Originally Posted by
nomorecatering
Sorry, but there could have been no assaults for months and some random member of the public would still say it's "out of control". Just Channel 7 milking a random incident for everything they can get out of it.
Maybe there'd be a different result from security guards provided by shops in the Mall if the security guards, properly trained of course, were armed. There is nothing like a pistol on a holster to focus the attention. I once spent 15 minutes arguing with a couple of pricks one night at an airport that were making threats and throwing around abuse and even the baggage handlers who heard the commotion and came and stood with me didn't do much to shut them up (not a criticism, I was very appreciative of the blokes, very decent thing to do but these brainless morons were going to argue regardless), BUT, when the two Victoria Police walked in, country cops with basic uniform (no ties, just open neck shirt no jacket, no caps but a (then) S&W .38 on each of their hips, these heroes turned to jelly. "Show us you're ID". "Why?" "BECAUSE I ASKED FOR IT!". One of them made a remark to one of the ladies present and no one heard what he said but the taller of the two coppers did and turned to him and yelled "SIT DOWN. SHUT UP. YOU'RE NEXT!".
The same bloke came back about 10 minutes after the cops kicked them out and we'd bought a coffee for the officers and they saw our eyes look at the doorway. One of the coppers turned around and said "Whatta you want?" the bloke said "I need to use the toilet, it's urgent". The copper with a pretty straight couldn't give a #### look on his face just looked at him and said "Terminal's closed." to which the bloke replied "But it's urgent" and the copper just said "There's a servo about 20mins down the road, off ya go, you'll be right".
Bloody brilliant. I'm sure they were hoping he'd piss out the front of the terminal so they could arrest him LOL.
The coppers must have been on night shift because the same two blokes came back the next morning and walked into the terminal and there were the two coppers leaning against the wall. "G'day" one of them said.
Of course, none of that would stop this kid but just shows that in the proper hands, just the presence of police sometimes can change the dynamic.