This is getting ridiculous - fined for visiting a remote beach? WTF? Do the police really have nothing better to do? Shouldn't they be staying home to avoid spreading the virus rather than travelling in groups to remote areas just to be pricks?

Coronavirus restrictions: Group of men caught eating pizza in car filmed arguing with police

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/coronavirus-restrictions-group-of-men-caught-eating-pizza-in-car-filmed-arguing-with-police/news-story/1a8735366531796351882c69e3d7e625?fbclid=IwAR1i9dyuSyWM-COJafgtyezc1sErZzELtRe2tEp6dLXU0Y_OGmYj6s-xPyQ

A group of men who were allegedly caught sitting in their car eating pizza over the weekend have been filmed in a fiery exchange with police.

A group of men have been caught out by new coronavirus restrictions after police saw them sitting in a car together eating pizza over the weekend.

The group of four was caught in Condell Park in southwest Sydney on Saturday afternoon when they were spotted by police, who moved in to break up the gathering.

But the incident escalated as more than 10 officers attended the scene, and one of the men was handcuffed and began arguing with officers.

“Look at what youse have done to me, and for what?” one of the men — handcuffed and sitting on a driveway — yelled at police during the exchange, which was filmed and posted online.

Police across the country cracked down on Aussies flouting social distancing restrictions over the Easter long weekend, and issued on-the-spot fines to more than 100 people in NSW alone on Saturday.

“We’re sitting down eating and the f***ing dogs came for no reason,” one of the men says during the lengthy exchange.

“Under the legislation of this country, I’m entitled to say whatever I want, to whoever I want,” another of the men tells the officers.

Two Milperra men, aged 22 and 26, were fined $1000 each for failing to comply with a public health order, according to a statement from NSW Police. Police also fined an older man at the scene for using offensive language.

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NSW Police issued a total of 111 fines in 24 hours over Good Friday and Easter Saturday.

Recipients of the fines included a Darlinghurst woman, 25, who was spotted by police at Copacabana Beach on the Central Coast on Saturday. She told police she was watching her boyfriend surfing and was fined $1000.

Police also went to the remote village of Sandon in the Northern Rivers region on Saturday after being told a husband and wife had arrived there for the Easter break.

A man, 53, and his wife, 51, told police they’d been in the area for two weeks. But police found they’d only arrived two days beforehand. They were both fined $1000 and told to return home to Lennox Head.

Police said they also had to speak with another couple and their two children, and tell them to return to their home in Petersham in Sydney’s inner west.

Police also had to move on four people who they spotted sitting on a park bench at Maroubra Junction on Saturday afternoon.

After conducting checks they found all four members of the group, three men, 33, 45 and 55, and a woman, 32, had previously been warned about following social distancing orders.

They were told they’d be fined and moved on from the area according to NSW Police.

freediver wrote on Apr 13^th, 2020 at 7:17pm:


not listening to the rules about social distancing. and don't ask what rules, you've been given the answer multiple times in multiple threads already. If you want to play the fool, do it with someone else

and how do you know the photos show plenty of space?

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can you tell how far apart they are on the photo's or not? you can't have it both ways

freediver wrote on Apr 14^th, 2020 at 11:05am:



you do know beach and ocean aren't the same thing, right?

freediver wrote on Apr 14^th, 2020 at 11:05am:



so does everyne else. Are you trying to say that with those photos no one can tell how far apart they are sitting, except for you? are you specciiialll FD?

My local postcode changes within metres of our driveway as our property borders along a boundary road in a green wedge area. 🤔

Us country folk have to drive far to get to shops, unlike most suburbanites within a 5 minute walk to a shop of some sort.

Yeah fun police state, you see how much revenue raising made in each state?
All morning here, just on our busy road we live on, even if it is a green wedge, there’s the police siren going several time’s (unmarked white Prado) and people are being pulled over.

They’re busy little beavers!

Sophia wrote on Apr 14^th, 2020 at 1:37pm:



what alternative do you suggest to get people to listen? we jail them? will that be better?

Sophia wrote on Apr 14^th, 2020 at 2:10pm:



fearful presence?

I've never been scared of police, even in the old days when driving drunk


Sophia wrote on Apr 14^th, 2020 at 2:10pm:

that says more about the number of people not listening or following the rules. More often than not, the cops are giving warnings and moving people on with no fines. It's only when they think you're deliberately ignoring the rules that they fine you. Of course, there will be some cops who go to far, just as there will be those that don't go far enough, all in all, i think they're doing a pretty good job

Sophia wrote on Apr 14^th, 2020 at 2:25pm:


then you get rid of the bad cops,......... not change the rules