Colt45 Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 Uh-oh, look for Aussies to be handing in their metal poles soon........
Ken Gargett Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 you guys don't have bikers? or are they just angels? you could try reading some hunter thompson.
rckymtn22 Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 Ours don't have their disputes at an airport. I was wondering where the police were?
Colt45 Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 you could try reading some hunter thompson. Try some Yves Levigne.
Jay Hemingway Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 i have read many books on the hells angels. i know they have a super stronghold in australia.
FlyFishingDude Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 you could try reading some hunter thompson. Try reading "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" portraying Chuck Barris, a game show host in the US. Both delusional psychos........
ARRV Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 Ours don't have their disputes at an airport. I was wondering where the police were? Many, many people are asking the same question re the police. It is not as though the fight took 10 seconds - it was a moving brawl. The issue is that it occurred at a domestic terminal rather than international - so no jurisdiction for federal police and state police are stretched thin. That leaves the security guards who apparently did nothing [and to some degree fair enough - if I were an unarmed security guard I dare say I might merely have looked on too].
Ken Gargett Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 i had a recent 'incident' with airport security at brizzy international. some little grub, aged about 14 - someone who would have been as effective in a biker brawl as a blind nun - told me my hand luggage was too heavy and i would have to split it into two bags (the logic of that is another topic!). i had, as i often do, a second bag folded in the first (in case of duty free or any problems and from now on, idiot security staff) so did as he asked and both bags were now under the acceptable weight. he was having none of it and told me i couldn't do that, even though it was what he told me to do. he told me he was not that silly - i'd combine them when i got through. we had a somewhat heated discussion. i asked for his name (i thought that if he was going to stuff me about, i'd return the favour) and he grabbed his nametag and refused to let me see it and told me i was not entitled to know his name. i said i'd need it for the complaint. he said i was not allowed to complain - he was not einstein and would now know how incorrect he was and i understand from the management response that he was disciplined and sent for "retraining". we kept arguing (man needs a hobby) and then he decided he had had enough so started to run away. i, of course, followed. it was all a bit monty python with this idiot scurying around the airport clutching his name tag and telling me to go away and me following, waving my two bags around (which i might add were no problem at all for the next bloke when i returned) and giving him a gobful. probably not conduct i would attempt in other parts of the globe. the point of all this is does anyone really think that someone like this (and most of his collegues were nice old men, obviously with a last job before retirement) is going to have any effect on a biker gang? he'd be the first to run. seriously, airport security in australia is simply not up to anything like this and unless we want to station proper police or the army or pay for a serious security force (tho i suspect we do that already), it never will be. and if we do get the cops or army in, where next? every train station and bus depot, every supermarket and mall? sadly, you simply can't stop this happening in such places. and hunter thompson might have been psycho but at least, in his younger days, he was an extremely entertaining one.
El Presidente Posted March 22, 2009 Posted March 22, 2009 we kept arguing (man needs a hobby) No truer words said
zuma Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 Have you ever been to Ben Gurion Airport (Israel)? Now, that is real security... oh yeah, and if you don't like it, try asking for the name of one of the security guards and see what you get!
Ken Gargett Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 Have you ever been to Ben Gurion Airport (Israel)? Now, that is real security... oh yeah, and if you don't like it, try asking for the name of one of the security guards and see what you get! as i mentioned, perhaps not a course of action to be employed in other parts. but then one suspects santa claus has a better chance of a job with security at ben gurion than our young friend at brizzy.
FlyFishingDude Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 Questionable actions by check-in or security personnel, immediately ask to consult with their supervisors, be cordial and polite. Have you ever been to Ben Gurion Airport (Israel)? Now, that is real security... oh yeah, and if you don't like it, try asking for the name of one of the security guards and see what you get! Been there, Done That! Mike
JMH Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 Should we look out for you in the next episode of 'border security' ken?
shrink Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 I think that FOH should invite some of the biker boys to the next video review. I'd love to see a couple of those blokes sitting down with Ken and Smithy, smoking Habanos. Wouldn't that be a kick?
El Presidente Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 I can organise that. I predict a lack of adjectives from Smithy along the Marshmallows and Fruit Salad line
Ken Gargett Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 I can organise that. I predict a lack of adjectives from Smithy along the Marshmallows and Fruit Salad line smithy would go nuts, so to speak. a chance to wear his leathers! and i did speak to one of his superiors, nice chap but totally useless in resolving things. wanted us all to be friends.
FlyFishingDude Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 smithy would go nuts, so to speak. a chance to wear his leathers! The ones with the butt cheeks missing???
Freefallguy Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 it was all a bit monty python with this idiot scurying around the airport clutching his name tag and telling me to go away and me following, waving my two bags around (which i might add were no problem at all for the next bloke when i returned) and giving him a gobful. What a great visual that is, I'd love to have seen it. However with your travel experiences you can't say... "And now for something completely different."
Colt45 Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 However with your travel experiences you can't say... "And now for something completely different." True - I'm surprised he hasn't been banned already. I can organise that. I predict a lack of adjectives from Smithy along the Marshmallows and Fruit Salad line I think KG would make a pretty good Toecutter....
Warren Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 They weren't bikers, that was Qantas security trying to subdue Ken.
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