Brainache
5th September 2007, 11:23 PM
OK so not at all, and sorry if this is the wrong subforum for this, but it didn't quite fit into the CT forum:
Thursday September 6, 03:37 PM
Chaser TV team detained over APEC stunt
Eleven crew from the ABC TV comedy show The Chaser have been detained by police after staging a fake motorcade through Sydney as part of an APEC week stunt.
The team from the satirical TV program The Chaser's War on Everything were in a convoy of three cars and two motorbikes which was reportedly ushered through two checkpoints in Sydney's APEC security "red" zone.
The convoy was pulled over in Macquarie Street on a block adjacent to the InterContinental Hotel, where US President George W Bush is a guest during the APEC summit.
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Chaser members said they had dressed up a convoy to look like an official Canadian motorcade, on a day during which a number of official motorcades crossed the city.
Southern Cross Broadcasting reported that the convoy carrying the Chaser team passed "through two checkpoints around the hotel before one of The Chaser pranksters jumped out (dressed) as Osama Bin Laden".
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The Southern Cross Broadcasting report said "security services went crazy when they realised something had gone wrong".
"They very quickly detained these people," a reporter said.
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So is this kind of thing worth it? Did they show up holes in security, or did they show how good the security is? Opinions...
Full story : http://au.news.yahoo.com/070906/2/14czx.html
Thursday September 6, 03:37 PM
Chaser TV team detained over APEC stunt
Eleven crew from the ABC TV comedy show The Chaser have been detained by police after staging a fake motorcade through Sydney as part of an APEC week stunt.
The team from the satirical TV program The Chaser's War on Everything were in a convoy of three cars and two motorbikes which was reportedly ushered through two checkpoints in Sydney's APEC security "red" zone.
The convoy was pulled over in Macquarie Street on a block adjacent to the InterContinental Hotel, where US President George W Bush is a guest during the APEC summit.
...
Chaser members said they had dressed up a convoy to look like an official Canadian motorcade, on a day during which a number of official motorcades crossed the city.
Southern Cross Broadcasting reported that the convoy carrying the Chaser team passed "through two checkpoints around the hotel before one of The Chaser pranksters jumped out (dressed) as Osama Bin Laden".
...
The Southern Cross Broadcasting report said "security services went crazy when they realised something had gone wrong".
"They very quickly detained these people," a reporter said.
...
So is this kind of thing worth it? Did they show up holes in security, or did they show how good the security is? Opinions...
Full story : http://au.news.yahoo.com/070906/2/14czx.html