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 Posted: 05/19/06 - 08:07 Post subject: Why its fun to be Australian
First there's the fights on TV and er, well, other places too.
Australian boxing bout sparks brawls
19 May 2006
SYDNEY: Pugnacious Australians just love a good fight – in the ring or in the pub. Some 30 bar brawls broke out across the nation, and one man died in a fight, on Wednesday night following a much-hyped televised bout between Aboriginal boxer Anthony "The Man" Mundine and Danny "The Machine" Green.
Mundine, an ex-footballer renowned for his quick mouth and flamboyant clothes, won the super middleweight non-title fight on points at Sydney's Olympic Stadium, but not everyone was happy.
Police in the western city of Perth, Green's home town, said they were called to 13 hotel brawls involving up to 60 people. One man died in hospital after being punched to the ground in a hotel carpark and hitting his head on the pavement.
In South Australia, police were called to break up 14 hotel fights and police in the northeastern state of Queensland had to sort out three brawls involving some 50 people.
A violent brawl in a hotel in New South Wales state left a bystander with a suspected fractured wrist and another person suffered cuts from a broken glass.
Police told local media that the fights were fuelled by alcohol and, depending on who you supported, the fight outcome.
They also said many hotels were unprepared for the large crowds that gathered to watch the bout live on cable television.
"All had been drinking and watching the fight live on TV," said a police spokesman.
"Either it wasn't a popular win and they were fighting over the result or they were just fuelled by too many drinks and then suddenly everyone thinks they're Rocky Balboa."
Then there's the twarting of would be robbers.
Bar patrons surprise would-be robbers
19 May 2006
By DYLAN WELCH
Sydney Morning Herald
SYDNEY: The bar stool is mightier than the knife, a fact three would-be robbers discovered last night at a Chippendale pub when they were forced to flee empty handed under a barrage of the offending pieces of furniture.
The Berkeley Hotel on Abercrombie Street was entertaining around 50 drinkers just after 9pm last night when three men wearing hooded jackets with their faces obscured burst in and demanded money.
One of the men waved a large knife at a female employee while the other two, one possibly armed with another knife, stood guard in the bar.
But the would-be robbers ended up with a severe case of size-envy (< ???) when some of the patrons objected to the interruption to their evening and pelted them with the hotel's bar stools.
The three startled offenders turned and fled, and were last seen running down Eveleigh Street in Redfern.
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