just another afternoon in sunny Adelaide
This just happened in one of the busiest locations in the Adelaide CBD in the middle of a weekday afternoon: link. It sounds like two groups of Sudanese youths had a very serious fight with knives. This is literally 100 metres from where I work, and in fact I walked through the front part of the newsagency in question this afternoon – on Grenfell Street, right here:
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From an eyewitness (exclusive! who says you don’t get real news on blogs):
I just went downstairs to pick up my dry cleaning, only to be confronted with a 14 year old african boy who had been stabbed in the chest by another guy, lying on the ground COVERED in blood, blood in pools all around him, blood ALL OVER the door of the newsagent, him moaning, I swear he is going to die. Then another guy comes around the corner and he is also covered in blood and has been stabbed in the stomach.
Holy sh1t it was the scariest thing ever, the police rocked up, i was choking from the pepper spray. But they caught the guy who did it. That’s a bit of drama for a wed arvo.
And the most scary thing is that I was going down to get my drycleaning from the newsagent and the brawl and stabbing happened in there about 20 seconds before I got there – can you imagine??
Looking out my window now traffic is stationary for about a kilometre across the Adelaide CBD.
No doubt Premier Rann and Mr Atkinson will use this as a pretext to introduce London-style “stop and search” laws as part of the Global War on Knives.
I love your pessimism.
Well, hardly a day goes by without the state government announcing that we have the “world’s toughest laws” about something or other. “World’s toughest jaywalking laws”… “world’s toughest dog registration laws”… “world’s toughest anti-young hoodlum laws”…
So this should be right up their alley.
And now we have the world’s toughest sniffer dogs on the job to clean up Gouger St and Hindley St.
They wont need to introduce ‘stop and search’ laws as part of their war on knives – the police can have reasonable cause to suspect once a sniffer dog sits next to someone on whom they detect the scent of drugs! (Don’t all dope fiends carry knives? or is it that all knife carrying hoodlums are dope fiends?)
Either way …
Rann can also add Australia’s toughest anti bikie legislation (oh, I mean ‘anti organised crime legislation’, because it’s not bikie legislation right?)
Scent of drugs? Anyone who satisfies one of these two criteria is probably carrying numerous knives:
1. under the age of 40
2. not a cop
As for ‘anti-organised crime’ legislation, I think you should call that ‘anti-anyone they put on The List’ legislation.