G'day Bazel here! Well I’m only just starting to see the light of day and have almost recovered from my massive week long bender. I think I’m done for a little while now...till next week ha ha
The weekend was a destructive glorious blur from one festive drinking session to the next (with my liver giving notice) Getting away from annoying relatives was appreciated though totally wishing I had just 10% of their adult sensibility, composure and restraint right now....
So now I have my bearings and had a chance to speak to Sage about some in-house deets, I’m glad to hear that over 1000 people were let loose into the confines of Consortium to see in the new-year with the Full Noise New Year’s Eve party. The balloon drop was a success with many balloons loaded with prizes. This being one of their biggest nights, it was able to run pretty smooth with the 3am lockout being abolished.
3am Lockouts most pleasurable experiences with Dr Baz
1) Since urine is found in 90% of Flinders Street’s soil substructure, the urine problem will become a useful commodity. With Flinders Street becoming famous for its extraordinary Urea deposits, Townsville will become one of the biggest exporters of Urea in the world, single handily saving the fertilizer crises.... phew!
Lockout produces some interesting public urinating. Side view, back view, accidental urination, taking a slash and fourth dimension spewing simultaneously. Bashful peeing, proud peeing, angry peeing and bawling ones eye’s out and peeing? I have witnessed it all in plain view- no bushes required.....
2) Missed making lockout? Great! Join the overrun taxi cab line and enjoy the ‘3am Lockout Fighter’ You could just be eating that piece of pizza the wrong way or looking at their pig of a girlfriend dressed like strung ham (who shouldn’t be eating pizza at all) tips them into this destructive sliding scale of immense stupidity- influenced only by the twilight zone, that is, 3am lockout. Attacks on the innocent walkers by to the poor cab line bystanders tolerating these “Bogan-innious-commonis” who speak at a million decibels (because everyone apparently is hearing impaired) My secret wish would be to quietly push them in front of a cab moving at 100km/h...oops (It’s not murder if it looks like an accident)
With the influx of well behaved patrons, doesn’t this say something about the clubs extended lockout till 5am? Tax payer’s beware! Let’s make more ridiculous rules we really don’t need. Let’s justify our jobs in our cushy government departments. Let’s just create a 3am lockout that will cause unrest and call it “The monitoring of the drink safe precinct” We’ll create jobs for mates, we get to visit Townsville, the boss will pay for everything...awesome!
So who would like to see 3am lockout abolished? I would love to hear from you. What do you think Finders Street should do?
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Consortium New Years Eve Photos
Consortium New Years Eve Photos
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I kind of think lockout is good for keeping drunk messes out of clubs, but its true they piss everyone off once you leave. When drunk ppl r kicked out of clubs, they should be kicked out a secret underground exit which leads into ross creek, and they should have to swim over to palmer street. That will surely sober them up, and that way they also dont go out onto flinders st to piss everyone else off. Definitely need public toilets though, but who would maintain these? They would be gross!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cozzie! toilets would be a great idea. Great comment you go in the draw to win $500! cheers Bazel
ReplyDeleteIf we didn't have the 3.00am lockout, we wouldn't have the issues with the toilets, because people would be able to get into the clubs. The council are requesting the venues clean the toilets that are to be built on the street. Why??? When the venues have there own. It should be the responsibility of the council. In any busy public places toilets are provided by councils and maintained. We are lucky in Townsville late night trade is confined to one area.
ReplyDeleteA main concern to stop alcohol fueled violence, is to name and shame the offenders. For the amount of people that frequent Flinders St, we get the odd few people wanting to cause trouble. They should be held more accountable for there actions. Named, shamed and BIGGER fines for them. If people are educated that these will be the circumstances, they will be thinking twice before they go picking fights or causing trouble.
I agree with Bazel's hummor, the bureaucrats that make all these ridiculous regulations are not in touch with real life situations. They sit behind a desk, make up new rules and are not in touch with the real world.
Public toilets would get destroyed and be too disgraceful to use....
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the lockout needs to be taken away, and possibly replaced with a 3am 1 drink/person limit or increase in drink prices.
Also, stronger implementation of RSA laws would help curb the fools that are Flinders St warriors. One of the Drink Safe precinct things that I believe was a success was banning people from being in the precinct who had proven that they could not behave in a proper manner.
By not having the lockout people can still access toilet facilities in a reasonable fashion (can you imagine 300 people that have just been locked out all trying to share a public toilet block?), plus having people broken up into smaller groups, being supervised as such by a greater security/person ratio? Not too hard to work out...
Some good ideas Morgan thanks for the great comments- you go in the draw to win $500 Cash and heaps of other prizes:) Cheers Bazel
ReplyDeleteWhat a waist of time the 3.00am lockout is. It creates more problems than its worth. Either everything finishes at 3.00, which i do doubt will ever happen, or clubs run with the normal opperating hours. Their are litrally thosands of people in Flinders st on a weekend out enjoying themselves, every now and then, u get the few odd tools that think they are big hero's and want to cause a drama, i agree let's get tougher on the idiots who want to wreck it for the majority who are having a good time. Lets face it we all love to let loose and have a night out with our mates, people have done it for years and years, now all these new rules when it could quite easily be fixed if the people causing the trouble were held accountable for there actions. I agree, name, shame, banned and harsher penalties to the offenders. Advertise the consequences, i gaurantee they will think twice before they turn into the big tough hero's they think they are
ReplyDeleteI feel the 3am lockout is doing more harm then good. By pushing large amounts of overly drunken patrons out onto the street, or at least restricting them access back into a safe venue, we are turning flinders street road into an environment of recklessness and violence. Not only this, but restricting peoples access back into a safe environment, one with bouncers, and staff who have been trained in the responsible service of alcohol, we are throwing people who have either had too much to drink, or even possibly slipped a more damaging substance, onto an often dangerous street full of people. Furthermore, the argument that the 3am lockout is in place to stop drunkards wandering into licensed venues off the street at some ungodly hour, is unfounded. Every venue in flinders street is equipped with a security staff that are trained to identify the signs of intoxication, and refuse access to patrons they feel are too drunk to safely enter the establishment, meaning that only responsible adults are can be permitted at ANY time of the night. Not only this, but the lockout restricts the people who are partying appropriately, or those hoping to use the bathroom, access to a venue they should be perfectly safe to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteMe and my friends love going out to town on a Saturday night, and truth be told, were are often safely in bed when 3 am comes around, but the few nights we've made it to lockout have opened our eyes to the problems this curfew creates. I hope this ridiculous enforcement is abolished, and that the government can finally start leaving the control of club security to the people who actually run these places, the security staff and venue managers.
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ReplyDeleteit would be interesting to see the police reports for behaviour on the street on NYE compared to the normal 3.00am lockout. Also taking into consideration the amount and influx of people out for NYE.
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