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| Massive street brawl in Adelaide after first Miss Africa beauty pageant |
| 2010-10-04 |
| Australian multi-culturism in action. FOUR men suffered stab wounds as a day of intermittent violence following South Australia's first Miss Africa pageant erupted into a vicious all-in brawl. Up to one hundred Africans armed with with knives, tyre levers, clubs, makeshift batons and a bedpost fought a pitched battle in Adelaide's Bent Street near the Austral Hotel early today. "Clearly they had prepared themselves with weapons in the event that they did come together, which they did," Chief Inspector John Gerlach told reporters. Police eventually broke it up and arrested four men while four others were admitted to hospital with stab wounds. A 21-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen and arm, a 19-year-old in the chest and stomach, a 19-year-old in the arm and a 20-year-old in the back. "All four did receive surgery and are stable," Inspector Gerlach said. The brawl was the culmination of 24 hours of violent clashes initiated by a fight involving 150 African people on Saturday night as they spilled out of a nightclub in Hindley Street. No injuries or arrests were reported from that initial clash or some smaller skirmishes reported to police in the 24 hours leading up to today's wild brawl. Police believe many of those involved in the violence had travelled from interstate for the Miss Africa beauty pageant in Adelaide on Saturday. Inspector Gerlach praised the officers who responded promptly to the major brawl, saying their intervention had prevented more injuries. "No doubt the management of the incident prevented further injury and possibly people dying as a result," he said. Police have charged a 20-year-old man from Victoria with aggravated assault causing serious harm and affray. A 19-year-old man from Kilburn, in Adelaide's north, a 21-year-old man from Victoria and a 22-year-old man from Western Australia have been charged with behavioral street offences and weapons offences. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #10 Something like a large, headless bolt, then? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-04 18:56 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6 When bedposts are outlawed...only outlaws will have bedposts. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2010-10-04 11:51 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
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| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2010-10-04 07:55 |