What the heck? Firearms at the MCG

[Nikita Blue]

Any insight as to why these two **** knuckles were carrying guns? Were they planning to use them? Or do they just take them everywhere in case?

Hope it's the latter.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Any insight as to why these two **** knuckles were carrying guns? Were they planning to use them? Or do they just take them everywhere in case?

They'll be crime gang. Think tobacco wars and bikie adjacent.

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

Some more details in the ABC article, including the names of the offenders.

A witness called ABC Radio Melbourne and said it happened in Gate 3 (Olympic Stand).

Guns smuggled into MCG prompt calls for urgent security review

The men were arrested and charged after allegedly bringing two guns and ammunition into the MCG during Thursday nights Carlton-Collingwood clash.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Underarm]

Any insight as to why these two **** knuckles were carrying guns? Were they planning to use them? Or do they just take them everywhere in case?

They were kicked out and arrested before the police even knew they had weapons. If their intent was to use them, they would have.

 

[Kipz]

Doubt it has anything to do with Carlton

Obvious to all that they didnt bring any guns to the G last night

 

[Daka]

Now it will take forever to get in & seated.

 

[Satan]

nice deflection from 47

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Wasnt there 2 supporters last year at this exact same game that got busted with a weapon?

 

[BillyElliott]

Some more details in the ABC article, including the names of the offenders.

A witness called ABC Radio Melbourne and said it happened in Gate 3 (Olympic Stand).

Guns smuggled into MCG prompt calls for urgent security review

The men were arrested and charged after allegedly bringing two guns and ammunition into the MCG during Thursday nights Carlton-Collingwood clash.

www.abc.net.au

Assistant Commissioner Therese Fitzgerald said the men were both on bail at the time.

"It is known that one of the offenders is a prohibited person and should not have been carrying a firearm," she said.

Really? Stating the obvious I would have thought.

 

[Teagueeee15]

Wasnt there 2 supporters last year at this exact same game that got busted with a weapon?

It probably happens a lot more than the police and MCC will admit.

If these 2 weren’t misbehaving enough to get kicked out, nobody would have known they were armed.

The Securecorp guards look half asleep and disinterested most of the time, so this probably happens more than we think it does.

 

[Sentinel]

So now we'll just have to put our firearms inside a thermos to get through.

 

[caloschwaby]

Incredibly dumb. We are just fortunate they weren’t dumb enough to pull them out and threaten someone causing crowd panic or worse shoot someone.

Also a bad failure on the part of security that these weren’t detected.

We will very much enjoy the longer queues for searches now. Did they go through the normal security protocol or did they manage to bypass it?

I entered through Gate 3 10 mins before the game. No security at all no the right side of the metal gates and a gap that led straight into scan a ticket. Possible they just slipped through there.

 

[BillyElliott]

I entered through Gate 3 10 mins before the game. No security at all no the right side of the metal gates and a gap that led straight into scan a ticket. Possible they just slipped through there.

"Our security screening units identified items of concern and further investigation was required, our initial internal investigation identified a breakdown in the thoroughness of the secondary and manual screening process," he said in a statement.

 

[Augustine]

• Possession of an Unregistered Firearm – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 6
  • Maximum penalty: 10 years imprisonment (for a category E longarm or handgun).

• Possession of a Firearm in a Public Place – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 130
  • Maximum penalty: 7 years imprisonment.

• Possession of a Firearm While Prohibited (if applicable) – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 7
  • If they are already prohibited from possessing a firearm, the penalty increases.
• Possession of a Firearm with a Defaced or Altered Serial Number – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 151*
  • Maximum penalty: 10 years imprisonment.

• Unauthorised Possession of a Handgun (if applicable) – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 7*
  • Maximum penalty: 14 years imprisonment.

Not to mention the breaches of bail, endangerment of public safety. And with the public narrative around “soft sentencing” by judges, and even the prime minister saying “throw the book at them”. These guys are stuffed.

****ing idiots.

 

[Satan]

• Possession of an Unregistered Firearm – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 6
  • Maximum penalty: 10 years imprisonment (for a category E longarm or handgun).

• Possession of a Firearm in a Public Place – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 130
  • Maximum penalty: 7 years imprisonment.

• Possession of a Firearm While Prohibited (if applicable) – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 7
  • If they are already prohibited from possessing a firearm, the penalty increases.
• Possession of a Firearm with a Defaced or Altered Serial Number – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 151*
  • Maximum penalty: 10 years imprisonment.

• Unauthorised Possession of a Handgun (if applicable) – Firearms Act 1996 (Vic) s 7*
  • Maximum penalty: 14 years imprisonment.

Not to mention the breaches of bail, endangerment of public safety. And with the public narrative around “soft sentencing” by judges, and even the prime minister saying “throw the book at them”. These guys are stuffed.

****ing idiots.

if there club members will they lose their membership ?

 

[Augustine]

if there club members will they lose their membership ?

lol least of their problems. Life ban from AFL you’d imagine.

 

[tugga]

So you’re out on bail and you bring a loaded gun to the footy.
Then proceed to behave in such a way that people around you call security.
Security asks them to leave and they don’t.
Cops called and finds gun.
It beggars belief.

 

[Tadpole]

if there club members will they lose their membership ?

It be a bigger punishment to make them keep it.

But seriously, yes, those two absolute twatwaffles should have their memberships microwaved, and be banned for life from attending any event at the MCG, at the least - along with whatever the police decide to throw at them.

 

[Tadpole]

So you’re out on bail and you bring a loaded gun to the footy.
Then proceed to behave in such a way that people around you call security.
Security asks them to leave and they don’t.
Cops called and finds gun.
It beggars belief.

Those two aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

 

[The Terrible Thinker]

Definitely sends a scare through all public events with security now. Hell there was an incident at an airport recently to where a guy with shot gun made it all the way to the cabin of a passenger aircraft.

That should never happen in today's world but budget cutbacks will always occur to save a dollar and security costs would be first to get cut.

 

[Romeoh1]

I entered through Gate 3 10 mins before the game. No security at all no the right side of the metal gates and a gap that led straight into scan a ticket. Possible they just slipped through there.

Yep- I’ve been scanned lots of times but it’s all pretty casual, a bit random and a bit sloppy.

 

[skipper kelly]

They aren't rocket surgeons that's for sure.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Some more details in the ABC article, including the names of the offenders.

 

[Kipz]

Now it will take forever to get in & seated.

Not if you're a Melbourne supporter

 

[Satan]

Not if you're a Melbourne supporter

Were at Kardina pork tonight