APEC security shredded by Comedy TV show prank

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Bkeela
If the Chasers can do this, why aren't the real towel heads getting on with some serious business?

Because like their fellow violent extremists from the White House they haven't got a sense of humour and they take themselves way to seriously. Thus even contemplating this kind of devious infiltration is beyond them...

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
It could have reasonably been perceived as an assassination attempt on a foreign head of state (okay, rear end of state). "Defense of another" justifies homicide in such cases.

oh come on, this is Australia, we don't shoot people for pranks

But if they got close to Bush's security team things might have got serious

[Lancer]

Try running a small boat with dancing girls hidden under a tarp up against the side of the USS Cole, they'll laugh so hard!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Winston
Including me.

But President Bush can take a joke.

He's had so much experience unwittingly being one.

“Mr Prime Minister, thank you for your introduction,” he told Prime Minister John Howard. “Thank you for being such a fine host for the Opec summit .”

As if that was not enough though, Mr Bush also botched the host country's name, referring to Mr Howard's visit to Iraq in 2006 as a thank you to "the Austrian troops there".

Upon finishing his speech, Mr Bush took the wrong way off-stage and, looking slightly perplexed, had to be redirected by Mr Howard to a centre-stage exit.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22378059-29277,00.html

[Winston]

Originally posted by molly bloom
He's had so much experience unwittingly being one.

Yet I'm sure he could easily come up with a better retort than that, if he had to.

Also, if you must quote me, please include the full context. It's really not that hard, molly bloom.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Winston
if you must quote me, please include the full context. It's really not that hard, molly bloom.

Well why don't you cry about it?

[Colon™]

It's entirely appropriate to embarrass the grotesquely tight security measures surrounding such international meetings.

[DinoDoc]

I couldn't have been all that tight, Colon™.

[Straybow]

As if that was not enough though, Mr Bush also botched the host country's name, referring to Mr Howard's visit to Iraq in 2006 as a thank you to "the Austrian troops there".

Austrian, Australian... what's one syllable between friends?

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Winston


Yet I'm sure he could easily come up with a better retort than that, if he had to.

Uh, no... But I'm sure you wouldn't be able to hear it anyway since you have your head stuck so far up his ass...

[Alexander's Horse]

yes we Austrians we were proud to have Bush in Sydney

[Chemical Ollie]

I read that prostitution in Sydney increased by 300% or something during APEC

[DinoDoc]

Well duh. That happens with every convention.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
yes we Austrians we were proud to have Bush in Sidney

Corrected!

[Colon™]

Police question Chasers over second APEC stunt

Posted Fri Sep 7, 2007 5:17pm AEST
Updated 5 hours 54 minutes ago

Three staff and a film crew from ABC TV's program The Chaser's War on Everything have been questioned by police after being involved in second stunt in central Sydney this afternoon.

The three were released by police after being briefly questioned for carrying around black cardboard boxes dressed up as limousines in Sydney.

The Chaser's Craig Reucassel, speaking moments after being released by police, says the event happened well away from the APEC lockdown zone.

"The police basically just detained us and just checked whether we'd breached any laws - which we hadn't - and we're on our way," he said.

"We had boxes, but it'll all be on the Chaser, there was basically no problem."

Chaser member Chris Taylor says all involved knew no laws had been broken.

"We didn't do anything wrong at all, we were very careful to stay within the letter of the law, I think the police realised that so it was fine," he said.

On Thursday, eight other members of the Chaser program and three hire car drivers were charged using new APEC powers for allegedly entering a restricted zone in real cars with Canadian flags

Genius

http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/07/2027186.htm