Tuesday, November 19, 2013

You Think You're Hard Eh?

Scene: Beer Garden of the Waysider Tavern. Time: Mid-evening.
Cast: Assorted onlookers
          Handful of bikies (all aged 45+)
         Hard-looking manual labourer. (aged 55+)
Action: Bikies lounge around suggestively, making the most of the new street cred they have courtesy of the state govt's groovy new anti-bikie laws.

Hard-looking manual labourer glares at them.
Bikies hesitate a little, then muster a return glare. (The manual labourer has the appearance of one who is dreadfully physical, and the look of a one who has very fast reflexes and plenty of match practice when it comes to brawling.)

Hard-looking manual labourer speaks, in a very very thick Irish accent: "So ye think ye're hard ones do ye?"
Total silence from the bikies.
"Ye wooden know wot hard is, boys"
At this stage one of the bikies points out their pedigree, and their "reputation".

Like a crack of lightning the labourer is on his feet, his chair flies backward several feet.
"Ye think ye're as hard as the IRA do ye?"
"Do ye even know what is the IRA?"
"Well, are ye hard like ye sayz? I don't think ye're hard, I think ye're so soft I could clean the lotta ye up, on me own!"

This assertation is not contested by the bikies, who've already taken a collective few paces backward.

None of the bikies dare meet the Irishman's gaze.

A few minutes later the labourer is back to softly chatting with his friends, the bikies have slunk off with tails firmly between legs, and Mine Host is busy burning the security camera file to disc, for later viewing pleasure.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Youtube it. Please.

Steve at the Pub said...

I've youtubed a lot of stuff from the security cameras.
This won't be one of them. Visually it isn't much, especially to the outsider.

If you've ever seen CCTV footage, you'd know that even the most "rolled gold" prosecution grade evidence doesn't look much.

RebeccaH said...

I don't know what bikies in Australia are like, but I do know that bikers in the U.S. are mostly middle or working class guys who just like motorcycles and don't want any trouble ... even when they travel in packs. They like to wear leather and look tough, though, because that impresses the cocktail waitresses.

Steve at the Pub said...

Bikies vary RebeccaH.

In this case they are members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. (OMCG)

This is being posted on because OMCG's are topical in this state at the moment.

They are now banned as criminal organisations in this state. Wearing club colours (eg, those of Hell's Angels, Commancheros, Mongols & others) is prohibited or something. It is an offence for me to serve anybody wearing the colours of an outlaw motorcycle gang, or for anybody to associate with a member of a said gang.

There is a fair bit of legislative heat on them at the moment. They've asked for it.

We'll see if the high court strikes down the laws, but until then, they stand.