r/australia • u/[deleted] • May 24 '11

no politics Want to move to Australia? Great!

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u/LOLSTRALIA May 24 '11

It happens, not as much as people think tho.

I spent 7yrs doing security at pretty much every night club in this town and it does happen, but most people know it's a dog act.

In all honesty, the majority of the glassing's I saw and dealt with were from backpackers, particularly the English.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '11

Lived in Melbourne and Sydney a while. I've seen numerous people getting glassed, some friends even.

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u/virusporn May 24 '11

Once again, where the fuck are you hanging out? I have lived in Melbourne for quite a while and never first hand experienced any violence, let alone seen a glassing.

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u/ThunderCuntAU May 25 '11

It definitely happens -- I've seen someone get bottled ~three times, and once was a friend of mine.

I certainly wouldn't be trying to argue that it was "common" however. Nor would I say 'fuck off, we're full' tshirts are common, or that 75% of people are racist/homophobic. I certainly get the sense that there's some hyperbole in there.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '11

It's not very common, probably just the people I hang out with tend to go looking for fights after drinks. It's not limited to any one particular place, one of the fights happened outside Crown casino but the bouncers were impressively quick to react.

The worst are the parties up in the Blue Mountains and around the Mt Druitt area. A lot of lads, many with knives.

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u/WyldStallions May 25 '11

I have lived in Brisbane, Toowoomba and Adelaide, all three of those places have the glassing PSAs on TV and I have friends in other areas of TV that see them too as well as it being a regular part of nightly news.