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2010-10-04 Down Under

Massive street brawl in Adelaide after first Miss Africa beauty pageant

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Posted by phil_b 2010-10-04 02:29|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

Why would you have a Miss Africa beauty pageant in Australia?

Why wold anyone in Australia hold a beauty pagent at the same time as the AFL Grand Final replay? I mean, would anyone be watching?

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-10-04 07:55|| 2010-10-04 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 What, you mean a bunch of territorial gangs all got together in the same place, and a conflict broke out because they all attempted to stake a claim? Say it isn't so!

Love the tribal weapons, too. But missing the rape and massive deaths of true African clashes.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-04 10:48|| 2010-10-04 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would you have a Miss Africa beauty pageant in Australia?

Less violence than on the home continent? Four guys stabbed is pretty pitiful by African beauty pageant stands.

Posted by SteveS 2010-10-04 10:50|| 2010-10-04 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Up to one hundred Africans armed with with knives, tyre levers, clubs, makeshift batons and a bedpost fought a pitched battle

A bedpost? That's the kind of reporting which we've been missing since college graduates seized the american media.

Fair Dinkum!

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-10-04 10:53|| 2010-10-04 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Why would you have a Miss Africa beauty pageant in Australia?

In the wake of the violence, security will be beefed up for the next Eurovision Song Contest when it convenes next spring in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Posted by Mike 2010-10-04 11:02|| 2010-10-04 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 When bedposts are outlawed...only outlaws will have bedposts.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-10-04 11:51|| 2010-10-04 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 In the 70s the local Army policy was that personally owned knives with blades longer than 6" had to be secured in the arms room of the barracks. However, during most of the 'rioting' in the same period both bed post adapters and entrenching tools were the weapon of choice among the participants.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-04 14:09|| 2010-10-04 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 during most of the 'rioting' in the same period both bed post adapters and entrenching tools were the weapon of choice

What is a bedpost adapter?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-04 18:30|| 2010-10-04 18:30|| Front Page Top

#9 It's how one made a bunk bed out of two single beds, circa 1970s barracks furniture.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-04 18:33|| 2010-10-04 18:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Something like a large, headless bolt, then?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-04 18:56|| 2010-10-04 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Piece of tubing made of a good solid chunk of metal, somewhere between 9" and 12" in length, that fits nicely into the hand of the 'one adapting' or the 'one swinging'. Sort of on the lines of - Professor Plum in the bedroom with a lead pipe.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-04 21:25|| 2010-10-04 21:25|| Front Page Top

#12 A "Miss Africa" beauty contest held in Australia - is the winner a contender to be sent off to the real contest in Africa proper???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-04 23:57|| 2010-10-04 23:57|| Front Page Top

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