No-one suspects Canadia at APEC!
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For those of us not in Sydney / Australia, The Chasers are a bunch of guys who pull rather humorous public pranks and create rather embarrasing moments for serious events, all for the lulz generated once it is aired on their TV show.
Also, apparently, my workmate's boyfriend's friends were the ones hired to transport the Chasers in their vehicles, and are now also being "detained" (read: arrested) for further questioning for being invloved. It's a shame his name is Muhammed. Rather funny indeed.
So, they've basically proven that despite all the countless precautions and traffic re-directs in the centre of Sydney, and the countless millions spent on anti-terrorism measures, it all amounts to nothing when a bunch of clowns can get into restricted zones anyway.
Alternatively: Tell us about pranks you've pulled that have generated equally entertaining results!
Eleven members of The Chaser team have been detained after conducting a fake motorcade through the city this morning.
Chas Licciardello and Chaser executive producer Julian Morrow are in custody at Surry Hills police station, along with program colleagues, after being arrested for breaching the APEC restricted zone...
...It is believed police pulled the vehicles over near the corner of Bridge and Macquarie streets, after Licciardello emerged from one of the cars dressed as Osama Bin Laden....
...The Chaser convoy had been dressed up to look like an official Canadian motorcade, with Canadian flags attached to the cars and "Canada'' signs visible in the front windscreen.
"No particular reason we chose Canada," said Taylor. "We just thought they'd be a country who the cops wouldn't scrutinise too closely, and who feasibly would only have three cars in their motorcade - as opposed to the 20 or so gas guzzlers that Bush has brought with him..."
...The arrests had been made using new powers available under the APEC Act, he said...
For those of us not in Sydney / Australia, The Chasers are a bunch of guys who pull rather humorous public pranks and create rather embarrasing moments for serious events, all for the lulz generated once it is aired on their TV show.
Also, apparently, my workmate's boyfriend's friends were the ones hired to transport the Chasers in their vehicles, and are now also being "detained" (read: arrested) for further questioning for being invloved. It's a shame his name is Muhammed. Rather funny indeed.
So, they've basically proven that despite all the countless precautions and traffic re-directs in the centre of Sydney, and the countless millions spent on anti-terrorism measures, it all amounts to nothing when a bunch of clowns can get into restricted zones anyway.
Alternatively: Tell us about pranks you've pulled that have generated equally entertaining results!
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improv everywhere
the difference is ours are funny and harmless and yours are retarded
hmm
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
It's just that this season has been a little dry.
Just dress up as a Canadian police officer, and you'll be free to travel through any parts of Sydney.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Link me to some of this supposedly funny stuff for my viewing pleasure.
yes:
one is funny
the other is not
what a delightful idea
British humour.
Also, while individual skits or segments sometimes miss the mark, overall each show is pretty high quality. Plus, its like the only Australian show like this. Im sure America is bursting at the seams with similar shows, but we're not. Sorry we suck and only have 20 million people and 5 tv channels.
huh?
No, but there was a point to this stunt. They wanted to see how far they could get, and they got within 10 metres of the hotel Bush was staying in. The Aust. Govt. spent 140 million dollars on the security aspect of APEC, and a bunch of dudes just made that all amount to nothing. There are snipers on the buildings surrounding Bridge St. Snipers. In Sydney.
The Chasers shouldn't be blamed for this, because they shouldn't have been able to get past the first security checkpoint to start with.
How embarrassing.
We have a new Naomi Robson.
But seriousely, prime is non-stop attacking the successful channels and shit.
They are on par with those 3 hour long danoz direct advertisements, being played all day.
Sure, occaisionally you'll see some hot chicks, but oh god does it get boring.
@Oden: Don't you live in Australia?
Its a free TV channel
I live in Canberra
Also, TEN, WIN9, ABC, SBS, and PRIME7
Yeah that's why I said Canberra. But, SBS is pretty good sometimes, and atleast their World News isn't the one-sided, biased, uninformative crap that the main channels spew out.
we have TVS in Sydney.
I think you need to live next door to wherever it is broadcast to receive any sort of proper reception.
SBS's news is like "30 thousand people died today when an arab man, with both his eyes and his sons eyes carved out, detonated himself, also in today's news, 57 african towns starved, almost to death, they were then set upon by ravaging alligators."
"Then pissed on by passing Israeli forces."
They do have great cartoons though.
EDIT: Tweaked, do you live in ACT?
TT and ACA are pretty retarded.
APEC is pretty stupid.
I'm pretty hungry right now guys.
seriously if i hadnt heard about it i wouldnt have any idea that anything was going on
As for chaser's, this was one of the most brilliant stunts ever. The message being, that with the proper preparation and planning, anyone can get though APEC security. Shit, don't the checkpoints have a list of countries that are actually attending? Canada isn't even part of APEC.
The bit where they were blocking people from coming off the escalators in the video in the first post. If somebody did that to me when I was on my way home from work or something, I would be quite annoyed.
Edit: I mean I understand they were trying to make a point about blindly following authority or whatever and it was pretty funny when the security guard just let him carry on, but if I was one of the people being inconvenienced by it, it would be less amusing.