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| Aussie bikers foil robbery |
| 2008-02-28 |
| h/t Tim Blair Machete wielding masked bandits picked the wrong club to rob yesterday - 50 bikie club members were meeting there. Police said the robbers raided the Regents Park Sporting Club about 8.50pm yesterday, ordering people at the bar to lie on the floor. But the robbers failed to notice 50 members of the Southern Cross Cruiser Club enjoying a drink in the nearby auditorium. "Fifty of us jumped out of our seats and raced out to the main bar," said club president Jerry "Jester" van Cornewal. On seeing the bikers approaching, the robbers fled. One sprinted past patrons playing poker machines towards the back of the club when he came to closed glass door. He charged through the glass, leapt off a five-metre balcony and ran through a bowling green. The other escaped through an exit behind the bar. But Jester ran to the back of the club, waiting for the robber to emerge from the back roller door. "He came out the door wielding what I thought was a tyre lever, but was actually a samurai sword. I raced in and tackled him to the ground, footy-style, onto the concrete," Jester said. The man wriggled free, but was pursued by Jester and two other club members named "Bulldog" and Brad, and was crash-tackled again. The trio hogtied the man and waited for police to arrive. Police soon also located the second robber nearby. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 Humungus, ruler of the wasteland, Ayotollah of Rock and rolla, without the nuclear holocaust and fall of civilization the might have made him famous in an alternate Mad Max Earth, found that being a member of a biker club was just dandy as long as the occasional idiot robbers showed up. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-02-28 17:09 |
| #5 If they didn't get free booze for the rest of the night and a permanent invitation to meet there whenever they wanted then there is something seriously wrong at the Regents Park Sporting Club. If I owned the place I'd put up cameras so that if that ever happened again we'd have replays over and over. What a freaking great story. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-02-28 17:05 |
| #4 Idiots of the day? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-02-28 11:13 |
| #3 Footy-style, I like it. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-28 08:24 |
| #2 He charged through the glass, leapt off a five-metre balcony and ran through a bowling green. Mind the Greens etiquette please: Don't |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-02-28 07:26 |
| #1 Have a Fosters on me, mates. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-02-28 07:16 |