men. 😉

thats summernats for you.

Noticed how all the Ms Summernats look the same?