Thursday, September 6, 2007

Keystone Cops not amused




My day was instantly brightened with the news this morning of the Chaser’s latest greatest prank, resulting in 11 cast and crew being arrested for staging a fake motorcade through an APEC restricted security zone.

The arresting part is not that funny, possible under newly made up laws that apparently forbid anyone from entering declared zones in Sydney during APEC without justification. The authorities at ground level seemed to get the joke and even cracked a few smiles, but Police Minister David Stooge Campbell was not so easily amused.

Clues as to why police should be officially embarrassed, can be found at the yahoo news report of the event. According to yahoo, the Chaser convoy (2 motorbikes and 3 cars), was officially ushered through two checkpoints by police after sighting the team’s “insecurity” passes which expressly stated they were a joke. The keystone brigade only suspected something a miss when they spotted Osama bin Laden emerging from one of the motorcade vehicles, just metres away from G W Bushy's hotel room.


posted by theBigStinkGuide at 8:58 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger korova said...

I despise the way elected politicians (who are supposed to represent the people) feel that it is acceptable to place barriers between them and the people they represent. It is not. We own you fuckers. Deal with it.

September 7, 2007 8:38 AM  
Anonymous hugh manatee said...

Hi BSG! Funny how the Daily Tellagaff and other Turdoch papers led with "17 arrested" regarding APEC demos. Only thing is that a. that's bugger all, b. they happened almost all after the demo, c. they were mostly nonsense areests or dickhead arrestees.


The real story is that the demo was actually very diversely attended, some unions finally stuck their heads out, it was actually a surprisingly good show of fuck-you-John-and-George, and that even under special instruction to back off and not provoke anything for a change the itchy line of cops still had to have a go when most of the crowd had gone home.

Anyway - there's a bunch of fresh photos up at my page if you want to check em out or use em. Seems a waste to take pics and just have them sitting there. ;)

September 8, 2007 7:54 PM  

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