Comedy police
Chas Licciardello of “The Chaser” team got into trouble last night at the Bulldogs vs St George NRL game.
He was dressed in Bulldogs gear taking the piss out of the Bulldogs’ fans tendency towards crowd violence - armed with a Bulldogs supporters kit featuring balaclava, knuckleduster, flares, imitation knife etc. Some Bulldogs’ fans didn’t see the humour … spoilsports, and complained to police about him. He was arrested and charged with offensive conduct.
The police seem to have failed to appreciate Chas’ humour. According to their spokesman:
“This was clearly an act of mindless stupidity that had the potential to stir up the large crowd and cause serious problems,” Mr Clifford said in a statement.
Mr Clifford told ABC radio: “This fellow will be appearing inSutherland Court at a later date charged with offensive conduct.”
“We’ll see how funny he thinks all this is then.
“This sort of stuff does nothing but undermine the good work that police, the fans, club officials and the NRL have been doing in the past months and years to try to and provide a safe environment for people to go along and watch rugby league.”
Even Premier Morris Iemma got in on the act, echoing pretty much what the police had said.
Good to see NSW Police and politicians tackling the serious problem of bad taste jokes rather than things like actual crime.
Update (16/07/2006): Lots of people pointing the finger at Licciardello and “The Chaser” guys. Maybe they should be asking the Bulldogs fans why they are so easily angered and why so many of them lack the self control to handle a bit of teasing?
Update (22/07/2006): Saw the offending scenes on TV last night. Very funny. As was the Chaser team taking the piss out of it.
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July 15th, 2006 at 6:25 am
“Good to see NSW Police and politicians tackling the serious problem of bad taste jokes rather than things like actual crime.”
Tell me about it. But the end result probably turned out funnier than Licci originally expected it to be.
July 15th, 2006 at 8:41 am
I think it’s funny that the Bulldogs supporters stole some of the stuff off him.
You can’t script that kinda genius.
July 15th, 2006 at 9:32 am
This will be thrown out of court, or probably even have charges dropped.
But it’s ridiculous that this even happens.
July 15th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Honestly, I think this is summed up with the phrase “fark me….”
And the fact that the Dogs supporters pinched some of his gear… to use a D-Gen phrase, “champagne comedy”.