9 August 2006

Pratt says we're exposed following Charnwood nudie run

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The Pratt has had a sense of humour failure over a drunken nudie run from Fraser to Charnwood shops got a bit out of hand with the naked runners getting upset about being refused service and (according to Pratt) throwing bottles at shopkeepers.

The media release revells in the headline: “COMMUNITY LEFT EXPOSED AFTER POLICE INACTION ON NAKED DRUNKEN RAMPAGE”

I often wonder what kind of grey world Steve would like us to live in.

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Earlier piss-taking aside there seems to be a genuine degree of community concern – which makes me wonder – are Charnwood residents putting on airs and graces beyond their station, or has the place really come along that far in recent years with property boom driven gentrification?

Now I will admit that my last visit to this (apparently exciting and colourful) outer Canberra suburb was about six years ago. Back then security mesh was the window decoration de rigueur for the shopping precinct, no garden was complete without knee high grass and the quality of a street appeared to be measured by the number of burned out car shells … now forgive me if I appear harsh but this does not strike me as the kind of place populated by the sort of timorous souls that would find a naked drunken spree by footballers alarming.

Then again, the suggestion that these louts were in fact rugby union players at least suggests that the residents of Charnwood and its environs are aspiring to a better class of loutishness.

Locals will tell you that this was way out of control. People were genuinely scared at the time. It is not a case of a few guys drunk but harmless. They took it too far. In this case they broke a few beer bottles, they were urinating in the street and car park, and one man chased a young lady down the street (she was very scared). How would you feel if you were running a business at the shops? Not exactly a great image for attracting people to come and drop by your shops. The Police “talked” to a couple of the blokes (who were naked at the time). No action was taken. Sorry folks but it is not good enough. The Police should have acted. Bring these fellows before a court so that they may just experience a bit of public humiliation. At a minimum they should have been made to clean up their mess when they were sober.

haven’t you heard, it’s showbusiness for ugly people!

What is it with politicians and being ugly?

barking toad11:22 am 11 Aug 06

throw deb in there too booma

and wouldn’t amanda be tEh hOtNeSS

Mental image for all to enjoy: Kim Beazley dancing in a g-string with whipped cream on his nipples, with that big shit-eating grin he always seems to have…

So that’s how you enable the StickyKeys function.

I stand corrected Barking Toad, it should ABSOLUTELY be a serious criminal offence for some people to be naked, in either public or private. Names such as Bill Stefaniak, Richard Mulcahy and Kim Beazley come to mind…ugh I just vomited on my laptop.

Someone shoulda got a fire hose and soaked the bastards. On a cold night they’d have had a fun time getting home.

Is that the same Wibly Wobly that Grover has won for the past three years Thumper?

Absent Diane12:38 pm 10 Aug 06

I remember having a cards night.. and all losers of the night had to do a run from this guys house to the cooleman court side of the underpass nears royals footy club…. I think after we did it once we all started doing it for fun anyway….

Actually, this brings back fond memories of my undergraduate years – pressed hams up against the window’s of Nobbs in Manuka and then turning to bow to the shocked diners inside … someone called the cops but we were all dressed and breasting the bar at El Rancho by then … ah, great days!

barking toad11:42 am 10 Aug 06

booma, some people should not be allowed naked in public. Or private.

I was dining with an ex one evening, she had been O/s for a year.

We saw a nudie run lope past us and she commented that she finally knew she was back in canberra.

Surely, out of all the MLA’s Richard Pratt would be last one to asking our police to detain a group of children, given his past experiences.

It is unfortunate that a group of kiddies, high on life decided to act in manner that a community finds offensive and threatening. But I think that the police did an awesome job, by moving this group on, rather than chucking them in a paddy wagon.

Besides the people who were naked, had the others actually committed an offence? I doubt being a bit pissed is a criminal offence and unfortunately being a tosser is not an offence either(otherwise we could have locked shit-eating Pratt up long ago). Seems like the cops did the right thing but subtley defusing the situation with their mere presence.

Even if there were some people naked in public, does anyone actually give a shit? I would rather the Police and Courts focus their resources on prosecuting more serious crimes.

And yes, thankfully the characters in question would have had their testes frozen and hopefully will be prevented from spreading their seed in the future.

In case you’re wondering – yes, this bloke is one of the reasons why we have a labour government.

barking toad9:00 am 10 Aug 06

While I commend the mayor-kicking component of pratt’s press release, when you read the whole thing the alarmism and hysteria he conveys is, well, hysterical. And what is it with these councillors and there never ending press releases – explains the scarcity of trees for firewood!

Seems plod defused the situation using common sense and may well have a yarn to the club officials on the quiet suggesting that the pissing episodes etc don’t do the club’s reputation much good and could be stored in the memory for future reference.

When I saw the initial post I thought they could have been bored census form deliverers.

Police inaction on a nudie run – I have no problems with that. The proper punishment for a nudie run in early August is that your testicles freeze and you’re unable to breed. Fair enough.

Police inaction on bottle throwing, abuse-hurling loons, on the other hand, is a bit more of a challenge. Except, of course, it isn’t inaction – it’s getting there and moving ’em on. Crisis averted before anything goes further wrong.

Thumper – can I ask why you think it was not appropriate to make some arrests, given what you said was going on?
(I don’t mean to sound like I think you’re wrong – If memory serves me, you’re far better suited to making a professional judgement on this than me – I’m just curious).

It could be an operational thing:

Policeman to nude guy: Can I have some ID please?

Nude guy: Sure here’s my driver’s licence.

Policeman: Hand on where’d you pull that from?

Nude guy: Sorry, that’s just a bit of last night curry…

I particularly liked:
“It seems that either the police have not arrested these individuals either because they do not have the resources to commit to processing these arrests or they have been curtailed by Stanhope’s human rights laws which ensure the rights of offenders are put before the right of the community to safety.”
In other words, he doesn’t have the faintest idea why the arrests weren’t made, but that doesn’t mean he can’t blame the government for it.

The closing line is a cracker:
“I demand that the Chief Minister, the Police Minister and the police crack down on the outrageous and loutish behaviour that we are seeing too much of in Stanhope’s socialist utopia,” Mr Pratt said.
Anything I added would only detract from the sheer comic beauty of that line.

Do you think they could do it at Kambah shops? Don’t know if I could justify driving across town to see nude nubile young ladies … actually, I’d drive across town if petrol was $2 a litre to see it … well only if the missus thoight I was going to Bunnings…

It would be much more fwapworthy if the raiderettes pulled this stunt. It would certainly improve match attendance if they did.

Now that I’ve actually read the press release…

The Pratt says:

“This shopkeeper was simply trying to uphold liquor licensing laws that prevent the sale of alcohol to intoxicated persons…”

I would say that this chaps biggest concern would have been … Sure, two cases of VB and a bottle of Bundy, that’ll be $100 – hey hang on a minute, where’d you get that credit card from?

Try it riding a bike! Of course the recumbent guys can ride an wank at the same time – now there’s an image I’m going to need therapy to get over…

there is nothing less attractive than a flacid penis

This sort of shit is hilarious when its drunken/stoned undergraduates – but out Charnwood way you’d have to guess it was bogan shit bags … hillarious? Probably not. A good reason for having no safety net on the minimum wage? Damn right!

Anyone who would expose the dangly bits in near freezing temperature obviously has no pride, or nothing to be proud of.

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