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MELBOURNE'S Footy Buskers face an uncertain future after police asked the pair to leave their regular position outside the stadium on Thursday night.
Buskers David Hedges and Anthony Simmons were approached by stadium security staff at Docklands during the Richmond v Collingwood game, and were told to clear the area.
Police were called in after the pair, who have played on the bridge regularly for about six years, refused security staff requests to leave.
Crowds of fans hurled abuse at police as they took the buskers' details, with many booing the police and telling them to leave them alone.
The buskers, who have city council permits, refused requests to move from the middle of the bridge and said they would stand their ground.
LEGENDARY footy hard man Carl Ditterich won many fights on the football field, but faces a new battle he fears he won't win.
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Lawyers for the former St Kilda and Melbourne star claim Goulburn-Murray Water officials knowingly took advantage of his ailing father-in-law by signing him up to a costly regional pipeline.
Bruce Currie, now 81, had just had surgery for cancer of the stomach and oesophagus, and was on morphine, when he signed the document in September 2000 without legal representation, according to court documents.
Now the water company wants the money and is threatening Supreme Court action to seize the land.
saintspremiers wrote:Well Collo can now go get farked as far as I'm concerned.
The d!ckhead deserves all the bad Karma in the world as far as I'm concerned.
Impedeing pedestrians my farking arsehole!
Big deal, two guys playing their horns.
Sounds like Collo needs to get his hand of his horn.
yep......
also reckon that i could get the shadows father in law out of that contract.......must be a meeting of the minds on any contract for it to be enforceable.......no way that could be the case if he was high on morphine at the time of signing....
.everybody still loves lenny....and we always will
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if they are asked to leave i hope that old man who plays the same song over and over on his guitar was.
i know the whole song, and its bloody depressing after we lose!
"Another storied win in Robert Harvey's career. They say he is the embodiment of their motto of strength through loyalty, and on the day he became just the tenth man to play 350 league games the saints reward him with a seemingly impossible victory."
saintdooley wrote:if they are asked to leave i hope that old man who plays the same song over and over on his guitar was.
i know the whole song, and its bloody depressing after we lose!
saintdooley wrote:if they are asked to leave i hope that old man who plays the same song over and over on his guitar was.
i know the whole song, and its bloody depressing after we lose!
saintdooley wrote:if they are asked to leave i hope that old man who plays the same song over and over on his guitar was.
i know the whole song, and its bloody depressing after we lose!
Doesn't Docklands try this with the footy buskers at some stage every year?
Some well meaning (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt) employee gets proactive, security asks them to leave, they say no, security calls the cops, the cops get booed, and nothing changes.
"Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits"
- Henry Ford
I'm pretty sure that at least one of them is a Saints fan, have seen him sitting in front of me on L1 with his Saints gear on during the match and spoken briefly with him - can't remember which one though.
They do read this site though.
I've never seen them impede the pedestrian traffic and think they add value to the atmosphere.
Says they were within their rights to be there as they had the appropriate council permit.
So what's the agenda behind it?
I am failing to see how removing them actually benefits TD management...quality buskers like these guys make it a more festive event.
I bet the schmuck who asked the security then the coppers to move them on didn't go and ask them to move on first.
saintspremiers wrote:Well Collo can now go get farked as far as I'm concerned.
The d!ckhead deserves all the bad Karma in the world as far as I'm concerned.
Impedeing pedestrians my farking arsehole!
Big deal, two guys playing their horns.
Sounds like Collo needs to get his hand of his horn.
I'm thinking that Collo has tried everything he possibly could to get his grubby paws on part of the take from the buskers. When that failed he had them removed !!
If they get rid of the buskers, all you'll be able to hear is 'Record! Get your record' on the long trudge to the Dome. Maybe that's what they're after, but I'm behind the hobos 100%. It's part of a great modern footy tradition, along with smuggling Nando's and not paying for train tickets.
"They did have their permits and they were within their rights to be there," Ms Fengler said.
If they were legally there, why were they moved on at all?
You do what the nice policeman asks you, or he takes you to some place and gives you a strip-search and hey presto..... he finds a plastic bag of white powder up your jacksii.
Funny,
The adult footy buskers on the bridge were asked to move on (still have a copy of their free cd handed out on that fateful Melbourne v Stkilda finals game) YET, over the other side I think its Lonsdale St or Latrobe St end - two school aged children doing the exact same thing remained - wonder if they are Collo's nephew and son? - oops sorry - grandsons perhaps would be more like it.
If everyone speeds, why haven't you been overtaken?
