Application for Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway,
Tecoma
The Built Environment,
Fast Food Outlets,
Anti-Social Behaviour
and Violent Crime
Submitted by KB, B.S., M.Ed.
Introduction
A primary responsibility of government is to ensure the safety of its residents. I strongly
oppose the development because of the increased risk for violent crime due to the presence
of a fast food outlet.
Community Safety and the Planning and Environment Act 1987
Section 4, Clause 4, Number 1c of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 states one of the
objectives of planning in Victoria is:
“to secure a pleasant, efficient and safe working, living and recreational
environment for all Victorians and visitors to Victoria;”
Section 4, Clause 4, Number 2d of the Act states that the objectives of the planning
framework established by this Act include:
“to ensure that the effects on the environment are considered and provide for
explicit consideration of social and economic effects when decisions are made
about the use and development of land;”
Safety is the condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political,
emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consequences of
failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other event which could be considered nondesirable.
The proposed development of a fast food outlet in Tecoma is an intensive use of this site
and as a result, it will jeopardise my physical safety, my family’s physical safety and the
safety of other Tecoma residents.
The Tenant of the Proposed Applicant
Paragraph 143 of one of the applicant’s expert witnesses, Statement of Town Planning
Evidence by Stuart McGurn, states a Patron Management Plan should be required as a
condition on the planning permit. The proposed tenant has existing people policies and
security and safety procedures as part of their Management Development Program (MDP)
according to their website. The proposed tenant’s chief support officer, Jackie McArthur,
states that “extensive safety and security protocols are in place at every restaurant
throughout the entire day”.1
1
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The following research into the effect of place in the built environment and crime statistics
associated with fast food outlets calls into question whether any safety and security
protocols in a patron management plan can ever have any effect on reducing violent crimes
resulting in injuries to persons during aggravated robberies, sexual and physical assaults.
The Built Environment, Fast Food Outlets and Violent Crime
There is research to link the built environment, fast food outlets, behavior, including antisocial behaviour, and violent crime.
In a study entitled, You Are How You Eat and Impatience2, Chen-Bo Zhong and Sanford E.
DeVoe concluded that just looking at the logos of fast-food companies like McDonald's and
others can trigger behavior associated with your expectations from the brand -- namely
immediate gratification, even if that means getting something that isn't as good as what you
could get by waiting. "Fast food seemed to have made people impatient in a manner that
could put their economic interest at risk," concludes the study from the University of Toronto.
Study co-author Chen-Bo Zhong told the Financial Post that "logos or other situational cues
all have the same type of effect of "automaticity" -- triggering regulatory behaviour that is
beyond our control."
The feelings of impatience "will be applied to people's behaviour whether it is in a productive
context or not," Mr. Zhong said. "The activation of these goals will affect people regardless of
whether that is their immediate goal or not, even if it works against their happiness at that
point."
There is more research linking fast food outlets and anti-social behaviour by David Van
Fleet, a professor of management at Arizona State University and co-author of The Violence
Volcano: Reducing the Threat of Workplace Violence3. In that book, Professor Fleet states
“Fast-food chains become easy places to loiter, which can lead to arguments or worse.
When you've got a relatively uneducated, young workforce and piss-poor management, put
them in a high-stress situation—a burger-and-fries environment—and you'll get some
improper conduct."
2
Chen-Bo Zhong and Sanford E. DeVoe. Psychological Science May 2010 vol. 21 no. 5 619-622, first published
on March 19, 2010
3 Van Fleet, David D & Van Fleet, Ella W 2010, The violence volcano : reducing the threat of workplace violence,
IAP, Information Age Pub, Charlotte, NC
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In Eric Schlosser’s book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal4,
Schlosser draws upon elements of routine activities theory to explain why fast food outlets
are such common targets for robbery. He states that fast food outlets are now more
attractive to armed robbers than convenience stores, gas stations, or banks because fast
food outlets still do almost all of their business in cash holding thousands of dollars on site
daily and their location near intersections facilitate a speedy getaway.
John Eck is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches
graduate courses in research methods, police effectiveness, crime policy, and crime
prevention. In Chapter 7 entitled Preventing Crime at Places in his book, Crime and Place:
Crime Prevention Studies5, Professor Eck explores why places are so important to crime.
Places have received relatively little attention in crime policy so it is important to
define "place." A place is a very small area reserved for a narrow range of
functions, often controlled by a single owner, and separated from the
surrounding area. By small we mean that a location is smaller than a
neighborhood or community. Examples of places include stores, homes,
apartment buildings, street corners, subway stations, and airports.
Additional evidence for crime concentration at places has been found for
specific types of crime. Crow and Bull (1975) noted over 20 years ago that most
convenience stores have no or few robberies, but a few have many robberies.
In England and Canada a growing body of research has revealed that in high
burglary neighborhoods most residences have no burglaries, but a few
residences suffer repeated burglaries (Forrester et. al. 1988; Forrester et. al.
1990; Polvi et. al. 1990; Farrell 1995).
Among drinking establishments, a few bars have most tavern-related violence
(Sherman, Schmidt, and Velke 1992).
Ten percent of the fast food restaurants in San Antonio, Texas account for one
third of the property crimes at such restaurants (Spelman 1995b).
These findings suggest that something about a few places facilitates crimes and
something about most places prevents crimes.
The relevance of the above research into place on this planning application is that this
application represents a significant change to this “place”. There is no precedent in Tecoma
for the intensity of this type of development. A potential consequence of this intensive
development is to create a higher risk “place” as no other late night or all night venue exists
in Tecoma and this development could become a place of violent crimes as a result.
4
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Harper Perennial; First
Harper Perennial Edition (July 5, 2005)
5
John Eck. Crime and Place: Crime Prevention Studies (December 1995) Willow Tree Press
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Brantingham and Brantingham (1982)6 studied the association between commercial
burglaries per store on blocks and the presence of five types of "commercial landmarks" fast food restaurants, traditional restaurants, supermarkets, department stores, and pubs. He
found that fast food restaurants had commercial burglary rates 2 to 2.5 times higher than the
non landmark average (Brantingham and Brantingham, 1982).
Violent Crime Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics keeps data on the number of crimes committed against
physical structures such as burglary, theft, arson etc in a category called cafe/restaurants,
not crimes against people physically. And there is no differentiation between restaurants
and fast food outlets in those statistics. The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not have
data on violent crimes committed within fast food outlets in Australia.
The most detailed statistical data on violent crimes against people is available from the US
Bureau of Labor Statistics7, which estimates that the rate of assaults at limited-service
restaurants (or fast food outlets) is more than twice as high as at full-service restaurants.
Full-service restaurants had 0.8 assaults per 10,000 employees in 2009; and fast-food
outlets had 1.8 assaults per 10,000 employees, which is more than double. Some 109
worker homicides at limited-service restaurants (or fast food outlets) were reported from
2003 through to 2006, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. The number rose from 24
homicides in 2005 to 28 in 2006, a 17% increase.
Andrea Finney is a Senior Research Officer in the UK Home Office Research, Development
and Statistics Directorate's Measuring and Analysing Crime Programme. In her article,
Violence in the night-time economy: key findings from the research, Ms. Finney includes
fast-food outlets as part of the night-time economy, where violence has increased in recent
years and “presents a significant public health, criminal justice and urban management
problem. Many people are injured in such violence, a significant minority of whom are
permanently disfigured.”8
6
Brantingham, P.L. and P.J. Brantingham (1982). "Mobility, Notoriety and Crime: A Study of Crime Patterns in
Urban Nodal Points." Journal of Environmental System 11:89-99.
7 Assaults and Violent Acts in the Private Retail Trade Sector, 2003—2008, Joyce Northwood, Bureau of Labor
Statistics Originally Posted: December 7, 2011, http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/sh20111202ar01p1.htm
8 Violence in the night-time economy: key findings from the research, Andrea Finney, 2004, UK Home Office
Research, Development and Statistics Directorate,
http://www.popcenter.org/problems/assaultsinbars/pdfs/finney_2004.pdf
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Incidents of Crime in Australia at the Proposed Tenant’s Premises
From February 2009 to July 2012, there were 160+ instances of aggravated robbery, sexual
assaults and physical assaults and criminal activity committed at the proposed tenant’s fast
food outlets in Australia. These documented instances of violent crimes are reported and
published by Crime Stoppers reliable newspapers, such as The Australian, The Herald Sun,
The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, Australian Associated Press, The Leader
Newspapers and others.
The majority of these violent crimes at McDonalds in Australia occurred after 11 p.m. On 31
January 2012, McDonald’s Communications Spokeswoman Skye Oxenham told Nicole
Cridland of the Stonnington Leader that “24-hour trade was standard for the McDonalds
chain.”9
It is important to hear the severity of these crimes to understand the threat to safety with this
proposed development because of its intensive use of the place. These are the 160
instances of aggravated robbery, sexual assaults and physical assaults and other criminal
activity committed at the proposed tenant of the development application’s fast food outlets
in Australia from February 2009 to July 2012.
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30 of these violent crimes were beatings
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4 of these violent crimes were stabbings
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2 of these incidents were shootings, one of which was fatal
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11 of these crimes were sexual assaults
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5 of these crimes were drug related crimes
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25 of these violent crimes were armed robberies
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2 of these incidents was arson
The information above was based on the original 94 instances. An analysis of the 160+
events is:
9
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29 were armed robberies and 6 were attempted robberies
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1 was an attempted murder
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1 was an explosive device
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54 were physical assaults
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5 were shootings
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Date of Article
News Report Overview/Highlights
Media Agency/Website
Address
Original
Reporter
17 February
2009 – New
since
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Would you like fries with your fillet-o-fists?
http://www.warwickdailyn
Caitlyn Gribbin
DRUNKEN fools who offer late-night fast food cravers “Big Smacks” with their
side of fries are risking lives and destroying property, a concerned resident
said.
ews.com.au/story/2009/0
| 17th
2/17/mcdonalds-fight/
February 2009
At weekends they scale a 5m-tall sign, initiate brawls and wake a sleeping
neighbourhood with obscene language and Albion Street neighbour and
vandalism victim Arthur Page has had enough.
12:00 AM
The Warwick
Daily News
“I've seen them try and climb that sign - it's suicidal. Girls use language that
would shock a bullock driver, it's the foulest I've ever heard in my life,” Mr Page
said.
His comments came in response to a fight which broke out on Sunday morning
after which two people were issued with notices to appear in Warwick
Magistrates Court and two others arrested.
“My neighbour's fence was smashed and I could hear the fight going on. The
language coming from over there was shocking; I swear but they made me
look like an angel,” Mr Page said.
“You can nearly bet your life on it that we see this sort of stuff every weekend.
Friday and Saturday nights are as bad as each other with people who are full
of grog and bad manners. I honestly don't know when it's going to finish.”
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A Warwick Total Security Service security guard, who often works at
McDonald's but did not want to be identified, agreed with Mr Page.
“I've broken up quite a few fights and conflicts from other venues can often rise
up again when they meet at McDonald's,” the man said.
“A lot of the security guards aren't interested in doing the work because of the
trouble that's always caused there. We work 2.30-3.30am and are there for the
peak of it.”
He said he was concerned for the safety of young staff members who were
“copping abuse”.
“I feel for those young kids who have to put up with drunks who get very
impatient. I also think this is a shame for visitors who have to witness all of this
and won't come back to Warwick.”
McDonald's Warwick franchisee Trevor Burton conceded there was a problem
and said he would prefer to close on Friday and Saturday nights.
“I'd rather close my doors but McDonald's restaurants in 130 countries are
rolling out 24-hour initiatives and the Warwick store is part of that,” Mr Burton
said.
“I don't trade for drunks. We are open 168 hours a week and for over 160 of
those hours people are well behaved. I'm not responsible for the way society is
going.”
Mr Burton said an upgrade of the restaurant's security was expected to be
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completed at the end of the month.
“Pedestrians will order from a path on the Percy Street side and this will ensure
people and vehicles won't mix at all. I don't know if it will alleviate drunk people
from having fights though.”
He said the commotion was caused by drunken youths who needed to cure the
late-night munchies.
“They're hungry drunks and if they're not going to cause it at McDonald's they
will somewhere else,” he said.
Mr Burton stressed the control needed to come from licensed premises which
he said continued to serve alcohol to unruly people.
“I'd like to see people stopped being served alcohol when they hit (a blood
alcohol reading of) .05,” he said.
Warwick Police officer-in-charge Senior Sergeant Mike Curtin said the violence
at McDonald's had significantly increased since 24-hour service began.
“There has been a marked increase in calls for police resources in that area
with most of it being anti-social behaviour including fighting, noise and
disturbing the peace,” Snr Sgt Curtin said.
“It's definitely a problem. There are also pedestrian safety issues and Warwick
Police have concerns for persons who appear to be using the drive-through
facility.”
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Snr Sgt Curtin said he planned to work with the community to ensure the
numbers of incidents at the restaurant decreased.
2 March 2009 –
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Not lovin' McDonald's carpark brawls
http://www.warwickdailyn
WARWICK police received numerous complaints from neighbours about noise,
bad language and poor behaviour in the McDonald's car park between 1am
and 3am Saturday.
ews.com.au/story/2009/0
Senior Constable Jeremy Lambert said there were 30 to 50 people in the car
park when they arrived.
Warwick Daily
News
3/02/not-lovinmcdonalds-carparkbrawls/
“No reports of assaults were made to police,” Sen.Const. Lambert said.
“We continue to be concerned about the behaviour of some patrons at
McDoanld's and about some customers hanging around.
Police returned to McDonald's later and all people were moved on by 3am.
There was no trouble on Saturday night.
4 March 2009 –
New since
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Man abuses McDonald's staff
A MISTAKE with his McDonalds order sent a man berserk on Monday night,
with the 22-year-old assaulting a female staff member at the Stanthorpe
restaurant.
http://www.warwickdailyn
ews.com.au/story/2009/0
3/04/man-abusesmcdonalds-staff/
The Warwick
Daily News
Tori Mainey |
4th March
2009 8:37 AM
The man entered the drive-through about 7pm and when he received the
wrong order he threw his fries in the woman's face and proceeded to verbally
abuse her.
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Stanthorpe Police Senior Sergeant Mark Ireland said the man was riding in the
passenger side of the vehicle but got out to confront the staff member.
“He came in through the doorway and started swearing in an unconscionable
manner and grabbed her by the wrists,” Snr Sgt Ireland said.
Snr Sgt Ireland said in the course of leaving the man attempted to urinate on
the front window near the doorway he was exiting.
“He also spat on the outside window prior to jumping in his car.”
The driver of the car re-entered the restaurant to apologise before the pair left.
“Police were called about a male person who was apparently acting in a very
disorderly manner but by the time crews had arrived the vehicle had left.”
Snr Sgt Ireland said after they made a number of inquiries police located the
two men on High Street, the main route out of town.
“The one man was charged with creating a public nuisance and one count of
assault,” he said.
He is due to appear in Stanthorpe Magistrates Court on April 21.
7 March 2009
New since
submission
Comets sacked and in court over assault
THE Central Queensland Comets rugby league club has dumped two
emerging players after police alleged they were involved in the assault of a
Rockhampton man who was left with brain damage.
http://www.gladstoneobs
erver.com.au/story/2009/
03/07/comets-sackedand-in-court-overassault/
The Observer
Former North Queensland Cowboys contracted five-eighth Nathan Barraclough
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yesterday pleaded guilty in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to assault
occasioning bodily harm.
At the same time, the club announced Barraclough's contract had been torn up
and it had also withdrawn intentions to sign trial winger Russell Webber, 19.
Former Melbourne Storm contracted centre Webber, who is yet to appear in
court, is charged with grievous bodily harm after an assault on February 7 that
left an 18-year-old man in hospital.
The revelations came as the Comets prepared to kick off 2009 at last night's
official season launch at the Rockhampton Leagues Club.
Before Barraclough appeared in court, Comets executive officer Scott Minto
released this statement to local media:
“Over the past two weeks the management of the CQ Comets RLFC have
released player Nathan Barraclough from his contract effective immediately
and withdrawn intentions to sign trial winger Russell Webber due to a major
breach in the clubs Code of Conduct.
“We want to make it clear that we will not tolerate players' behaviour that brings
the integrity of our club in to question.
“No further comment will be available at this time.”
The Comets first grade squad is currently on a club-imposed total alcohol ban,
believed to have stemmed from last month's assault.
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Police prosecutor Constable Darryl Cox yesterday told a court the victim was
treated for six capillary bleeds on the brain, one large hematoma to the rear of
the brain and 12 stitches to his cut lip.
Barraclough had admitted he was in the south Rockhampton McDonald's drive
thru at 2.30am the day of the assault.
Constable Cox said Barraclough was in a black Mitsubishi Lancer with Webber
and three other men when the 18-year-old was part of a group that walked to
the front of the queue.
Barraclough got out of the car and told the group to get to the back of the line.
Minutes later Barraclough said he heard what sounded like rocks being thrown
at the vehicle. He again got out of the car and ran to George Lane, behind
McDonald's, but the group had disappeared.
Barraclough and the others drove down the laneway searching for the group
and found them near the corner of Fitzroy Street.
Barraclough chased the teenager on foot and caught him about 100 metres
from the corner of Archer and Murray streets.
He grabbed the teen by the shoulder and swung him around.
The complainant swung a punch at Barraclough, who returned with a right
punch to the side of his face, knocking the victim to the ground.
The teenager yelled for Barraclough to get off but the footballer punched him
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again in the face.
Barraclough was pushed away but another man, who was in the vehicle, ran
up and assaulted the teenager further.
Webber allegedly joined in and punched the 18-year-old in the face before
Barraclough told them to stop and pushed his fellow Comets team-mate off.
The teenager was rushed to Rockhampton Hospital but Barraclough and the
others had already fled the scene.
The assault was reported to police on February 20, the day before Barraclough
was stood down from pulling on a Comets jersey for the trial match against the
Gold Coast Titans.
Police yesterday said the victim hadn't been able to return to work as an
apprentice electrician since the assault and didn't know when he would be able
to work again. Magistrate John McGrath fined Barraclough $500 and also
ordered he pay $500 in compensation to the victim.
Webber will appear in court at a later date.
16 March 2009
New since
submission
Police busy on the Fraser Coast
AN assault took place in the carpark of Hervey Bay's McDonald's outlet about
12.45am yesterday, police say.
http://www.frasercoastch
ronicle.com.au/story/200
9/03/16/police-busy-onthe-Fraser-Coast/
Fraser Coast
Chronicle
A man was taken to Hervey Bay Hospital after the incident. The assault may
have been captured on CCTV. Police are investigating.
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17 March 2009
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Submission
According to facts tendered in another case, a well-intoxicated man was driving
towards Tweed Heads in the early hours of February 2.
http://www.mydailynews.
com.au/story/2009/03/17
/grass-eater-fined-1000/
Police stopped car salesman Scott Callaghan while exiting the Tweed Heads
South McDonald's at 5am and he failed a breath test.
Tweed Daily
News
James Perkins
| 17th March
2009 9:24 AM
The Kingscliff man blew .160 per cent blood alcohol concentration at the
Tweed Heads Police Station.
He was disqualified from driving for 18 months and fined $1500 with $73 in
court costs.
17 March 2009
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submission
Early on Sunday morning, a Ford Falcon sedan parked at McDonald's was hit
with a blunt weapon on the front passenger side, breaking the left indicator and
denting the side panel.
http://www.themorningbu
lletin.com.au/story/2009/
03/17/break-ins-hityeppoon/
Rockhampton
Morning
Bulletin
http://www.newsmail.com.au/story/2009/0
3/24/jail-cbd-violenceheard/
News Mail
Senior Sergeant Barclay said police were looking at closed circuit security
footage to try to track down the offender.
24 March 2009
New since
submission
Jail for CBD violence heard
ONE of the teens charged with the robbery of a dead man in the Bundaberg
CBD was yesterday handed a prison sentence for another incident of violence
in the CBD.
Albert Ambertel pleaded guilty to public nuisance for his involvement in a latenight fracas outside the Targo Street McDonald's on the Australia Day
weekend.
He was on parole for the robbery of David Pacy, who lay dying on
Maryborough Street in August 2007.
Magistrate Jennifer Batts sentenced him to one month in jail, wholly
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8 April 2009
suspended.
Bikies 'selling cocaine at McDonalds'
Two alleged Rebels bikies arrested at gunpoint in an undercover police
operation at a McDonald's car park in Sydney were attempting to sell more
than half a kilogram of cocaine, a court has been told.
http://www.watoday.com.
au/national/bikies-sellingcocaine-at-mcdonalds20090408a0h7.html#ixzz21yQTsk1
P
Staff Writers
From WA
Today
9 April 2009
One of them was also trying to sell a similar quantity of the amphetamine drug
known as speed, police allege.
Three men with alleged links to the Rebels and Comancheros bikie gangs have
been charged after police raided eight NSW properties and arrested six people
on Tuesday following a covert four-month police operation.
Jason Anevski, 23, appeared in Newtown Local Court on Wednesday charged
with supplying a commercial amount of cocaine.
Wearing a cream-hooded jacket, he nodded to supporters at the back of the
court as he appeared in the dock and did not apply for bail, which was formally
refused.
Daniel James Isbester, 22, chose not to appear in the same court.
Police allege Isbester attempted to sell 521 grams of methamphetamine and
478 grams of cocaine when he was arrested.
The pair were arrested in the car park of a McDonald's restaurant at St Peters
in Sydney's inner west about 3pm (AEST) on Tuesday.
Isbester has been charged with two counts of supplying a commercial quantity
of speed and cocaine, and knowingly dealing in the proceeds of crime, namely
$4,919.65, and attempting to conceal them.
Isbester did not apply for bail and it was formally refused by Magistrate Bernard
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Kennedy.
Both men were remanded in custody to appear at Sydney's Central Local Court
on April 14.
A third man, aged 37 and allegedly a Comanchero gang member, was arrested
at Hurstville in Sydney's south and charged with supplying a commercial
quantity of cocaine.
8 June 2009
He was due to appear in Sutherland Local Court on Wednesday.
Photographer punched in Sydney media attack
A MAN has been arrested after a TV cameraman was hospitalised and a
photographer was allegedly punched in the face in an assault on Sydney
media crews today.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/photographerpunched-in-sydneymedia-ttack/storyfn3dxity-1225729708689
Representatives from The Daily Telegraph, Channel 9, 10 and 7 were allegedly
set upon in an unprovoked attack in the car park separating KFC and
McDonalds in Five Dock shortly before 2am.
by: By Amy
Dale
From: The
Australian
June 08, 2009
8:10AM
The Daily Telegraph reports the two men, believed to be aged in their twenties,
allegedly walked into the car park through a driveway and shouted obscenities,
including racial taunts, before being asked to stop.
It was then they allegedly attacked, knocking Daily Telegraph photographer Bill
Hearne to the ground with a punch to the mouth.
17 June 2009
A third man allegedly jumped out of a car stopped at the McDonalds drivethrough bay to join in the assault.
A MAN is due to appear in court today charged over an eight-hour armed
siege at a McDonald's restaurant on the NSW mid-north coast.
More than 20 people were in the restaurant at a Port Macquarie service centre
at about 8am (AEST) yesterday during the breakfast rush period when an
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Telegraph
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armed man entered and began firing shots into the air.
Diners and staff fled the service centre, on the corner of the Oxley and Pacific
highways. Police later said about 50 people were evacuated. Negotiators
persuaded the gunman to leave the restaurant shortly before 4.30pm (AEST).
A 49-year-old Sydney man will appear in Port Macquarie Local Court on
various charges including using a weapon to prevent lawful detention, firing a
firearm in or near a public place, possessing a loaded firearm in a public place,
two counts of not keeping a firearm safely, and larceny.
22 July 2009 -
McPest Charged
New Since
A MAN who allegedly attempted to play footsies with unsuspecting
McDonald's customers has been charged with public nuisance.
Submission
http://www.cairns.com.au
/article/2009/07/22/5332
1_local-news.html
Wednesday,
July 22, 2009
© The Cairns
Post
A 41-year-old Innisfail man will face two charges of public nuisance after police
were twice called to McDonald’s at Innisfail this week.
On Saturday, police received a complaint regarding a man’s behaviour. Police
say the man appeared to be touching people from behind and placing his foot
between their legs.
However, the man had left prior to police arrival on Saturday.
The man returned to the restaurant today. Police were again called and
charged him with two offences of public nuisance.
24 July 2009 -
The man gave police an unacceptable reason for his behaviour and his bail
conditions were set to ensure he did not attend the restaurant.
Man's ear bitten off outside McDonald's
New since
West Australian police are seeking witnesses to a fight outside a fast food
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://news.theage.com.a
u/breaking-newsnational/mans-ear-bitten-
The Age
Page 18 of 110
submission
outlet in which a man's ear was bitten off.
off-outside-mcdonalds20090724-dvlj.html
A 30-year-old man from Kalgoorlie was involved in an altercation with a 29year-old man outside a McDonald's restaurant in Mirrabooka, in Perth's east,
about 4.20am (WST) last Saturday, police spokesman Graham Clifford said.
"During the incident a 30-year-old man from Kalgoorlie had a large portion of
his right ear bitten off," Sgt Clifford said.
The 29-year-old man from Noranda, in Perth's eastern suburbs, has been
charged with grievous bodily harm.
Doctors operated on the victim to reattach his ear but the attempt was
unsuccessful and he will undergo plastic surgery.
Sgt Clifford said there may have been witnesses to the incident.
"Police believe that an independent vehicle, and possibly a further vehicle
which may have been a taxi, may have witnessed what happened on that
morning," he said.
"Further information is also required about a male on foot, who was not
involved in the incident, but who may have witnessed something as he was
present outside the McDonald's store at the time."
The 29-year-old man will appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on August 4.
© 2012 AAP
31 July 2009
Conduct Endangering Life - Millers Road - Altona North - 31 July 2009
Crime Stoppers are seeking public assistance in relation to a shooting that
occurred in Altona North around 11.00pm on Friday 31 July, 2009.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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com.au/node/13436
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Stoppers
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Same as above
1 August 2009 New since
submission
Police believe a car driving near the corner of Millers and Blackshaws Roads
fired multiple shots at a car parked in the carpark of McDonalds/KFC.
The car was damaged, but the occupants escaped injury.
Drive-by Shooting at McDonald’s restaurant
A McDonald's restaurant in Melbourne's west had to be locked down last night
after a car was hit by shots in a drive-by shooting.
http://www.theage.com.a
u/national/drivebyshooting-at-mcdonaldsrestaurant-20090801e4uu.html
AAP and The
Age
http://waverleyleader.whereilive.com.au
7 Aug 09 @
09:46am by
Multiple shots were fired from a car in Altona North as it drove past the fastfood chain's parking lot, where another car was parked.
At least two people were in the parked car as the gunfire struck the vehicle
near Millers and Blackshaws roads.
No one was injured.
Witnesses ran into the McDonald's and told staff about the shooting, said store
manager Raphael Delacruz.
"I didn't hear the shots but a few people came in here and told us what
happened," he said.
The store was busy with several customers and had to be locked down, Mr
Delacruz said. "Police were here pretty quick."
The pair targeted in the shooting drove the bullet-riddled car to Altona police
station to report the shooting.
Police are interviewing a number of witnesses and say they are working on
several leads for possible suspects.
7 August 2009
AAP
Mt Waverley family reunited with dog stolen in assault
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 20 of 110
21 September
2009
PETRIFIED pooch survived three days in the back of car after it was stolen in a
violent attack in Glen Waverley. The dog’s owner was assaulted in High Street
Rd after leaving Glen Waverley McDonald’s with his son about 11.45pm on
July 31. The father was headbutted and punched to the ground by four men
after he got out of his car when it was kicked. When his son got out of the car
to come to his aid, one of the men got into the car and drove off, with Mooks
sitting in the back seat.
A violent disturbance between two groups outside McDonalds on William
Street in Perth left a 21 year old male with serious injuries.
5 October 2009
The disturbance occurred around 1.00am on Monday the 21st of September
2009, when the young man observed his friend set upon by two males in an
unprovoked attack. Coming to his aid the 21 year old ran from out of the
convenience store he was working at and attempted to help when he was hit
from behind causing him to fall to the ground where he was repeatedly kicked
in the head until he lost consciousness.
Man steals bike from girl at Prahran McDonalds
POLICE are hunting a man who stole a bicycle from a teenage girl in an inner
Melbourne suburb overnight.
A 14-year-old girl has told police she was outside McDonalds in Malvern Rd,
Prahran, about 11pm when a man parked his car nearby.
/news/story/mt-waverleyfamily-reunited-with-dogstolen-in-assault/
Adrian
Bernecich,
From Waverly
Leader
https://wa.crimestoppers.
com.au/help_solve_crim
e/unsolved_cases/assaul
t/aobh-william-street-0
This link is no longer
active as an unsolved
crime.
Crime
Stoppers
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/man-steals-bikefrom-girl-at-prahranmcdonalds/storyfn3dxiwe1225782774156
From: AAP
October 05,
2009 6:31AM
The man approached the victim and demanded her bicycle.
The girl held onto her bike but the man pulled it from her and swore at her.
He then took the bicycle back to his car, put it in the boot and drove off along
Malvern Rd towards the city.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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20 October
2009
A customer at a fast food restaurant has been hit in the head with a
baseball bat during an armed robbery in Sydney's southwest.
Police say two men held up the Princes Highway McDonalds outlet at St Peters
just before 9pm (AEDT) on Monday, one armed with a machete and the other
with a baseball bat.
Police believe the men left the restaurant with a sum of cash and drove off in a
silver Subaru.
http://www.watoday.com.
au/breaking-newsnational/customer-hitwith-baseball-bat-atmaccas-20091020h5ee.html#ixzz21yimc3a
J
By Staff Writer
From WA
Today
20 October
2009
A 61-year-old man was taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for treatment
of minor injuries after being hit in the head with a baseball bat.
24 October
2009
Attempted Armed Robbery Plenty Road - Kingsbury
Just after midnight on Saturday 24 October 2009, the victim went to
McDonalds, in Plenty Road, Kingsbury.
https://vic.crimestoppers.
com.au/node/13962
Crime
Stoppers
http://www.sunshinecoas
tdaily.com.au/story/2009/
11/09/hungry-customercharged-for-burger/
Anne-Louise
A man approached the victim from behind and had a short conversation with
him. A second man also came up and stood behind the victim.
The victim walked outside and the men followed.
9 November
2009 – New
since
submission
A third man joined the first two men, and it is alleged that the second man held
a knife to the victim's back, grabbing him around the neck and made demands
he hand over some cash.
Hungry customer charged for burger
WOULD you like a wilful damage charge with your burger?
Such was the case for a 19-year-old man who allegedly smashed the front
window of the Kuluin 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant about 4am yesterday.
It was alleged the hungry man walked through the restaurant’s drive-through
and demanded a burger.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Brown | 9th
November
2009 12:00
AM
Sunshine
Coast Daily
Page 22 of 110
However, McDonald’s has a policy of not serving pedestrians in the drivethrough and the man was denied service.
Angry at the refusal the man allegedly smashed the window and decamped, at
which time police were called.
However, the man was apparently determined to get his meal, and allegedly
arrived in his car about 15 minutes later at the drive-through and attempted to
order.
He was recognised by staff.
Police who were on the scene arrested the man, who was later charged with
wilful damage.
He will appear in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court at a date to be fixed.
29 November
2009 – New
since
Submission
Trio faces charges of assault
THREE men charged with the assault of a man outside the Warwick
McDonald’s outlet on June 3 have been committed to stand trial in the District
Court.
James Thomas Bygroves, 18, Matthew Wayne Cole, 19, and Kenneth Gordon
http://www.warwickdailyn
ews.com.au/story/2009/1
1/21/trio-faces-chargesof-assault/
Jeremy Sollars
| 21st
November
2009 2:00 AM
The Warwick
Daily News
Leggatt, 23, are facing one charge each of assault occasioning bodily harm.
A fourth co-accused, Shaun Robert Sergent, 19, was sentenced to eight
months jail but was given immediate parole on September 29 after being
convicted of assault.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 23 of 110
Bygroves, Cole and Leggatt stood side by side in the dock of the Warwick
courthouse yesterday when Magistrate Anne Thacker ordered them to stand
trial on a future date in the District Court in Warwick.
The court is due to visit town again in February next year.
The victim of their alleged assault was temporarily blinded after being kicked
repeatedly in the head.
Yesterday’s committal hearing heard evidence from two witnesses who were
briefly cross-examined by defence lawyers for the three accused.
10 December
2009
Criminal Damage - McDonalds - Elizabeth Street - Melbourne - 10
December 2009
https://vic.crimestoppers.
com.au/node/13488
Crime
Stoppers
http://www.smh.com.au/n
ational/fouryearold-boykissed-on-lips-atmcdonalds-police20091214kqon.html?autostart=1
By Georgina
Robinson
From The
Sydney
Morning
Herald
14 December
2009
On Thursday 10 December, 2009, at about 11.50pm, a man walked into the
McDonalds store in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.
14 December
2009
Whilst there he caused $1,000 worth of damage to a cash register then left the
store.
Four-year-old boy kissed on lips at McDonald's
A four-year-old boy and his sister were having dinner with their mother on
Saturday night in Drummoyne when the mother noticed a ‘‘dodgy’’ looking
man lingering outside the toilets.
The man approached her children while she stepped away from the table to
order dessert. She saw him chatting to the children and described what
happened next.
‘‘Then he turned around and took his cheeks and then kissed him passionately
and then put a lollipop next to the table ... and he left,’’ the mother, who cannot
be named, told reporters in Sydney today.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 24 of 110
15 December
2009
A man who targets restaurants and kisses young children on the lips struck
again today, the mother of one his victims says her son hasn't been the same
since he was attacked.
A nine-year-old girl was kissed on the lips by a stranger at a McDonald's
restaurant on the Olympic Highway in Cowra about 8.30am today.
http://www.watoday.com.
au/national/police-alertas-maccas-lip-kisserstrikes-again-20091215ktur.html#ixzz21ygdzxE9
By Glenda
Kwek
From WA
Today
15 December
2009
http://www.starnewsgroup.c
om.au/news/pakenham/224
/story/83986.html
News
Pakenham
The incident comes after two boys were similarly assaulted in separate attacks
at Sydney McDonald's restaurants at the weekend.
24 December
2009 – new
since
submission and
new since
hearing
POLICE are preparing to saturate Pakenham roads over Christmas holidays as
residents become increasingly worried about local hoons.
One resident, who preferred not to be named, said Ahern Road was frequented by
drivers “squealing their tires” and “doing burnouts.”
Princess Highway is also a hoon hot spot, and last week, one unsafe driver
was nabbed doing a ‘fish tail’ out of the McDonalds car park. His vehicle
was seized for 48 hours and he was charged with careless driving.
Pakenham Senior Sergeant Alan McCarthy said regardless of the time of year, police
have a no-tolerance stance for unsafe drivers, but they will be targeting hoons
during the holidays.
“At Christmas time, there are more people out on the road and more people that
can witness poor behaviour, but from time to time, bad driving occurs in various
locations around Cardinia Shire. It can be any time of the day and in any location,”
he said.
“We have zero tolerance for people committing offences and they will be dealt with
immediately. The purpose is to reduce the road toll of death and injuries.”
Sen Sgt McCarthy said he encouraged anyone who witnessed bad driving to ring
Triple-0 instantly.
“If they ring Triple-0 with the registration number and description of the area, they
will get a quick response,” he said.
“People can call after the event occurs as well and can provide information
anonymously.”
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 25 of 110
Police will be carrying out Operation Aegis over the holidays as part of a state wide
initiative targeting poor drivers.
“Uniformed police and Traffic Management Police will be out on all streets
throughout Pakenham, and across the state discouraging speeding drink, drug and
fatigue impaired driving,” Sen Sgt McCarthy said.
“We will target people who put themselves and others at risk. We don’t want them
to ruin other people’s Christmas.”
4 January 2010
Wee in park, not Macca's
A TOURIST who urinated inside the front entrance of an Adelaide McDonald's
should have relieved himself in nearby parklands, says a senior magistrate.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/wee-in-park-notmaccas-magistrate/storyfn3dxity-1225815987915
"You know there is a really big parkland across the road," Deputy Chief
Magistrate Andrew Cannon told Queensland holidaymaker John Hawkins in
the Adelaide Magistrates Court today.
by: By Ken
McGregor
From: The
Advertiser
January 04,
2010 3:31PM
"It might be (illegal) but at least you would have probably gotten away with it."
Hawkins today pleaded guilty to one count of urinating in a public place after a
dispute with staff at the McDonald's West Terrace restaurant on December 11.
7 January 2010
– New since
Submission
The court heard that staff refused Hawkins' requests to use their toilet facilities
because they were "out of order".
Police seek witnesses to assault
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following an assault on a 50-year-old
Byron Bay man and a 43-year-old man from Alstonville at McDonald’s in
Ballina.
http://www.northernstar.c
om.au/story/2010/01/07/
police-seek-witnessesto-maccas-assault/
Amanda
Sproule | 7th
January 2010
3:00 AM
Limore
Northern Star
The incident happened at 4pm on Tuesday when a group of three males was
asked to leave the restaurant, and then the grounds, after consuming alcohol
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and abusing staff and customers. A staff member who asked the group to
leave was punched in the face and knocked unconscious momentarily.
Another male customer came to his aid and tried to stop the group from leaving
the scene, but was punched repeatedly in the face.
Both victims were taken to Ballina Hospital, where one of the men was
admitted. He was later released.
Ballina police station manager Mat Johnson said police in Ballina were
investigating the incident.
Already, police have found items that will allow DNA samples to be taken.
Mr Johnson said a vehicle of interest was also seen leaving the McDonald’s.
He said the assault was not linked to an earlier hit and run in the McDonald’s
car park on New Year’s Day.
“There haven’t been any other incidents over the New Yearperiod. These have
just been two random incidents,” he said.
“Having two in less than a week is very out of the ordinary.”
Mr Johnson said although a number of witnesses had alre-ady helped them
with their inquiries, police were requesting assistance from the public.
14 January
2010 – New
since
Submission
City Police Hunt for Attacker
POLICE have released images of a man they want to question over a
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.qt.com.au/sto
ry/2010/01/14/city-policehunt-for-mcdonaldsattacker/
The
Queensland
Times
Page 27 of 110
“ridiculous act of violence” at the Yamanto McDonald’s.
Ipswich police are seeking public assistance to identify a suspect for an assault
in the McDonald’s car park.
Senior Sergeant Julian Burke said the assault was between 11pm and
midnight on December 15 last year.
He said there was interaction between the victim and his friends as they
walked on Warwick Road and the suspect’s passing vehicle.
“The suspect was driving a silver Mitsubishi Magna sedan and was with two
other Maori or Pacific Islander males,” Snr Sgt Burke said.
“The victim and his friends were walking from the Glades Tavern when
someone in a passing vehicle threw an egg at one of them.
“After that, the suspect’s vehicle approached the group and the person who
was egged flicked liquid from a bottle on to the car.”
The victim ordered from the McDonald’s drive through and was waiting when
the suspect approached him.
He said the suspect punched the man, 35, in the face, causing him to fall. He
hurt his hand as he fell and has a sore jaw.
“It was a ridiculous act of violence,” Snr Sgt Burke said.
He said the suspect is 175cm tall with dark hair, an overweight or obese build,
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of Maori or Pacific Islander extraction, with a banded tattoo on his upper left
arm.
19 January
2010 - New
Since
Submission
McDonald’s manager assaulted
A 23-YEAR-OLD McDonald’s restaurant manager suffered a fractured cheek
bone and a bruised eye socket after what witnesses described as a savage,
unprovoked attack on him in Midland last week.
http://kalamunda.inmyco
mmunity.com.au/newsand-views/localnews/McDonaldsmanagerassaulted/7546265/
Kalamunda In
My Community
News
https://wa.crimestoppers.
com.au/help_solve_crim
e/unsolved_cases/assaul
t/assault-mcdonaldsascot-wa
Crime
Stoppers
Police believe the incident was sparked at 7.35pm after a female customer
became abusive over her food order.
She was then asked to leave the fast food outlet by the victim. The woman was
eventually ushered from the restaurant after swearing at customers and staff.
Police said a male entered the store a short time later and allegedly confronted
the victim over the incident before punching him in the face with a clenched fist.
The victim was temporarily stunned and later taken to RPH by ambulance
where he received treatment for his injuries.
Acting Senior Sergeant John Oag from Midland Police said the assault was
sickening in nature.
“The victim was just trying to do his job and was assaulted without any prior
warning,” he said. “He didn’t even have a chance to defend himself,” he said.
2 February
2010
A manager at McDonalds in Ascot was left frightened after being
victimised by two males in a foolish rampage.
At around 1.30am on Tuesday the 2nd of February, 2010, the manager was
operating the drive through area when he noticed two males kicking in a lower
panel of a glass door to the restaurant, causing it to smash. The males then
moved around to where the staff member was working and lent through the
drive through window and pushed a trolley from inside the store into the
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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active as an unsolved
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3 February
2010 – New
since
submission
manager. Scared, the manager quickly closed the service window and locked
it. The males ran off and were seen leaving in a white Toyota Camry sedan.
Streaker's bet doesn't pay off
A TEEN who ran naked through the McDonald's drive-through for a $50 bet
ended up $350 out of pocket when he appeared in Gympie Magistrates Court
this week.
crime.
http://www.gympietimes.
com.au/story/2010/02/03
/streakers-bet-pays-offin-laughs-only/
The Gympie
Times
Jack Moloney, 18, came to the conclusion it wasn't worth the effort when he
was fined $400 for streaking during the early hours of December 5, and for
more behavioural offences he committed in the McDonald's car park a week
later.
“There was nothing to be seen, Your Honour,” police prosecutor Sergeant
Jason Todman told the Gympie Magistrate after he accused Moloney of
exposing his genitals in the McDonald's car park as a dare and practical joke.
He went on to say Moloney caught police attention again on December 12
when they heard a car horn being blown at least 10 times in the McDonald's
car park. The court heard when Moloney was asked to get out of the offending
vehicle he became belligerent towards police, swearing and carrying on in front
of passers-by.
Moloney was arrested for committing a public nuisance and was taken to the
police station however, on the way, he swung his right elbow and struck a
police officer who was sitting next to him in the back seat.
The court's duty lawyer Chris Anderson said his instructions were that Moloney
was bet $50 to run completely naked through the McDonald's drive-through
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and had come to the conclusion the money wasn't worth it
Mr Anderson said in both events, Moloney was intoxicated and couldn't
remember swinging at the officer on December 12.
Magistrate Maxine Baldwin appeared almost lost for words.
“I hardly know what to say to you,” she said to Moloney.
“It's probably enough punishment that everyone will be laughing at this report
in the paper.”
Moloney, of Pedersen Road, Southside, was fined $400 for the offences, and
placed on probation for 12 months.
Mrs Baldwin added that she was not sure if the public would have been
impressed with Moloney's physique, or whether the incident was totally
insignificant.
26 February
2010
A MAN has been stabbed in the back during a dispute at a fast food outlet
in southeast Melbourne.
The 18-year-old man was near the drive-through of the McDonald's restaurant
on the Princes Highway, Pakenham, about 1.50am (AEDT) when he became
involved in a dispute with another man.
http://www.dailytelegraph
.com.au/news/national/m
an-stabbed-in-back-atmcdonalds/storye6freuzr-1225835003447
From: AAP
February 27,
2010 10:03AM
He was stabbed in the back and the attacker fled.
15 March 2010
– New since
Submission
The injured man was taken to The Alfred hospital for treatment.
Man gets chippy over stale Maccas
A MAN attacked a night manager at a McDonald’s restaurant in Ipswich
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.qt.com.au/s
tory/2010/03/15/soggychips-protest-leads-to-
Felicity
Caldwell | 15th
Page 31 of 110
because he claimed his chips were soggy and stale.
The 17-year-old was at the McDonald’s in Ipswich with his friends and cousins
at 2.30am on January 29 when he went to the counter to complain about his
food.
mac-attack/
March 2010
2:10 AM
The
Queensland
Times
Ipswich Magistrates’ Court heard Azeam Donald Cavanagh became
aggressive, so the night manager asked him to leave.
Cavanagh walked behind the counter and began punching the manager in the
head, the court was told.
The victim curled himself into a ball but still suffered bruises to the back of his
head.
Prosecutor Sergeant Mathew Donnolly said police found Cavanagh a short
time later and he admitted the assault.
Cavanagh pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and was given 12
months probation with no conviction recorded and was ordered to pay $250
compensation to his victim.
Defence lawyer Trevor Hoskin said the night manager had asked one of
Cavanagh’s cousins to leave the store and “didn’t use very polite language”.
Mr Hoskin said his client then went to complain about the chips and the night
manager tipped the chips out and told Cavanagh, who was drunk, to leave “in
no uncertain terms”.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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“It’s not provocation for law. It doesn’t give him any excuse,” Mr Hoskin said.
“But he doesn’t go off for no reason.”
Magistrate Virginia Sturgess told Cavanagh offences of violence were not
tolerated in the community.
“You cannot be going around assaulting people for no good reason,” Ms
Sturgess said.
“People who work in these shops at 2.30am, they’re often working alone or
with limited staff and they’re very vulnerable.”
26 March 2010
A PEDOPHILE who was on a sexual offenders supervision order
breached it by attending a support meeting at a McDonald's family
restaurant, a court heard today.
Last year Raymond Yeo, 63, was sent back to detention after a Supreme Court
judge found he had breached his supervision order by attending a meeting at
the family restaurant where children could have been.
http://www.couriermail.co
m.au/news/queensland/p
edophile-raymond-yeobreached-order-byattending-supportmeeting-atmcdonalds/storye6freoof-1225845927973
Mark
Oberhardt
From: The
Courier-Mail
March 26,
2010 10:37AM
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/nation/man
-charged-with-bizarremcdonaldsrobbery/story-e6frg6pf1225846397295
by: By Todd
Cardy, Nicole
Cox and Phil
Hickey
Yeo has been before the courts on a regular basis for many years with his
most recent convictions in 2001 for sexual offences against boys and he
served a full five-year sentence.
27 March 2010
In 2006, he was ordered to be detained indefinitely under the Dangerous
Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act but in 2007 the detention order was
rescinded and a supervision order imposed.
Man charged with bizarre McDonald's robbery
A MAN allegedly robbed a McDonald's restaurant in just his pants.
Police claim that Dalton Jeffrey Brittain, 20, walked into a McDonald's in the
southern Perth suburb of Spearwood armed with a knife.
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PerthNow
He allegedly had tea towels were wrapped around his head and toilet paper
around his body in an attempt to disguise himself, PerthNow reported.
28 March 2010
A court was told that he threatened at least two staff members, demanded
cash and then fled.
Bail for man accused of filming co-workers
A man charged with secretly filming his female co-workers in a changing room
at a Gold Coast fast food outlet has been granted bail.
Leigh Shannon Dauncey, of Elanora, was charged with four counts of
observations or recordings in breach of privacy when he appeared in Southport
Magistrates Court today.
30 March 2010
3 April 2010
A video camera was allegedly discovered in the women's change rooms of the
Elanora McDonalds store on March 6, 2010.
Adelaide CUSTOMERS and staff at a Goodwood McDonald's were
subjected to a terrifying few minutes as a man smashed up the restaurant
following a dispute. Witnesses say the man, in his 40s, argued with counter
staff and managers over an allegedly mistaken order before he grabbed the
manager over the counter, physically assaulting him.
Armed Robbery Bell Street - Preston
At 11.20 pm on Saturday 3 April 2010, two men walked into McDonalds on Bell
Street, Preston.
March 27,
2010 10:52PM
http://www.brisbanetimes
.com.au/queensland/bailfor-man-accused-offilming-coworkers201203281vxo1.html#ixzz21zyvvU
aN
28 March 2012
From The
Brisbane
Times
http://www.adelaidenow.
com.au/news/southaustralia/irate-mansmashes-goodwoodmcdonalds-outlet/storye6frea831225847686953
Aaron
McDonald
From: The
Advertiser
March 30,
2010 8:51PM
https://vic.crimestoppers.
com.au/node/13834
Crime
Stoppers
They allegedly threatened to shoot staff members before removing cash from
the tills.
They left the store and got into a red vehicle in Bell Street.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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29 April 2010
New since
submission
22yo a public nuisance at Maccas
ASHLEY James Briscoe intimidated bystanders when he took his shirt off in
the McDonald’s carpark, waved it around his head and began yelling that he
http://www.frasercoastch
ronicle.com.au/story/201
0/04/29/pull-your-headin-magistrate-warns/
News Mail
wanted to fight.
This is what the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court was told when Briscoe
appeared on a charge of public nuisance.
Police saw the 22-year-old being aggressive in the carpark of the Hervey Bay
restaurant in the early hours of March 27.
The officers had already spoken to him a short time earlier when they
witnessed him trying to start a fight.
On the second occasion, they clearly heard him calling out swear words in the
carpark in front of a group of about 10 people, who began to move away
because of his actions, the court was told.
Briscoe walked across Boat Harbour Drive, continuing his tirade as he went.
Magistrate Graeme Tatnell was not surprised to hear that Briscoe had been
drinking that night.
“If someone treated you like that you’d be making all sorts of complaints,” Mr
Tatnell said.
“You need to pull your head in and behave yourself.”
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 35 of 110
8 May 2010
9 May 2010
11 May 2010 –
New since
submission
A WOMAN was more than four times the legal alcohol limit when she
crashed into the side of a McDonald's outlet while trying to order some
drive-thru tucker, according to police. Police said the 49-year-old Wonthaggi
woman wedged her Toyota station wagon into a garden bed at the take-away
restaurant, on the corner of Bilson and Graham streets, at 2.25pm yesterday.
Police said a breath test was conducted, with a reading of 0.207.
A STUDENT was beaten unconscious in a McDonald's restaurant over
some spilt water.
Rafael Daza, 34, said he was attacked after he was accused of spilling a
woman's drink by an irate man, believed to be her boyfriend. Even as the man
repeatedly punched Mr Daza, the woman was trying to tell him that he had had
nothing to do with it. Mr Daza suffered a possible fractured eye socket and
displaced nose in the brutal attack at a McDonald's restaurant in Sydney's
Kings Cross on Sunday, May 9 at about 3.25am.
Alleged attacker faces court
A MAN accused of sexually assaulting a woman sleeping in a car in the car
park of McDonald’s south side has fronted court.
Mark Daniel Bottomley, 17, appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court
charged with possession of drug utensils, entering a premises, assault
occasioning bodily harm and sexual assault.
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/do-you-wantfries-with-thebreathalyser/storye6frf7jo-1225863913513
Mary
Papadakis
From: Herald
Sun May 08,
2010 11:24AM
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/national/stud
ent-rafael-daza-bashedto-a-pulp-in-mcdonaldsover-spilt-water/storye6frf7l6-1225889572820
By Edith Bevin
From: The
Daily
Telegraph July
09, 2010
12:00AM
http://www.themorningbu
lletin.com.au/story/2010/
05/11/man-fronts-courtover-alleged-attack-inmcdonalds-/
Liam
Butterworth |
11th May 2010
2:15 AM
Rockhampton
Morning
Bulletin
It was his second appearance in front of the magistrate after making a brief
appearance on Saturday morning.
His matter was adjourned until today and he was remanded in custody.
His charges stem from an alleged assault on a 24-year old woman at 5.15am
on Friday morning.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 36 of 110
Bottomley’s defence counsel is expected to apply for bail when he faces court
again today.
31 May 2010 –
New since
Submission
Self-serve drink costs patron $750
A MAN got so sick of waiting in line at an Ipswich McDonald's that he walked
behind the counter and helped himself to a drink.
Roy Henry Vines was waiting in line at 9.30pm on Anzac Day when he slapped
$5 on the counter and started filling a cup of soft drink from the drink dispenser.
http://www.qt.com.au/sto
ry/2010/05/31/self-servedrink-costs-patron-750/
Felicity
Caldwell | 31st
May 2010 2:05
AM
The
Queensland
Times
Ipswich Magistrates Court heard a 20-year-old female employee approached
Vines and told him to leave the store and stop using the drink machine.
But instead of complying, Vines used his forearm and shoulder to push the
victim out of the way.
Vines, 28, told the terrified young woman: “Let me get my (expletive) drink. If
you don't get out of my way I'll make you get away.”
He then pinned her against another drink machine while he continued to fill up
his cup.
Prosecutor Senior Constable Adam McDonald said the woman was terrified
during the incident and thought Vines would assault her. “She was upset and
not capable of being able to continue her shift – the manager sent her home,”
Snr Const McDonald said.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 37 of 110
Police found Vines a short time later and he admitted going behind the counter
to get his partner a drink.
“He didn't like the amount of time he was being made to wait so he helped
himself,” Snr Const McDonald said.
Vines pleaded guilty to common assault, public nuisance and trespassing. He
was fined $750 with no conviction recorded.
Defence lawyer Matthew Fairclough said his client had too much to drink that
night and was embarrassed about his conduct.
“It was a bit of stupidity and tomfoolery,” Mr Fairclough said.
“Obviously he needs to grow up and drink more responsibly.”
Magistrate Virginia Sturgess told Vines young shop assistants were vulnerable
and she would have been very scared.
“She doesn't turn up at her shift at McDonald's expecting people to treat her
like this,” Ms Sturgess said. “To think that you have some right over and above
everybody else in the shop is just the height of arrogance.”
Vines told the court he knew his behaviour was unacceptable and he wanted to
apologise to the employee but had been advised to avoid the restaurant.
1 June 2010
A SPANISH national who admitted molesting four young children at
McDonald's restaurants has escaped a jail term and will instead be
deported. Jorge Manuel Alberich Lombarte, 48, pleaded guilty yesterday in
Central Local Court to seven charges relating to inappropriately kissing and
touching the children, aged between four and 11, during a four-day visit to
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.dailytelegraph
.com.au/news/sydneynsw/mcdonaldsmolester-deported/storye6freuzi-1225873752666
By Larissa
Cummings
From: The
Daily
Telegraph
Page 38 of 110
2 June 2010 –
New since
Submission
Sydney last year. He said he suffered a mental illness, but Magistrate Allan
Moore rejected the claim and sentenced him to an 18-month good behaviour
bond before handing him to immigration officials for deportation to Spain. The
assaults took place in McDonald's restaurants at Drummoyne, Sylvania,
Goulburn and Cowra from December 12 to 15.
Dispute ends in McKnuckle sandwich
A DISPUTE between neighbours over broken glass in a driveway and a flat
June 01, 2010
12:00AM
http://www.dailymercury.
com.au/story/2010/06/02
/mcknuckle-sandwich/
Mackay Daily
Mercury
http://www.qt.com.au/sto
ry/2010/06/04/mcdonalds
-increases-security-atoutlet/
The
Queensland
Times
tyre led to one man being punched by another in a McDonald's Restaurant car
park.
It was 8.15pm on April 2 when Trent Saunders, 20, an apprentice plumber, saw
his neighbour sitting in a car in the restaurant carpark and punched him in the
face. The victim suffered a cut nose.
A police investigation revealed that Saunders believed his neighbour was
responsible for broken glass being in Saunder's driveway, which led to a flat
tyre.
Saunders pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm.
Paul Smith, of Kelly Legal, said an on-going dispute escalated but Saunders
was now doing a five-week anger management course.
Magistrate Ross Risson told Saunders he could not take the law into his own
hands. He was fined $750 and was ordered to pay $1200 compensation to his
neighbour.
4 June 2010 –
New since
Submission
McDonald's increases security
MCDONALD’S says it has had to beef up security for its Top of Town outlet
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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since it opened this year.
“In Ipswich we have progressively introduced a suite of proactive customermanagement initiatives such as maximising crew numbers during pub closing
times to ensure customers are served quickly, introduced security lighting and
CCTV, and we have employed the services of a security guard on Friday and
Saturday evenings,” a McDonald’s spokesman said.
Inner-city councillor Andrew Antoniolli said he was aware of problems and
planned to raise them with new Ipswich Police Station officer in charge Senior
Sergeant Laurie Shevlin.
“That’s one of the issues I need to discuss with him, including lappers,” Cr
Antoniolli said.
“I’m hearing some things including some matters at the new McDonald’s. I’ve
also heard about young people walking the street late at night.
“This highlights the need for some sort of intervention centre like Goori House
at Cleveland.”
Sergeant Greg Smith, who is a co-ordinator in the police communications
room, said there had been “incidences of groups of young people hanging
around causing trouble”.
9 June 2010
New since
submission
Man fined for putting boot
A DRUNKEN Coffs Harbour man who put the boot into a local McDonalds
restaurant has come off second best.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.coffscoastadv
ocate.com.au/story/2010/
06/09/fined-for-puttingboot-in-court-coffs-crimehorne/
The Advocate
Coffs Harbour
Page 40 of 110
In a fast food frenzy, Thomas John Horne attacked the drive through speaker
box of the Coffs Harbour McDonalds.
Issued with a verbal warning from store managers, he continued to kick the
metal box, threatening staff.
The whole episode in the early hours of December 13 last year was captured
on closed circuit camera footage.
As restaurant managers waited for police to arrive, they confronted Horne and
another man, who was with him at the time.
The tirade of abuse continued before Horne took out his anger on a customer’s
vehicle.
As the Falcon Ford exited the drive through, Horne kicked the passenger’s side
door panel of the car, leaving a 15cm dent.
As officers arrived, Horne fled on foot but was detained after a short foot
pursuit at about 2.30am.
Described by officers as unsteady on his feet, well affected by substances and
smelling of alcohol, he was arrested and charged with destroy or damage
property and common assault.
The assault charge was dropped in the Coffs Harbour Local Court, but Horne
was found guilty of damaging the vehicle.
30 June 2010
LABOR MP was king-hit, thrown against a car and bashed in the carpark
of a suburban McDonald's.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.news.com.au/
national/would-you-likebruises-with-that-mp-
By Andrew
Clennell
Page 41 of 110
The New South Wales MP claimed his American assailant repeatedly told him
"this is how we do it in America" during Sunday's attack outside the fast-food
restaurant in Thornleigh, in Sydney's north.
paul-gibson-bashed-inmcdonaldscarpark/story-e6frfkvr1225885901903#ixzz1X
WpBH7vS
From: The
Daily
Telegraph
June 30, 2010
9:45AM
13 July 2010 –
new since
submission and
new since
hearing
POLICE have released pictures of a man they believe committed robberies in Taylors
Lakes and Ardeer, while armed with a hand gun.
Armed Crime Taskforce detectives have been investigating an armed robbery which
occurred at the National Australia Bank at Watergardens Shopping Centre, Taylors
Lakes on 18 June.
http://www.starnewsgroup.c
om.au/star/sunshne-ardeeralbion/253/story/91535.html
By Alesha
Capone
Star News
Group –
Sunshine,
Ardeer, Albion
About 9.45am, a man armed with a hand gun entered the bank and threatened staff
and customers, before demanding tellers place cash inside a blue shopping bag.
Afterwards, the offender fled the bank in a white Hyundai Excel that was missing its
hub caps.
Police also believe the man committed an armed robbery at a McDonalds restaurant
on the Western Ring Rd in Ardeer around 8.45pm on the same day. The male was
carrying what appeared to be a semi-automatic hand gun as he approached staff at
the drive-through window.
He told two employees to hand over cash and then escaped.
The male suspect was described as being in his late twenties, between 177cm and
185cm tall, of a slim build and with a pointed nose.
He wore a dark-coloured scarf that covered his face, sunglasses with a metal frame,
jeans and dark gloves.
18 July 2010
Assault - Melbourne - 18 July 2010
At about 6.10am on Sunday 18 July, 2010 a man was allegedly assaulted by
two men at McDonald’s, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, resulting in his nose
being broken.
http://vic.crimestoppers.c
om.au/node/12970
Crime
Stoppers
Police have released images of two men whom they believe may be able to
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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23 July 2010
assist them in their enquiries.
Girl, 6, jabbed by needle in McDonald's restaurant in Wollongong
A GIRL aged six has been pricked by a needle in a play area of a McDonald's
restaurant in Wollongong, south of Sydney.
The youngster was playing on equipment at the restaurant on Corrimal St
when a discarded needle became lodged in her left thumb just after 10am
yesterday.
26 July 2010
The needle was pulled from her thumb before her family left the restaurant and
rushed her to a doctor.
Woman and son carjacked at Adelaide's Smithfield McDonald's
AN armed man threatened to stab a woman and her young son before stealing
their car at knife-point at a McDonalds store in Adelaide's northern suburbs last
night.
She was in the waiting lane of the fast food outlet on Main North Rd, Smithfield,
about 5.50pm when a man of Aboriginal appearance threatened her with the
knife. The terrified woman put the keys to the car on the roof and grabbed her
young son out of the car as the carjacker got into the driver's seat.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/girl-6-jabbed-byneedle-in-mcdonaldsrestaurant-inwollongong/storyfn3dxity-1225895926997
From: AAP
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/womancarjacked-at-smithfieldmcdonalds/storye6frg6p61225896803474
by: By Michael
Milnes
July 23, 2010
9:02AM
From:
AdelaideNow
July 26, 2010
12:34AM
The woman was too distraught to talk to AdelaideNow, but witness Danny and
his wife Hayley with their two children were behind the victim's car and saw the
robbery take place.
"I looked up and saw the man get into the woman's car. Then she came to my
car door saying: 'He's stolen my car', so I got out and approached the car,"
Danny said. "He locked the door on the car and drove off.
"She was distraught - he had a knife and threatened to stab her."
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 43 of 110
5 August 2010
New since
submission
Motel bills dodged
A MAN who failed to pay for accommodation at two Bundaberg hotels before
causing a scene in McDonald's faced court yesterday.
http://www.newsmail.com.au/story/2010/0
8/05/motel-bills-dodged/
News Mail
Paul Connelly, 30, of North Bundaberg, pleaded guilty in Bundaberg
Magistrates Court to fraud and public nuisance offences.
Police Prosecutor Sergeant Robyn Shapcott told the court Connelly checked
into the Kalua Motel for six nights on January 19 and only paid in full for one
night and part of another.
He left the motel early on the morning of January 24 and checked into the
Bourbong Street Motel a few hours later where he stayed for three nights,
giving the reception his bank card and PIN.
Sergeant Shapcott said the defendant told them he was waiting for a Centrelink
payment to come in and then they could take the money from the card.
He left the motel the following day and cancelled the card, meaning the bill was
not paid.
Police located and arrested Connelly on March 26 and he admitted to leaving
the motels without paying.
He then failed to appear for a court hearing on June 4.
On May 15 at 9.50pm, police were called to McDonald's on Takalvan Street
where an intoxicated Connelly had been causing a scene after losing his
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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wallet.
Sgt Shapcott said Connelly swore at staff in front of families with young
children and searched both the male and female bathrooms, causing distress
to a number of women using the facilities.
Defence Lawyer Thomas Bray said his client went to the hotels shortly after
splitting with his partner, leaving him itinerant for a time.
“He regrets having a go at the McDonald's staff,” he said. “He acknowledges
his actions were inappropriate.”
Magistrate Jennifer Batts fined Connelly $240 for the fail to appear charge,
$300 for the public nuisance and $660 for the fraud offences.
10 September
2010
ATTEMPTED DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY - MCDONALDS - JULL STREET
ARMADALE WA
A young female staff attendant at Mc Donald’s in Armadale was left shaken
after a car load of young males attempted to pull her into their car in a foolish
prank.
At around 5.15pm on Friday the 10th September, 2010, a car load of about 5
males attended the McDonalds drive thru on Jull Street, Armadale. After
placing their order, one of the males grabbed the cashiers hand when she went
to return their change. They continued their obnoxious behaviour of singing,
shouting and gestures until they were told to park in a waiting area until their
order was ready. Soon after a female staff attendant took out their order and
handed it over to the male driver. As she did the driver grabbed her wrist and
wouldn’t let go. As she struggled the driver grabbed her other wrist. She
eventually managed to escape and ran back into the store. The incident left the
female staff member quite scared and unsure of what the driver’s intentions
were.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
https://wa.crimestoppers.
com.au/help_solve_crim
e/unsolved_cases/assaul
t/attempted-deprivationliberty-mcdonalds-jullstreet-armadale
Crime
Stoppers
This link is no longer
active as an unsolved
crime.
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10 September
2010
11 September
2010
Two more arrested over theft of Boris the python
POLICE have made two more arrests over the theft of a python and a lizard
from a Melbourne pet store.
Two men are being interviewed at the Heidelberg police station in connection
with the theft on Wednesday where two other men were arrested in a
McDonald's carpark wrestling with the 1.5 metre long python called Boris.
Armed Robbery - Melton Highway - Sydenham - 11 September 2010
About 2.30am on Saturday 11 September, 2010, a man entered McDonalds on
Melton Highway, Sydenham.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/two-more-arrestedover-theft-of-boris-thepython/story-fn3dxity1225917542958
From: AAP
September 10,
2010 5:48PM
https://vic.crimestoppers.
com.au/node/13689
He allegedly produced a carving knife and threatened a female staff member
before stealing the contents of the register.
24 October
2010 – new
since
submission
Man 'stole charity boxes' from McDonald's
CANBERRA police have charged a man for allegedly stealing two Ronald
McDonald charity donation boxes from the counter of a McDonald's restaurant.
Police said the 34-year-old male from the southern Canberra suburb of Gowrie was
charged with theft following a search at his home on Friday.
http://www.theaustralian.co
m.au/news/breakingnews/man-stole-charityboxes-frommcdonalds/story-fn3dxity1225942811807
From: AAP
October 24,
2010 10:15AM
It's alleged he went to the McDonald's restaurant in Dickson on Canberra's northside
on Wednesday and stole the two Ronald McDonald donation boxes from the front
counter.
Closed circuit television imagery led police to the man and a subsequent search
warrant being executed on his home.
ACT police said the man was stopped by police as he was leaving his home and
consented to his vehicle being searched.
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A number of items were seized from the vehicle and home, police said.
The man was summonsed to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court at a later date.
Police did not know how much cash was in the donation boxes.
25 October
2010
A small home-made device has exploded in a toilet in the rest room of a
fast-food outlet in western Sydney, police say.
The device was detonated in the men's toilet cubicle at a McDonald's
restaurant on High Street in Penrith about 9.10pm yesterday.
http://www.smh.com.au/n
sw/toilet-explodes-insydney-fastfood-restroom-20101025170d8.html
Staff Writer
From The
Sydney
Morning
Herald
25 October
2010
https://wa.crimestoppers.
com.au/help_solve_crim
e/unsolved_cases/assaul
t/grevious-bodily-harmscarborough-beachroad-north-perth-wa-3
This link is no longer
active as an unsolved
crime.
Crime
Stoppers
"The explosion damaged the toilet cistern and an air vent," NSW Police said in
a statement today.
"There was nobody in the rest room at the time. The remnants of a crudely
made explosive device was found and taken for forensic examination."
31 October
2010
GREVIOUS BODILY HARM - SCARBOROUGH BEACH ROAD NORTH
PERTH WA
Police need assistance to help identify a man sporting crutches that was in
company with six other males who savagely attacked a young man outside
McDonalds in North Perth.
Around 3.55am on Sunday the 31st of October, 2011, the 19 year old victim
and his two friends were dressed in Halloween costumes when they went to
McDonalds on Scarborough Beach Road for a late night feed. A group of
seven males and two females were camped on the bonnets of two vehicles
when an exchange of words led to an argument which quickly escalated out of
control with the victim being repeatedly punched about the head and body
when the male bearing crutches cowardly ran at the victim and smashed him in
the face. The victim was slumped over but remained on his feet when another
male kicked him to the face causing him to stagger around in a semi-conscious
state. A member of the group alerted the males that police were on their way
causing them to leave the scene immediately in an older model medium sized
blue sedan that was last seen driving in a northerly direction on Charles
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Street.
10 November
2010
9 December
2010
The vicious attack left the 19 year old male with a badly fractured jaw, a
collapsed eye socket and a broken nose.
Police are appealing to witnesses after a young shop assistant at
McDonalds Maddington was left terrified after being held up by a masked
man armed with a kitchen knife.
At around 11.40pm on Wednesday the 10th of November, 2010, the female
staff member was serving a customer at the drive through section of the
McDonalds store on Albany Highway, Maddington. As she was processing the
order through the till, a masked man appeared between the customer’s vehicle
and the window. He grabbed her arm and threatened her with a knife whilst
demanding money. Seeing that the man was armed with a 20cm long black
handled knife gave the girl enough strength to escape his grasp. The robber
attempted to grab money from the till but not before the quick thinking young
lady slammed the till shut and ran to her manager for help.
Detectives remain on the hunt for the male involved in an argument that
began in the drive thru line of McDonalds in Forrestfield and rapidly
escalated out of control with the 34 year old victim breaking his arm while
protecting himself from a golf club being swung at him.
Around 8.30pm on Thursday the 9th of December 2011, the victim had just
approached the drive thru line when the driver of another vehicle accused him
of pushing in front. The victim denied the accusation, before both men exited
their vehicles and engaged in a hostile confrontation.
14 December
2010
To avoid further hostility the victim returned to his vehicle and in a surprise
attack the driver swung a golf club at the front windscreen and driver’s side
window. The victim raised his arm to protect himself from the barrage of hits
which followed, with driver repeatedly striking the victim on his right arm before
driving off in a White Nissan 180SX.
Man left with broken jaw after brawl erupts at McDonald's
A man was left with a broken jaw and severe bruising after he and a group of
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
https://wa.crimestoppers.
com.au/help_solve_crim
e/unsolved_cases/robber
y/attempted-robberymcdonalds-albanyhighway-maddington-wa10-
Crime
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https://wa.crimestoppers.
com.au/help_solve_crim
e/unsolved_cases/assaul
t/assault-mcdonaldshale-road-forrestfield-wa09-dec-2010
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http://www.watoday.com.
au/wa-news/man-leftwith-broken-jaw-after-
By Lee-Maree
Gallo
From WA
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friends were assaulted inside a fast-food restaurant on the weekend, according
to police.
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6ii
Today
December 14,
2010
http://whitehorseleader.whereilive.com.au
/news/story/thievestarget-blackburnmcdonalds/
by Bridie
Byrne
From
Whitehorse
Leader 17 Dec
10 @ 12:00pm
http://www.themorningbu
lletin.com.au/story/2010/
12/24/burnout-bunglemaccas-drive-through/
Rockhamption
Morning
Bulletin
The 19-year-old man and his friends were at McDonald's on Kalamunda Road
in High Wycombe on Saturday night when another group entered the
restaurant.
17 December
2010
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2010 – New
since
Submission
Police claim a fight broke out between the two groups, who were unknown to
each other, which resulted in the man's jaw being broken.
Thieves target Blackburn McDonalds –
A MAN brandishing a knife and a female with a screwdriver have robbed a
McDonalds in Blackburn.
Box Hill Embona Sen-Constable Peter Dallan-Jones said the thugs arrived at
the Canterbury Rd outlet just after midnight on December 13. He said the staff
were threatened and then forced to open the cash register. The thieves stole
just over $100 before fleeing north down the rear car park.
Burnout bungle at Maccas drive through
2.09pm A 23-year-old Mackay resident has been charged with dangerous
operation of a motor vehicle after colliding with a fence at a McDonald's
restaurant.
The man had just collected his fast food from the drive through window at the
McDonald's on Yaamba Road shortly before 11am when he exited the lane
and attempted a burn-out in his 1998 Nissan.
However the burn-out flopped when he accelerated and crashed into a fence
bordering the drive-through lane.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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Sergeant Allan Fleming said the driver then fled the scene but was located this
afternoon after police received information from witnesses as to his identity.
He will appear in the Rockhampton Magistrates Court in due course.
3 January 2011
Axe-wielding bandits rob Keysborough McDonald's. Police are hunting the pair,
who entered the McDonald's store in Cheltenham Rd, Keysborough, about
3.20am.
4 January 2011
Bandits brandish axes in Lynbrook McDonald's robbery.
5 January 2011
McDonald's staff alert after robberies. FAST food giant McDonald's has put its
restaurants in Victoria on alert following armed robberies at two of its
Melbourne outlets in less than 24 hours. Police believe the brazen robberies
were carried out by the same two bandits who threaten staff by waving an axe
and a machete and wearing bandannas to cover their faces. The first hold-up
occurred early yesterday at Keysborough where five young McDonald's staff
were threatened violently as the robbers demanded money from the cash
registers. Then at 11.30pm they struck again at a McDonald's at Lynbrook,
15km away in Melbourne's south-east.
Cranbourne McDonald's hit by axe-wielding bandits.
THE tomahawk-wielding bandits who terrorised three McDonald's restaurants
on three consecutive nights offered a reprieve to scared staff last night. But
police are still hunting the masked men involved in the hold-ups as McDonald's
consider a midnight shutdown of some of its 24-hour stores.
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/victoria/axeused-to-terrorise-staff-inearly-morningkeysoborough-holdup/story-e6frf7kx1225980803236
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/nation/mcd
onalds-staff-alert-afterrobberies/story-e6frg6nf1225981733896
Amelia Harris,
AAP From:
Herald Sun
January 03,
2011 6:10AM
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/victoria/robbe
d-maccas-flags-12amshutdown/story-e6frf7kx1225982655716
Amelia Harris
From: Herald
Sun January
06, 2011
12:00AM
Staff writers
From: AAP
January 05,
2011 9:10AM
Police have increased patrols near stores in the southeastern suburbs as they
hunt bandits who struck at Cranbourne, Lynbrook and Keysborough. In the
latest holdup on Tuesday, three masked robbers entered McDonald's on the
South Gippsland Highway at Cranbourne about 11.15pm, and threatened the
seven staff in front of customers.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 50 of 110
5 January 2011
Family has anxious wait after girl steps on syringe at Maccas in
Blackburn South
A WHITEHORSE family face an anxious wait to see if their six-year-old
daughter was harmed by standing on a syringe while playing in the Blackburn
South McDonald’s play area. The little girl and her father attended the
Canterbury Rd restaurant, which is open 24 hours, on December 21 with a
group of parents and children for an end-of-year celebration.
http://whitehorseleader.whereilive.com.au
/news/story/family-hasanxious-wait-after-girlsteps-on-syringe-atmaccas-in-blackburnsouth/
By Stacy Allen
http://www.coffscoastadv
ocate.com.au/story/2011/
01/11/mcdonalds-coffsrobbery-crime/
The Advocate,
Coffs Harbour
5 Jan 11 @
08:00am
From
Whitehorse
Leader
Blackburn mother Sue, who did not want her last name published, attended the
party with her seven-year-old son and said he came to her concerned about
something in the playground. She said at first she thought he had said there
was a “beetle in the playground”, not needle, and by the time she got to the
playground the young girl had stood on it with her bare foot.
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2011 – new
since
submission
Sue said the syringe was inside the play equipment on the first level and she
was disappointed with the reaction of staff who did not seem to understand the
gravity of the situation. She said they did not search the rest of the playground
and were slow to close it off.
McDonald's heist 'well planned'
FAST food chains are on high alert on the North Coast after masked robbers
pulled off ‘a well planned and executed’ heist, robbing a security guard outside
a Coffs Harbour McDonald’s.
Eye witnesses said the bandits produced a small wooden bat during
yesterday’s brazen robbery, in full view of diners at the Park Beach restaurant
about 10am.
The security guard escaped injury but appeared visibly shaken when
interviewed by detectives.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 51 of 110
Police said the offenders made away with a bag containing weekend takings
from the restaurant.
Two men, wearing hoodies with their faces covered, were seen to confront the
guard in the restaurant car park, as he approached his vehicle.
“Someone yelled out ‘look there’s a robbery happening’,” said one witness.
“I saw a man struggling with the security guard, trying to snatch the bag, then
the other man approached with a small baseball bat.”
Another diner told police he noticed the getaway car approached as the
security guard exited the store.
“They parked next to the security vehicle and it was over in about 10 seconds –
it looked well planned and executed,” he said. “The two men jumped into a
white Commodore and they were off. There may have been a driver, but I’m
not sure, it happened so quickly.”
Police arrived on the scene within minutes of the robbery.
A crime scene was established and officers patrolled Park Beach and
elsewhere in Coffs Harbour looking for the getaway car.
Police in neighbouring centres were also alerted along with fast food chains,
amid fears the bandits could strike again.
Coffs Harbour Detective Inspector Chris Clarke said the offenders may have
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 52 of 110
staked out security pick-ups at the restaurant.
“This appears to be a well-thought-out robbery,” Insp. Clarke said.
“The offenders were seen leaving the scene in a white Holden Commodore
station wagon
“We are calling on anyone who has seen a vehicle matching that description
near the restaurant or doing laps in the area to come forward and assist police
with their investigation.”
The robbery was captured on closed-circuit security footage and the offenders
are thought to be aged in their 20s or 30s.
11 January
2011
Naked driver guilty of flashing teen
A DRIVER who exposed himself to a young McDonald's drive-thru attendant,
claimed he did not realise he was naked from the waist down, a court has
heard.
Jay Weston told police he had been to a nudist beach earlier and had simply
forgotten to put his pants on, the Geelong Advertiser said.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/naked-driver-guiltyof-flashing-teen/storyfn3dxity-1225985356006
by: By Karen
Matthews
From: Geelong
Advertiser
January 11,
2011 7:30AM
Weston, 29, of Epsom Rd, Pascoe Vale, pleaded guilty in Geelong Magistrates'
Court in Victoria yesterday to a charge of wilful and obscene exposure.
Police Prosecutor, Leading Senior Constable David Vanderpol said that, about
8pm on December 1, 2008, the victim, then aged 15, was at work at
McDonald's, Torquay.
"She was taking orders at the drive-thru when Weston drove through in a green
Mazda," he said.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 53 of 110
"He placed an order and drove forward to the victim's window to pay.
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2011
26 January
2011
"She saw that Weston had no clothing from the waist down and his genitals
were clearly visible."
A MAN has robbed a McDonald's fast food outlet in Perth at gunpoint. Police
said the robber entered the outlet at Warwick, in the city's north, around
3.30am (WST) today, pointed a handgun at an employee and demanded cash
Cowards attack disabled lung transplant teenager Lindon Crellin
Lindon Crellin is still recovering from his operation and horror ordeal at the
hands of thugs.
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Transplant teen attacked in McDonald's restaurant
Attackers knew he was recovering from operation
Outraged father accuses thugs of attempted murder
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/breakingnews/mcdonalds-robberpoints-gun-atworker/story-e6frf7jx1225991053697
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/lungsurgery-teenbashed/story-e6frg6of1225994607650
From AAP
January 19,
2011 1:02PM
by: By
Shannon
Deery
From: Herald
Sun
January 26,
2011 12:00AM
A DISABLED teen recovering from a double lung transplant was kicked in the
chest and bashed in a cowardly attack.
Lindon Crellin, 19, was at McDonald's in the Melbourne suburb of Pakenham
with friends when he was attacked.
Lindon, who has cystic fibrosis, said his attacker knew him and his medical
condition.
He said the assault happened after he started talking to the thug's former
girlfriend. He was forced to the ground, beaten and kicked in the chest.
"I was sitting down on a wooden bench with a mate when another male came
over and kicked me off the bench, in the chest, and hit me when I was on the
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 54 of 110
ground," Lindon said.
"I got back up and he pushed me back on the ground and continued to lay into
me."
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2011 – New
since
Submission
He said the attacker was with a group of friends when the assault happened
about 2am on Saturday. Because of his condition and the recent operation, he
was not in a position to defend himself.
Accused king-hitter given bail
A MAN accused of king-hitting a woman outside the Margaret Street
McDonald’s Restaurant last month finally appeared before the Toowoomba
Magistrates Court yesterday.
http://www.thechronicle.c
om.au/story/2011/02/19/
man-accused-of-kinghitting-woman-margaretstreet/
Peter
Hardwick |
19th February
2011 2:00 AM
Toowoomba
Chroncile
Michael Warren Meanwell, 41, had not shown up to court for his first scheduled
appearance on February 9, but was located by police on Thursday and
appeared in court yesterday after spending the night in the watch-house.
He was not required to enter pleas to charges of common assault, wilful
damage and three counts of public nuisance all arising from the January 19
incident.
Police claim Meanwell became enraged at the restaurant about 7.30am and
king-hit a woman from behind and scratched a parked car.
He was granted bail to appear back in the same court for mention on March 10.
22 February
2011
Teen's skull fractured in fight at McDonald's
A man accused of punching a teenager at a McDonald's restaurant, fracturing
his skull, may apply for bail today.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.brisbanetimes
.com.au/queensland/teen
s-skull-fractured-in-fightat-mcdonalds-201102221b2xc.html#ixzz2201Rq
Staff Writer
From The
Brisbane
Times
Page 55 of 110
Darryl Steven Dunbar, 31, is accused of assaulting a 19-year-old at the fast
food restaurant on Limestone Street at Ipswich, about 1.30am on Sunday.
26 February
2011 – New
since
Submission
The Riverview teenager was in a stable condition in Princess Alexandra
Hospital yesterday. Mr Dunbar was not required to appear in Ipswich
Magistrate's Court during the first mention of his case yesterday
Drive-through reject on Maccas rampage
WHEN Cyantha Mimosa Revell was refused service at a Rockhampton
McDonald's outlet she sought revenge by assaulting two staff members and
causing about $13,000 worth of damage to the store.
The then 18-year-old woman entered the McDonald's drive-through on George
Street at 12.05am on January 13 last year and was refused service for verbally
abusing staff through the speaker system.
YTI
22 February
2011
http://www.themorningbu
lletin.com.au/story/2011/
02/26/macca-attackergoes-on-13000-revengespree/
Kathryn
Greensill | 26th
February 2011
2:00 AM
Rockhampton
Morning
Bulletin
She then drove to the front window where she squirted moisturiser and spat on
the glass.
Not yet content with her revenge, Revell then parked her car and walked into
the McDonald's store and began verbally abusing the manager and another
worker.
When one of them attempted to call police Revell tore the phone from their
hands and ripped it from the wall.
She then punched another worker before heading outside to the drive-through
where she found a block of concrete and launched it at the restaurant,
smashing a window and hitting the inside countertops.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 56 of 110
All of this was caught on the store's CCTV footage.
Revell pleaded guilty to nine charges including two charges of assault
occasioning bodily harm and two charges of wilful damage in Rockhampton
Magistrate's Court yesterday.
She was also charged with three counts of breaching bail and one count of
refusing to comply with a noise eradication order and public nuisance from
another incident when her iPod was confiscated at a party and she responded
by abusing police. Defence solicitor Anthony DeFraine said Revell had been
drinking quite a bit at the time and had since stopped drinking.
He said she had a one-month-old baby that she was breastfeeding and was
undertaking a course in IT. He asked that Magistrate Cameron Press consider
a suspended sentence or immediate parole and sentence actual prison time as
a last resort.
Mr Press said that Revell's conduct was “simply unacceptable” and required a
significant penalty.
He sentenced her to a $1000 fine for the lesser five charges, a three-month
suspended sentence for the assaults and 220 hours of community service for
the wilful damage.
She was also ordered to pay $13,295.12 restitution to McDonald's.
28 February
2011
AN overnight fire at a Rockhampton McDonald's is being treated as suspicious.
Police said the blaze broke out at the back of the restaurant, on the corner of
George and Fitzroy Streets, at around 1:20am this morning.
A Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said the fire was confined to
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.couriermail.co
m.au/news/queensland/p
olice-say-rockhamptonmcdonalds-bin-firesuspicious/story-
Anthony
Gough From:
The CourierMail February
28, 2011
Page 57 of 110
8 March 2011 New since
submission
the bin area at the back of the restaurant and was brought under control just
after 1:30am by two fire crews.
POLICE are hunting a masked bandit who tried to rob a McDonald's
restaurant in Launceston early this morning.
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http://www.themercury.c
om.au/article/2011/03/08
/212745_tasmaniaShortly after midnight a person went to McDonald's Kings Meadows armed with news.html
a firearm.
8:43AM
BLAIR
RICHARDS |
March 08,
2011 10.31am
After attempting to enter the restaurant through the locked external doors the
person tapped on the glass with the barrel of the gun and pointed at staff to
open the door.
Staff moved to a safe area at the rear of the kitchen and called police.
The person left after the unsuccessful robbery attempt.
The offender is described as being 155cm tall, of slim build, wearing baggy
blue jeans, black skate shoes and a blue/grey long sleeve jumper. Police are
not assuming at this stage that the offender was either a male or female.
Launceston CIB detectives attended the scene soon after the attempted
robbery was reported and are appealing for witnesses to help identify the
offender.
29 March 2011
Tourists bashed at Tullamarine McDonald's
TWO Irish tourists are recovering from a brutal attack by a large group at a
Tullamarine McDonalds store earlier this month.
The pair were standing at the counter of a McDonald’s store on Mickleham Rd,
on Friday, March 4, at 3.30am, when they were approached by a group of up to
10 people aged from their late teens to their mid-30s. Police said a brawl
started when a female teenager began yelling at the victims as the rest of the
group closed in. The female struck one of the victims several times before the
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://brimbankleader.whereilive.com.au
/news/story/touristsbashed-at-tullamarinemcdonalds/
By Shannon
Nagyivan 29
Mar 11 @
10:28am
From
Brimbank
Leader
Page 58 of 110
1 April 2011
rest of the group joined in, hitting and kicking the tourists. Cutlery, plates and
other restaurant items were also used in the attack.
Man bashed unconscious at McDonald's in Thomastown.
Vicious attack at a fast food restaurant that left a young man unconscious for
20 minutes. The 22-year-old man was with a group of friends at the
McDonald's restaurant in Thomastown when a fight was started with another
group of males about 3.30am.
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/man-bashedunconscious-at-fastfood-restaurant-inthomastown/storye6frf7jo-1226031754550
Shannon
Deery, From:
Herald Sun,
April 01, 2011
7:43AM
https://vic.crimestoppers.
com.au/node/13683
Crime
Stoppers
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/manstabbed-five-times-onstreet-in-geelong/storye6frf7jo-1226033145879
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/morenews/teen-bashed-atmcdonalds-inprahran/story-fn7x8me2-
Jane Harper,
From: Geelong
Advertiser,
April 04, 2011
9:51AM
Amelia Harris,
From: Herald
Sun, April 08,
2011 7:58AM
The victim was knocked unconscious his attackers fled the scene.
An Ambulance Victoria spokesman said the man was unconscious for 20
minutes after the assault.
3 April 2011
Armed Robbery - McDonalds - Waverley Road - Malvern East - 3 April
2011
At about 10:10pm on 3 April 2011 a man entered McDonalds on Waverley
Road, Malvern East and approached the service counter.
The man allegedly produced a screwdriver, threatened a staff member and
made demands for a burger and cash. before
4 April 2011
The man stole cash from one of the tills before exiting the store through the car
park.
Man stabbed five times on street in Geelong.
8 April 2011
A MAN was stabbed five times in a sickening knife attack in Geelong's CBD
after a fight broke out in the early hours between strangers outside
McDonald’s, Ryrie Street, Geelong.
Teen bashed at McDonald's in Prahran
A TEENAGER was assaulted during an early morning attack at a McDonald's.
Emergency crews were called to the fast food outlet on the corner of Williams
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 59 of 110
17 April 2011
and Malvern roads, Prahran, to treat the 18-year-old about 4am. An
Ambulance Victoria spokesman said the teen suffered bruising and swelling to
the upper body. Heraldsun.com.au understands the boy suffered a bump to the
back of his head and a minor cut to his lip. Bystanders said he was
unconscious for about 40 seconds.
Car thief threatens motorist with syringe
A WOMAN has threatened a motorist with a syringe before stealing her car and
crashing it in Melbourne's southeast.
The 19-year-old entered a McDonald's store at Elsternwick at 12.40am (AEST)
today and confronted a woman at the fast-food restaurant.
1226035772549
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/car-thief-threatensmotorist-withsyringe/story-fn3dxity1226040368915
From: AAP
http://www.dailymercur
y.com.au/story/2011/04/
20/stalled-driver-alertssuspicions/
Bruce Mckean
| 20th April
2011 2:00 AM
April 17, 2011
7:52AM
She said she had a syringe and demanded the keys to the woman's Ford
Falcon.
She stole the car and crashed it five minutes later, hitting two parked cars at
Acland and Irwell Streets in St Kilda.
20 April 2011 –
New since
submission
The Prahran woman was arrested and charged with armed robbery and car
theft.
Stalled driver alerts suspicions
WHEN a car stalled several times in the drive-through at McDonald’s police got
a suspicious.
They approached the driver to see if they could “assist” him and discovered he
Mackay Daily
Mercury
was drunk.
Lina Delos Santos, a 26-year-old welder, pleaded guilty in the Mackay
Magistrate’s Court yesterday to drink-driving (0.157%) in the McDonald’s
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 60 of 110
Restaurant car park on April 1.
Police were on patrol in Shakespeare St at 11.30 at night and saw a blue
sedan drive into McDonald’s at the corner of Shakespeare and Sydney Sts,
police prosecutor Bimal Raut said.
Officers kept an eye on the vehicle and noticed that, after the driver was
served, the car stalled several times as he was trying to drive away.
Police approached the driver and knocked on the car window to see if they
could assist him, Mr Raut said.
Officers noticed a strong smell of liquor and Santos was rocking backwards
and forwards in the driver’s seat.
His eyes were red and his speech was slurred.
Police told him to get out but instead he jumped over into the back seat.
Police then opened the car doors and assisted him to get out.
He was taken to the police station where his reading was three times the legal
limit.
Duty solicitor Stephen Hayles, of Macrossan & Amiet, said Santos was new to
Mackay and had come here to work at Paget.
Santos expressed his regret at the incident and the hurt it would have on his
family, particularly because his wife could not drive, Mr Hayles said.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 61 of 110
Santos was fined $1200 and was disqualified from driving for 10 months.
Officers noticed a strong smell of liquor and Santos was rocking backwards
and forwards in the driver’s seat.
28 April 2011
Bandits pointing a shotgun at a young McDonalds worker.
Two men in a stolen black car entered the drive-through of the hamburger
chain's Pacific Pines restaurant about 3pm and pointed the gun at a teenage
female employee.
They demanded money before driving off with an undisclosed sum.
14 May 2011 –
New since
Submission
Police said the young woman was terrorised. She was in tears as detectives
interviewed her.
Fast food walk-thru's dangerous
DRUNKEN 2am munchies are leading McDonald’s patrons on a dangerous
path, as they opt to walk through the drive-through facility to cure their latenight hunger pangs.
http://www.couriermail.co
m.au/news/queensland/a
rmed-robberies-on-goldcoast-in-a-month-aftermcdonalds-holdup/story-e6freoof1226046431311
by Greg Stolz
From: The
Courier-Mail
April 28, 2011
5:18PM
http://www.warwickdailyn
ews.com.au/story/2011/0
5/14/fast-food-walkthrough-dangerous/
Kerri BurnsTaylor | 14th
May 2011 2:00
AM
The Warwick
Daily News
An Edgeworth NSW man who travelled through Warwick for the first time
earlier this month said he was shocked to enter McDonald’s drive-through to be
confronted by what he describes as a “large group of hooligans”.
Robert Gregg said his first impression of Warwick was tainted by the unruly
group, which he said was comprised of “15-20 drunken young men and girls”.
Mr Gregg said he and other patrons in cars were ignored while the staff
catered to the ambling crowd.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 62 of 110
“When we finally got down to the window we were surrounded by the drunks –
it was an absolute disgrace,” he said.
“It was a scary situation – I was quite petrified,” he said
Despite it taking 10 minutes for Mr Gregg to make it to the window behind the
group, he said it took another 10 minutes for somebody to come to the window
to serve him.
Police arrived while Mr Gregg was there and said he heard one member of the
group obscenely ask one of his cohorts what police were doing there.
“We were quite relieved when the police arrived but the security guard told
them to go away and they got back in their car and left,” Mr Gregg said.
At that point he left and visited Hungry Jack’s instead.
The following day Mr Gregg called the restaurant and said he was presented
with a manager who appeared to be “quite arrogant” and “implied it was
common practice” to serve walking customers at the drive-through.
“The manager seemed to take the attitude they could serve whoever they
wanted to, because they have a security guard there,” he said.
“He just kept asking “what can I give you?” I wasn’t ringing for anything, I just
thought it wasn’t good enough and there was a safety concern,” he said.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 63 of 110
Mr Gregg was contacted by the franchisee who Mr Gregg said seemed
surprised the walking customers had been served.
A McDonald’s spokeswoman this week confirmed it was against company
policy to serve customers on foot at the drive-through window, as it was a
health and safety concern.
The spokeswoman said the company was aware of Mr Gregg’s complaint and
said it had been settled between Mr Gregg and the franchisee.
Mr Gregg said he was given the opportunity to meet with the franchisee upon
his next visit to the Rose City but said he wasn’t too excited about that prospect
as he was sure there were a lot nicer things to see in Warwick.
Warwick Police Senior Constable Clayton Binney said the area was popular
with pub patrons once the alcohol stopped flowing at the end of the night, but
said problems were rare.
“It’s generally the place people go after the pubs close,” Snr Con Binney said.
“There haven’t been too many dramas because they have their own security.”
17 May 2011
Knives used in Warnbro restaurant robbery.
TWO thugs used knives to threaten staff at a fast-food restaurant during a
robbery this morning. The armed bandits walked into the McDonalds restaurant
on Warnbro Sound Avenue in Warnbro just before 2.30am and demanded
money.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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m.au/news/morenews/same-mensuspected-of-armedattacks-on-threemcdonalds-restaurantsin-westernsuburbs/story-fn7x8me2-
Phil Hickey,
From:
PerthNow,
May 17, 2011
5:51AM
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26 May 2011
A MAN charged with a fatal shooting at a Gold Coast McDonald's restaurant
has been refused bail. Samuel Mark Friedman, 26, of Surfers Paradise, was
arrested in August 2009 and charged with murdering 34-year-old Richard
Doherty and unlawfully wounding 26-year-old Ben Matthews at Burleigh Heads
earlier that month.
29 May 2011
SICKENING, unprovoked attack on a man in a McDonald's Noble Park caught
on CCTV shows customers walking over pools of his blood to order burgers.
The footage shows a brief but savage attack on tradesman Peter - who does
not want his surname used - at the counter. The assailant wielded a long, thick
marble pole and hit the 44-year-old from behind.
1 June 2011 –
New since
submission
Hungry teens take joyride to Maccas
A group of teenage boys have been caught taking a joyride in a shopping
buggy in search of a McDonald's, police say.
Police said six boys, aged between 15 and 17, went to Tuggerah Westfield, on
the NSW central coast, yesterday afternoon and took a shopping buggy for a
ride.
http://www.heraldsun.co
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http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/morenews/bloody-bashingbetween-burgers/storyfn7x8me21226064754641
From AAP
May 26, 2011
1:15PM
http://www.theherald.co
m.au/news/national/natio
nal/general/hungryteens-take-joyride-tomaccas/2182036.aspx
STEPHANIE
GARDINER
01 Jun, 2011
01:41 PM
Sue Hewitt
From: Sunday
Herald Sun
May 29, 2011
12:00AM
Newcastle
Herald
They took turns at driving the motorised cart, normally used by the shopping
centre's security and to ferry elderly people to and from their cars, before they
were spotted at Tumbi Umbi, about 10 kilometres away, police said.
Tuggerah police duty officer, acting Inspector Chevonne Greene, said the boys
had driven the cart along a cycleway.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 65 of 110
"They went through McDonald's drive through," acting Inspector Greene said.
Police said the boys ran away from officers, but were caught after a short
chase.
Three of the boys were dealt with under the Young Offenders Act, while a 16year-old was charged with shoplifting and "take and drive conveyance".
He was given conditional bail and will appear at Wyong Children's Court on
July 5.
8 June 2011
17 June 2011
A spokeswoman for Westfield said the cart, which is not designed to be driven
outside, had been returned to the shopping centre.
Man hurt in machete attack at Maccas.
A MAN has been assaulted with a machete at McDonald's in Tuart Hill this
afternoon, in an apparent argument over drugs.
http://www.perthnow.com
.au/news/westernaustralia/man-hurt-inmachete-attack-atmaccas/story-e6frg1431226071915243
Nicole Cox,
police reporter
From:
PerthNow
June 08, 2011
4:27PM
Cabbie bashed at McDonald's drive-in over $11 fare
http://www.heraldsun.co
A MAN is in custody after allegedly bashing a taxi driver in the drive-through of
a McDonald's over an $11 fare.
m.au/news/national/cabb
A police spokesman said the 53-year-old taxi driver was taking his 22-year-old
passenger from, Mirani, near through the drive-through of a McDonald’s on
Sydney Street in Mackay about 3.20am Friday when an argument broke out
about the taxi fare.
drive-in-over-11-
By Jodie
Munro O'Brien
From: The
Courier-Mail
June 17, 2011
8:57AM
ie-bashed-at-mcdonalds-
fare/story-e6frf7l61226076873261
He said the younger man stated he did not have any money to pay the $11 fare
and after a dispute broke out he started punching the cabbie in the head.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 66 of 110
McDonald’s employees called police who arrested a man.
4 July 2011
MCDONALD'S store manager was viciously bashed with a hammer and a
young female worker terrorised with a machete during an overnight robbery in
Melbourne. THREE teenagers from Melbourne's north have been charged over
an armed robbery in which a McDonald's store manager was bashed with a
hammer. Two 18-year-olds from Dallas, and a 15-year-old boy from
Craigieburn were arrested by police yesterday over the incident at the Laverton
North restaurant at 1.35am on Monday, July 4.
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/teens-toface-court/story-e6frf7jo1226091459161
Adrian
Bernecich
From: Sunday
Herald Sun
July 10, 2011
12:00AM
7 July 2011 –
New since
Submission
Fur coat starts girl fight
http://www.sunshinecoas
tdaily.com.au/story/2011/
07/07/a-fur-coat-was-thecatalyst-for-two-17-yearold-gi/
Sunshine
Coast Daily
A FUR coat was the catalyst for two 17-year-old girls to launch a vicious attack
on a 16-year-old girl at Mooloolaba McDonald's.
Tricia Beverley Lopez claims she was so drunk that she barely remembers the
night she ripped clumps of hair from the girl's head and punched her in the
face.
Ms Lopez told police she suffered from “explosions of rage” when affected by
alcohol.
“She is underage and should not have been drinking alcohol,” police
prosecutor Melissa Campbell told Maroochydore Magistrates Court yesterday.
“This was an unprovoked attack on someone who did everything to get away.”
Senior Constable Campbell said Ms Lopez and her friend were standing
behind the 16-year-old student while she was ordering food about 11.30pm on
April 24.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 67 of 110
She said the girls started picking on the girl's fur coat and calling her “a stupid
blonde bitch”.
“She positioned herself behind the McDonald's counter in an effort to create a
barrier,” Snr Const Campbell said.
She said the younger girl told them she would not fight and tried to push past.
Ms Lopez pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm in company for
grabbing the girl's hair and punching her in the face.
When the girl fell to the ground, Ms Lopez continued hitting her while her coaccused, Emily Kate Pendleton, allegedly kicked her.
A warrant is out for Ms Pendleton's arrest after she failed to appear in court on
Tuesday.
Snr Const Campbell said the girl was lying in the foetal position and screaming
out for her attackers to stop. Clumps of hair were falling out when the girl got to
the police beat office.
Magistrate Robert Quinlan ordered Ms Lopez to complete 18 months of
probation and pay $500 compensation.
“This is a terrible assault which the community would frown upon,” Mr Quinlan
said. “If that was my daughter who was assaulted, I would be enraged and I
imagine her parents would be, too.”
14 July 2011 –
New since
Court frees crime crew
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.sunshinecoas
tdaily.com.au/story/2011/
07/14/court-frees-crime-
Rae Wilson |
14th July 2011
Page 68 of 110
Submission
AN ORGANISED gang of young people has been meeting at least four nights a crew-sunshine-coast/
week to “systematically” scour streets for unlocked cars and accessible petrol
tanks on boats.
2:00 AM
Sunshine
Coast Daily
The group met at McDonald’s Currimundi or Kawana 7-Eleven about midnight
before driving to various locations and working as a team to steal cash, iPods,
GPS instruments and CDs from cars.
Using mobile phones as torches, some would enter unlocked cars while others
kept an eye out for house lights or cars entering the street they had chosen.
Despite their crime spree, two of them walked free yesterday.
Ryan David Wherry, 19, and Joshua David Ferris, 18, pleaded guilty in
Maroochydore Magistrates Court to their involvement in the crew.
They received probation orders of two years and 18 months respectively.
The crew would target up to 70 cars a night.
THEY would steal between $5 and $75 in coins or from wallets.
Ferris, who had no criminal history, told police he had been involved in about
160 car break-ins, entering 30 to 50 cars himself. He said he met the group
four times a week.
Wherry said he met with the group about once a week for the midnight to 2am
spree.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 69 of 110
He also stole at least three tanks of petrol from boats but had approached
another seven or eight.
He would pour the siphoned fuel into his own car.
Wherry also tried to break into Team Moto Kawasaki at Maroochydore two
nights in a row, hoping to steal a motorcycle, but kept setting off alarms and
fled.
He did succeed in stealing a motorcycle from a garden shed.
Wherry also stole two wheels from a paramedic vehicle parked in the driveway
of the user’s home because he had a flat tyre.
The driver found the rear of the car sitting on blocks of wood.
Wherry also caused havoc at construction sites at Little Mountain and
Mountain Creek.
He and his mates caused $3575 damage at one site when he smashed
through a wall of 158 waffle pods his friends built. He fled when his friends set
fire to them.
Wherry also caused $250 damage to a Birtinya park doing donuts and
burnouts, and caused unnecessary smoke doing burnouts in Warana.
Solicitor Michael Robinson said Wherry left his family and fell in with the wrong
crowd for six weeks.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 70 of 110
“He fell into a lifestyle centred around cars, going out late at night, cruising and
committing offences,” Mr Robinson said. “But he’s just been accepted as a
first-year motor mechanic apprentice.”
Magistrate Dennis Buetel said he could tell by Wherry’s demeanour in court
that he was ashamed of his behaviour.
He ordered him to pay $250 for damage to the park.
18 July 2011
POLICE have released CCTV footage of three men wanted for questioning
over a brutal attack on an off-duty police officer outside a McDonald’s in Perth.
27 July 2011
Up to four members of staff injured in robbery at Myaree restaurant.
UP to four members of staff at a fast food restaurant were injured this morning
during a terrifying armed robbery. Police have confirmed several staff at the
McDonalds restaurant in Myaree were injured during a robbery at the store at
about 4am.
3 August 2011
– New since
Submission
Teen gang attacks Maccas
A YOUNG McDonald's worker was left nursing cuts, bruises and a dislocated
shoulder after being attacked by a group of about nine youths during a late
night shift.
Teej Lloyd Williams, 17, was among the group, who were of similar ages, and
though he didn't know his victim, he joined in the assault, using his belt as a
weapon.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.perthnow.com
.au/cctv-clue-to-policebashing-outsidemcdonalds/storyfn8ou5271226097106122
http://www.perthnow.com
.au/up-to-four-maccasstaff-injured-in-robberyat-myareeresteraunt/storyfn8ou5271226102468457
http://www.themorningbu
lletin.com.au/story/2011/
08/03/teen-gangs-attackleaves-mcdonaldsstaffer-injured/
Ashlee
Mullany. From:
PerthNow, July
18, 2011
6:27PM
Phil Hickey
From:
PerthNow,
July 27, 2011
8:19PM
Kathryn
Greensill | 3rd
August 2011
2:00 AM
Rockhampton
Morning
Bulletim
Page 71 of 110
The Rockhampton teenager pleaded guilty in the Rockhampton Magistrates
Court on Monday to a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm while armed
and in company.
About 2am on November 14 last year Williams was among the group that
visited McDonald's on George St in Rockhampton.
The restaurant was closed but the drive through was open and the group
entered the drive on foot.
They banged on the window and were asked to leave before a young
employee came outside the restaurant.
The employee was known to one of the group and a fight broke out before
Williams took of his belt and swung it at the victim, the metal buckle hitting his
collar bone before breaking off the belt.
Other members of the group continued to kick and punch the victim on the
ground before other employees managed to bring him back inside the
restaurant.
The group then attacked the restaurant and Williams planted a couple of kicks
on a window before another in the group smashed it.
Williams was held responsible for lacerations and bruising to the young man's
collar bone.
Solicitor Lance Rundle submitted a reference from Williams's employer, an
aged-care centre, to the court which said the organisation was aware of the
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 72 of 110
incident but believed Williams was remorseful.
Mr Rundle said Williams would continue in this employment and would also
undertake study to become an aged-care nurse.
He said Williams was not intoxicated at the time and had since matured a great
deal and was no longer associated with the same group of people.
Magistrate Annette Hennessy condemned Williams's behaviour.
“People who work late nights should not have to be afraid that this will happen
to them,” Ms Hennessy said.
“If you had any history of violence this could send you to jail for some years.”
She ordered he pay $500 in compensation and sentenced him to 18 months
probation but did not record a conviction.
Mr Rundle said he was happy with the result and that he believed it was
Williams's youth and career prospects that had stopped him getting a heavier
sentence.
4 August 2011
A MAN has been jailed for two years after a trip to the drive-thru resulted in
abuse of staff, an injured pedestrian, a rammed car, racial abuse and him
being severely bashed.
The Brisbane District Court was told Adam Joseph French rammed his vehicle
into another car, whose occupants were waiting to be served, and sent it
hurtling into two 18-year-old female pedestrians at the Browns Plains
McDonald's, 25kms south of Brisbane, on October 25, 2008.
The court was told French, then aged 25, became enraged after an argument
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/ipad/macca-fracasleads-to-courtappearance/storyfn6bfm6w1226108499218
Tony Keim,
From: The
Courier-Mail ,
August 04,
2011 2:00PM
http://www.couriermail.co
m.au/news/queensland/a
dam-joseph-french-
Page 73 of 110
with a McDonald's employee over menu availability via the drive-thru "voicebox'', was then refused service and ordered to drive through about 3am.
15 August 2011
Prosecutor David Nardone said French tried to drive through, but became even
more aggravated and hurled racial abuse and taunts at a carload of Samoan
nationals, who were stopped at a service window waiting to collect their food
order.
TWO men armed with a machete have robbed a McDonalds restaurant in
Sydney's north west overnight. The two men entered the 24-hour restaurant on
Pennant Hills Road in Thornleigh about 1.20am on Monday.
17 August 2011
NATIONAL television broadcaster SBS has been banned from obtaining
footage of an elite Queensland police tactical response officer behaving in a
lewd manner near a passed-out fellow officer at the Kingaroy McDonald's,
200km northwest of Brisbane, on March 22 last year.
23 August 2011
Benji Marshall punched man after taunt Lockyer was a better player,
court hears
A MAN was punched by NRL star Benji Marshall after saying Broncos player
Darren Lockyer was better than him, a Sydney magistrate has heard.
Soliman Naimey said he had been with friends at a McDonald's restaurant on
George Street in Sydney's CBD in the early hours of March 5 this year.
rammed-a-car-injuringtwo-pedestrians-andwas-then-bashed-bygroup-of-samoans-heracially-abused/storye6freoof-1226108283176
http://www.dailytelegraph
.com.au/news/men-withmachete-rob-mcdonaldsrestuarant-inthornleigh/storye6freuy91226114938676
Staff Writer
From: The
Daily
Telegraph
August 15,
2011 6:24AM
http://www.couriermail.co
m.au/news/queensland/s
bs-banned-from-seekingfootage-of-queenslandpolice-officers-lewddance-at-kingaroy/storye6freoof-1226116257763
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/nation/benj
i-marshall-punched-manafter-taunt-lockyer-wasa-better-player-courthears/story-e6frg6nf1226120400266
Tony Keim
From: The
Courier-Mail
August 17,
2011 12:00AM
by: UPDATED
From: AAP
August 23,
2011 5:23PM
After a while, he heard someone say "Benji is outside" and he knew this to
mean the football player, as one of his friends was a West Tigers supporter, he
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 74 of 110
said.
Mr Naimey was giving evidence on Tuesday in the Downing Centre Local
Court.
The West Tigers star and New Zealand captain is charged with assaulting Mr
Naimey, occasioning actual bodily harm.
30 August 2011
Mr Naimey said he had earlier been drinking at the Tank nightclub before going
to the fast-food outlet.
Mirrabooka detectives are also appealing for information in relation to an
aggravated robbery at McDonalds in Mirrabooka early on Friday morning.
Senior Constable Naomi Smith said a man entered the store at 4.55am,
demanding cash from a female staff member before punching and kicking her
in the back.
http://www.watoday.com.
au/wa-news/maylandscafe-owner-robbed-atknifepoint-201108301jj2f.html#ixzz21yXUWJ
HG
By Lucy
Rickard
http://www.heraldsun.co
m.au/news/morenews/same-mensuspected-of-armedattacks-on-threemcdonalds-restaurantsin-westernsuburbs/story-fn7x8me21226125907268
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breaking-
Angus
Thompson,
From: Herald
Sun, August
31, 2011
12:00AM
From WA
Today 30
August 2011
The man then forced the woman and a male colleague into an office where he
continued to threaten them.
31 August 2011
14 September
2011
The offender smashed his way through the front glass doors to the stare before
approaching a third staff member in the car park, demanding they hand over
car keys.
Same men suspected of armed attacks on three McDonald's restaurants
in western suburbs.
POLICE suspect the same men were involved in a hat-trick of armed robberies
on two western suburbs McDonald's restaurants in recent months. Staff at
McDonald's on Taylors Rd in Delahey were forced to hand over cash when two
men threatened them with knives in the early hours of May 15. McDonald's on
St Albans Rd, St Albans, was robbed on May 20 and July 15 by two men
wielding knives.
Thieves rob Merrylands McDonald's armed with a gun
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
by: By Lillian
Page 75 of 110
POLICE are hunting two bandits who robbed a McDonald's store in Sydney's
west armed with a firearm this morning.
The two thieves approached the drive-thru window of the restaurant on
Merrylands Rd, Merrylands at 1am (AEST).
news/mcbandits-robmerrylands-mcdonaldsarmed-with-a-gun/storyfn3dxity-1226136536491
One of the men approached the window and threatrened a worker with the
firearm before demanding cash.
19 September
2011 – New
since
Submission
Father's Day outing ends in court
A WOMAN who crashed her car while drunk at a McDonald's drive through
said she was on her way to buy her husband a special meal for Father's Day.
Saleh
From: The
Daily
Telegraph
September 14,
2011 8:54AM
http://www.qt.com.au/sto
ry/2011/09/19/fathersday-outing-ends-court/
The
Queensland
Times
Ipswich Magistrates Court heard Roisin Logan, 38, had drunk several large
glasses of cask wine by 11am on September 4 to celebrate her birthday, which
had been the day before.
When police were called to investigate the accident at the Goodna McDonald's
Logan returned a breath sample of 0.235.
"It was a very stupid, irresponsible thing to do," Logan told Magistrate Michael
Quinn.
"I had been driving to McDonald's to do something nice for my husband for
Father's Day."
Mr Quinn said Logan constituted a real danger to other members of society,
especially behind the wheel of what he called a "dangerous weapon".
Logan was fined $1200 and disqualified from driving for 16 months.
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 76 of 110
19 September
2011
MCBANDITS who robbed a western Sydney McDonalds last week have
struck again - robbing the same restaurant again last night.
Police were called to the Merrylands store after a masked man armed with a
shortened double-barrel shotgun threatened a 21-year-old employee in the
drive-through window about 11.25pm.
http://www.dailytelegraph
.com.au/news/sydneynews/mcbandits-robsame-mcdonalds-storeagain/story-e6freuzi1226140478230
Melton: Maccas run proves costly for learner driver
A HUNGRY learner driver got more than he ordered after he was busted with
six passengers, including one hiding in the boot, at a Melton McDonald’s drivethrough last Monday.
From: The
Daily
Telegraph
September 19,
2011 7:14AM
Witnesses told police the man pointed the gun through the window and
demanded cash, before helping himself to the money in the till and fleeing the
scene on foot.
New Since
Submission - 22
September
2011
Nathan Klein
http://meltonleader.whereilive.com.au
/news/story/meltonmaccas-run-provescostly-for-learner-driver/
22 Sep 11 @
09:56am by
Liam McAleer
Police say all seven occupants in the car were not wearing seatbelts and there
was no experienced driver in the Ford Focus when it was intercepted at
6.25pm.
“Police received a call from a member of the public that a vehicle in the
McDonald’s car park had a large number of youths in it, including one riding in
the boot of the vehicle,’’ Melton Highway Patrol’s Leading Sen-Constable Allan
Edwards said.
“There were four passengers in the rear seat, none of whom were wearing seat
belts, and another youth in the boot area. `
“And the front seat passenger was also not wearing a seat belt.’‘
The driver will be charged on summons with several traffic offences, while five
of the passengers received infringement notices for failing to wear a seat belt.
The youth in the boot was issued a fine for travelling in a part of a vehicle
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 77 of 110
designed for the carriage of goods.
28 September
2011
Girl chews on condom found at McDonald's
A FATHER of a two-year-old girl says he was "absolutely disgusted" to find his
child chewing on a used condom she picked up in a McDonald's playground. A
spokeswoman for McDonald's said the company is investigating the incident at
the fast-food chain's Geraldton outlet in Western Australia's mid-west. The
father was eating lunch at the restaurant on Saturday when his infant daughter
came out of the playground with a used condom in her mouth.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/girl-chews-oncondom-found-atmcdonalds/storyfn3dxity-1226148951127
From AAP
http://www.canberratime
s.com.au/act-news/largeknives-used-inattempted-robbery201109281wqhv.html#ixzz21yMhm
ppp
Staff Writers,
September 28,
2011 10:42AM
"I was absolutely disgusted. Other people grabbed their kids and just about
jumped the fence," the father told The West Australian newspaper.
28 September
2011
28 September
2011 – done on
30 Sept
reported on 27
October 2011
actually
2 October 2011
The man said he washed the girl's hands and mouth with soap and would
continue to monitor her health.
'Large knives' used in attempted robbery
Two men attempted to rob the McDonalds Erindale store at knifepoint early this
morning , police say. One of the men allegedly got into the McDonalds store
through a back entrance about 4.30am, and then ran to the front door to let a
second man in. Police say both men were carrying large knives. They
demanded that staff hand over cash from the store's cash register's.
Police allege the youth started a fire in a hedge at the McDonalds
restaurant in Greenway on September 30.
The fire destroyed the hedge but caused no damage to any nearby buildings
before being extinguished by the ACT Fire Brigade.
ACT Policing's Crime Response Team arrested and charged the teen on one
count of arson and two of property damage.
ARMED ROBBERY - ROBERT STREET WINTHROP WA - 02 OCT 2011
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.canberratime
s.com.au/act-news/teencharged-for-spate-ofarson-attacks-201110271v5or.html#ixzz21yPAB
meJ
https://wa.crimestoppers.
From The
Canberra
Times
September 28,
2011
Staff Writers
From The
Canberra
Times
September 28,
2011
Crime
Page 78 of 110
Detectives are investigating a violent robbery where a 15 year old boy was
assaulted and robbed following an early morning snack at McDonalds.
Around 3.15am on Sunday the 2nd of October 2011, the youth and two friends
had just been to McDonalds on Leach Highway and were walking in the
direction of Willagee when three males chased the trio through the Robert
Street park in Winthrop. The group caught up with one of the males and
violently wrestled him to the ground punching him about the body before
holding a knife to his throat and demanding his mobile telephone.
4 October 2011
As a result of the attack the male suffered a swollen lip and several lacerations
courtesy of his dental braces.
Real-life Hamburglar wanted more than fries with hold-up
A TEENAGE robber didn't respond to an upsize offer last night when he held
up a McDonald's restaurant with a knife.
The 13-year-old boy was offered $10 and a burger when he threatened staff in
Launceston, Tasmania but allegedly held out for $50, The Mercury reported.
com.au/help_solve_crim
e/unsolved_cases/robber
y/armed-robbery-robertstreet-winthrop-wa-02oct-2011
Stoppers
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/real-lifehamburglar-wantedmore-than-fries-withhold-up/story-fn3dxity1226158302090
From:
news.com.au
http://www.qt.com.au/sto
ry/2011/10/18/mcdonalds
-sex-row-led-to-savageassault/
The
Queensland
Times
October 04,
2011 5:17PM
Police arrived soon after and witnesses say the teen continued to bargain with
staff.
Detective Inspector Scott Flude said the alleged armed robber entered the
South Launceston spot at 10pm AEDT and demanded food and cash, telling
staff he had a knife.
18 October
2011 – New
since
submission
The offender also threatened patrons, say police. The teenager was arrested
after staff raised the alarm.
Sex row led to savage assault
A MAN left another man with permanent disabilities after an assault in a
McDonald's carpark because he thought the victim was having sex in the
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
Page 79 of 110
restaurant toilet.
Darryl Steven Dunbar, 31, punched the victim in the head outside the Ipswich
McDonald's. The man fell back and witnesses heard his head crack as it
connected with the pavement.
The 20-year-old victim was taken to hospital with a fractured skull and head
injuries and was in an induced coma for four days.
He has been left with permanent disabilities including memory loss and the
early onset of epilepsy and needs a full-time carer.
Ipswich District Court heard the victim and his girlfriend were at the restaurant
in the early hours of February 20 when they used the disabled toilet together
because the other toilets were locked.
People waiting in the toilet line outside began to think the pair was having sex.
Crown Prosecutor John Copley said when the pair exited a "blond-headed
woman" and Dunbar became aggressive and accused the couple of having
sex.
Witnesses saw the couple walk through the carpark when the victim's girlfriend
raced back to Dunbar and punched him three times in the head.
Dunbar said "I don't hit women" and walked up to the victim and punched him
once.
Defence barrister Geoff Seaholme said Dunbar had a 28-page criminal history
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but had not gone out that night with the intention to hurt anyone.
"He hadn't gone looking for trouble - it came to him," Mr Seaholme said.
"He came to Queensland to get a new start and was enrolled to study
behavioural science at USQ next semester."
Dunbar pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and two unrelated offences of
public nuisance and carrying a knife in public.
He was sentenced to three years jail. With time already spent in custody, he
will be released on parole on February 22 next year.
Judge Deborah Richards said the punch had a devastating impact on the
victim, his now-fiancee and their families.
"I accept you didn't go out to commit violence but that is no excuse," she said.
19 October
2011
Stun gun shooting at Caringbah McDonald's
A TEENAGER is in police custody after shooting someone with a stun gun
near a Sydney McDonald's restaurant this morning.
Police and paramedics were called to the Caringbah McDonald's following
triple-0 calls that a young male had been shot.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/stun-gunshooting-atmaccas/story-e6frg6o61226170479464
From: The
Daily
Telegraph
October 19,
2011 11:10AM
When authorities arrived they found the young male victim conscious and
breathing and not suffering any injuries.
Police located the shooter a short time later. A NSW Police spokesman said
the teenage offender was now in police custody assisting officers with their
inquiries.
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
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25 October
2011
Amateur model Rebecca Leigh Crimmins dodges jail for tampon assault,
arguing it was 'a prank gone wrong'
A SUNSHINE Coast barmaid who assaulted a McDonalds drive-through
attendant with a wet tampon in a "prank gone terribly wrong" has faced court.
Rebecca Leigh Crimmins pleaded guilty to common assault in the Noosa
Magistrates Court Tuesday morning after a drunken prank at the Noosaville
McDonalds in September.
http://www.dailytelegraph
.com.au/archive/nationalold/amateur-modeldodges-jail-for-tamponassault-arguing-it-was-aprank-gone-wrong/storye6freuzr-1226176444827
By Kristin
Shorten
http://www.sunshinecoas
tdaily.com.au/story/2011/
10/26/bikie-allegedlyspat-on-worker-policebandidos/
Sunshine
Coast Daily
From: The
Courier-Mail
October 25,
2011 4:43PM
The court heard Crimmins, 27, had been drinking before the early-morning
incident, in which she dabbed a McDonald's worker's hand with a wet tampon,
before throwing it at him.
26 October
2011 – New
since
Submission
Police prosecutor Leanne Chawner said Crimmins was the passenger of a
4WD which went through the McDonald's drive through about 3am on
September 25.
Bikie allegedly spat on worker
A FORMER high ranking Bandidos member is facing potential assault charges
after he allegedly made threats to a 20-year-old McDonald's employee and
then spat in his face, according to police.
The 38-year-old man, believed to be a former Gold Coast branch president of
the outlaw bikie gang, was one of several hundred Bandidos who were on the
Sunshine Coast for their annual ride.
The Daily understands the Bandidos man and a blonde woman walked through
the drive-through section of the McDonald's store on Bowman Road about
12.45am on Monday October 24.
Sources said that the man attempted to order food but was refused service and
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directed to come into the restaurant.
"When he was refused service he then made some veiled threats to the duty
manager, referring to the fact he was at a resort with a large group of friends,"
a witness said.
"The staff member again refused and the offender then spat directly in the duty
manager's face which struck him in the eyes."
The pair left the restaurant.
Police were called to the scene but were unable to locate the offenders.
A McDonald's staff member confirmed there had been an incident, but was
unable to provide any details.
A police spokesman said uniformed crews attended an incident at the
restaurant on Monday at 12.45am.
Detectives are investigating and have security vision from the restaurant, the
spokesman said.
The alleged offender was described as being 180cm tall and had a small tuft of
hair below his bottom lip.
29 October
2011
A 20-YEAR-OLD Dalby man was turned into the punch line of his own bad
joke early Friday morning, when he was caught exposing himself at the
drive-through window of a McDonalds restaurant.
Sergeant Clint Ryan said staff at McDonalds on Condamine Street, Dalby,
called police about 1.30am and reported seeing a man, who was on foot,
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.couriermail.co
m.au/news/macdonaldsstaff-get-eyeful-of-badtaste-tattoo-when-manexposes-himself-at-drivethrough-window/storye6frep26-
Kate Higgins
From: The
Courier-Mail
October 29,
Page 83 of 110
exposing himself.
1226180075568
2011 1:06AM
http://www.themercury.c
om.au/article/2011/11/01
/273351_tasmanianews.html
The Mercury,
Leader
Newspapers,
ZARA
DAWTREY |
November 01,
2011 12.01am
It is understood the restaurant required all patrons to order through the drivethrough after hours and that the man was walking through with friends when he
let fly.
Police arrived immediately and viewed video footage at the restaurant,
identifying the 20-year-old.
The man accompanied police back to the station where he advised them that
his reason for exposing himself was not for a sexual act.
1 November
2011 - New
since
submission
Rather, the man insisted he was simply showing his friends a tattoo on his
penis, bearing the words “Your name”.
POLICE have charged two teenage girls with a violent Eastern Shore
crime spree last week.
Police allege the 18-year-olds, accompanied by two other young females,
robbed and assaulted a bus driver, tried to steal a McDonald's charity box, then
bashed and robbed a taxi driver in the space of an hour.
One teen was arrested last week and police charged the second 18-year-old
yesterday.
Eastern CIB Detective Constable Craig Fry said that at the Rosny bus mall on
October 24, the two 18-year-olds approached a female driver, who was hit on
the arm with a bottle and restrained while one of the offenders stole a small
amount from the cash box.
Police say the offenders then tried to make off with the charity proceeds at the
Rosny McDonald's restaurant but the box was chained to the counter.
Police allege the teens then caught a taxi to Howrah, got out without paying,
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took the driver's $700 mobile phone and assaulted him.
29 November
2011 – New
since
submission
The two face counts of aggravated armed robbery, attempted stealing,
aggravated robbery and common assault.
$400 fine with that Big Mac
PUSHING a car through a McDonald's drive-thru in attempt to avoid a drinkdriving charge has proved fruitless for one young Warwick man.
http://www.newsmail.com.au/story/2011/1
1/29/400-fine-with-thatbig-mac/
News Mail
Ben William Wagner decided the safest way to satisfy his early morning
munchies was by having a group of friends push his vehicle to the restaurant
while he steered.
The group of around eight people pushed the car from King St to the
McDonald's restaurant on Albion St at around 1.30am on October 29.
When spoken to by police, Wagner admitted to starting the car and using it to
drive from the order box to the drive-thru window and then to the carpark.
When taken back to the police station, Wagner returned a blood-alcohol
reading of 0.095.
The bar attendant told police the group hatched the plan to push the car as it
was the only way to access McDonald's at that time of the morning.
Acting Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist said take-away food and cigarettes were
the downfall of many people who chose to drive while intoxicated.
He asked Wagner if there weren't other ways to satisfy his drunken hankerings.
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"Haven't you got a toasted sandwich maker or something at home?" he asked.
Wagner told the magistrate that he guessed he just felt like Maccas.
The 21-year-old man pleaded guilty in the Warwick Magistrates Court last
week to one charge of drink driving.
22 November
2011
8 December
2011 – New
since
Submission
Man pleads guilty to McDonald's killing
A MAN has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting another man at a McDonald's
restaurant on the Gold Coast. In the Brisbane Supreme Court today, Samuel
Mark Friedman, 26, of Surfers Paradise, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of
Richard Doherty, 34, and unlawfully wounding Ben Matthews, 26, at Burleigh
Heads in August 2009. Judge Julie Dick remanded Friedman in custody. He
will be sentenced at the same court on Thursday.
Thieves force man to buy fast food
TWO petty thieves made a young man buy them a McDonald's meal when the
victim could not draw enough money out of an ATM.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/man-pleads-guiltyto-mcdonaldskilling/story-fn3dxity1226202449458
From: AAP
http://www.sunshinecoas
tdaily.com.au/story/2011/
12/08/thieves-forcedvictim-to-buy-them-takeaway/
Sunshine
Coast Daily
November 22,
2011 1:04PM
Corri-Jo Smallman and Lance Anthony Zellow committed a number of small
robberies at Nambour on August 28 last year.
They first approached a man at the railway station and told him: "Here's the
deal - you give us $50 or I'll put you six feet under."
The frightened victim only had $11 in his bank account.
"Can you get me Maccas?" Smallman asked.
At the fast food restaurant, the thieving pair also robbed a man of $20 and then
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told him to withdraw more money from an ATM.
When his card declined because of insufficient funds, the man said he could
get more money from his colleagues at McDonald's.
Back at the restaurant, another worker asked Smallman what it would take for
him to leave.
"Make it $25 and I won't come back," Smallman said.
He left, but returned and demanded an extra $10 before he fled.
Smallman and Zellow pleaded guilty in Maroochydore District Court yesterday
to two counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery.
Smallman received a 12-month suspended sentence and Zellow a nine-month
suspended sentence.
31 December
2011
Armadale Detectives have charged a man in relation to the attack at
McDonalds in Willetton.
Three people smashed their way in through the glass doors of Willetton
McDonalds at 2.30am this morning, attacking a customer and a staff member.
14 January
2012
The fracas started when two male youths on pushbikes attended the
McDonalds drive-thru to place an order while a group of people sat in a vehicle
in the car park.
Affray - Hoppers Crossing - 14 January 2012
http://www.watoday.com.
au/wa-news/goodsamaritan-mcdonaldsstaff-attacked-201112311pg8l.html#ixzz21yUaN
GNQ
Staff Writers
From WA
Today 31
December
2011
https://vic.crimestoppers.
com.au/node/12952
Crime
Stoppers
At about 2:45am on 14 January 2012, two men were in the car park of a
McDonalds restaurant on Morris Rd, Hoppers Crossing when they became
involved in an altercation with a group of 5 men.
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The two victims ran inside the restaurant to escape but were followed by the
group who were now armed with weapons including a meat cleaver, a
dumbbell and garden stakes.
16 January
2012 – New
since
Submission
The group allegedly assaulted both men, leaving one with serious injuries and
smashed a number of windows before leaving the restaurant.
Youths wreack havoc
RAMPAGING youths left a trail of destruction in their wake at the weekend,
allegedly causing up to $10,000 damage to Warwick businesses and
properties.
http://www.warwickdailyn
ews.com.au/story/2012/0
1/16/youths-wreakhavoc-during-rampage/
Shannon
Newley | 16th
January 2012
2:00 AM
The Warwick
Daily News
A Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) spokesman said an 18-year-old male
was remanded in custody and would face court today.
He said a 15-year-old male would face Warwick Children's Court in February
and was released under strict bail conditions, and another 15-year-old was
interviewed yesterday and dealt with under the Juvenile Justice Act.
"All up there were eight counts of wilful damage, one of burglary and an assault
this weekend in Warwick," the CIB spokesman said.
He said the onslaught started at McDonald's where a man was allegedly
dragged out of his car and assaulted while his vehicle was vandalised.
HE SAID five businesses and properties were vandalised on Friday night,
including the School of Total Education, the United Service Station, Cafe
Jacqui's and B&K Motors.
"There were smashed windows and a car yard had windows smashed on two
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brand new cars," he said.
He said the damage was another blow for the businesses, some of which were
affected by last year's flooding.
"They have just gotten back on their feet," he said.
"One of the window panes cost $1500 and the two new car windscreens could
be $800 each.
"It's not unimaginable to think there could be $10,000 worth of damage done in
a few hours."
The CIB spokesman said the three people were allegedly caught on CCTV and
questioned at the weekend.
An ATM was also vandalised Friday night.
"It was a terrible night for Warwick," the CIB spokesman said.
He said police were aware of a local group of youths who are understood to
have formed themselves into a gang.
"It's a small group of children in town ... basically they consider themselves a
street gang," he said. "We are obviously aware of them and who is in it."
17 January 2012
– new since
submission
Cessnock McDonalds hit in armed robbery
POLICE remain on the scene investigating an armed robbery at a McDonalds in
Cessnock early today.
Police were called to the Allandale Road scene about 5.30am after two offenders
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http://www.theherald.com.a
u/news/local/news/crimeand-law/cessnockmcdonalds-hit-in-armedrobbery/2422289.aspx
MATT CARR
17 Jan, 2012
09:45 AM
Newcastle
Herald
Page 89 of 110
entered the store.
One was carrying a firearm, police said, while the other was armed with a knife.
The pair demanded money from the restaurant staff before fleeing the scene with a
sum of cash.
No-one was injured in the incident.
25 January
2012 – new
since
submission and
hearing closure
POLICE are investigating a wild brawl at a Hoppers Crossing McDonalds that left two
men with stab wounds.
On Saturday 14 January around 2.45am police were called to the McDonalds on the
corner of Heaths Rd and Morris Rd after a group of up to eight men attacked two
other men.
http://www.starnewsgroup.c
om.au/star/werribeehopperscrossing/332/story/147470.
html
By XAVIER
SMERDON
Star, Werribee,
Hoppers
Crossing,
Point Cook
Officer in Charge of the Werribee Crime Investigation Unit, Detective Senior
Sergeant John Johnston, told Star the violent incident occurred after the victims had
an altercation with a smaller group of men.
The argument took place in the car park of the McDonalds but broke up after some
of the participants left the scene.
They later returned however with up to six friends, wielding “sharp weapons” and
the fight made its way into the restaurant.
“It's obviously a numbers issue with six to eight people against two,” Det Sen Sgt
Johnston said.
“The two men attempted to take refuge in the McDonalds and an attendant sensed
the urgency of the matter and let them in.
“Unfortunately the staff member was unable to lock the doors in time and the other
men then entered as well.”
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One of the victims received stab wounds and was taken to Footscray hospital while
the other one received lacerations but refused treatment.
Det Sen Sgt Johnston encouraged the men involved to come forward.
“Obviously when we're talking about various sharp weapons, that's very dangerous,”
he said.
“People make spur of the moment decisions but the consequences can last a
lifetime.
“We have CCTV footage of the incident but we would appeal to the persons to come
forward voluntarily.”
27 January
2012
A MAN has been arrested after attacking a policeman at Indooroopilly
McDonald's in Brisbanes's inner west.
About 2.15am today police were called to the restaurant on Coonan St after
staff reported a man abusing them in the drive-through.
A police spokesman said officers approached the man in his car but he would
not follow instructions to get out of the vehicle and complete a breathalyser
test.
1 February
2012
An officer put his hand in the vehicle to stop the man moving forward but the
man grabbed the officer’s arm and started to drive off, dragging him 50m.
Taunt ends in court for Maccas argument –
A GARDENVALE man gave his girlfriend a black eye by throwing a drink at her
after she called him “little man’‘. Michael Hirschfield, who is about 160cm,
pleaded guilty at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court to recklessly causing injury.
Police prosecutor Sgt Jill Shepley said Hirschfield and his girlfriend, who have
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Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.couriermail.co
m.au/news/queensland/
man-arrested-afterallegedly-attacking-apoliceman-atindooroopillymcdonalds/storye6freoof-1226254973166
January 27,
2012 8:02AM
http://baysideleader.whereilive.com.au
/news/story/taunt-endsin-court-for-maccasargument/
1 Feb 12 @
10:53am by
Jon Andrews
Rikki-Lee
Arnold
From: The
Courier-Mail
Bayside
Leader
Page 91 of 110
now broken up, were at the Cheltenham McDonald’s fast food outlet in August
last year. She said an argument started and Hirschfield threw a drink cup into
the victim’s face, leaving her with a black eye.
2 February
2012 – New
since
Submission
Mother and son charged over McDonald's drive-through shooting
A teenager and his mother have been charged over a shooting at a Sydney
McDonald's, which was sparked by a fight in the drive-through, police say.
The 35-year-old woman was allegedly her son's getaway driver after he fired at
a group of people at the fast-food restaurant on Pembroke Road, Minto, on
December 18, police say.
http://www.smh.com.au/n
sw/mother-and-soncharged-overmcdonalds-drivethroughshooting-201202021qtyi.html#ixzz24NP3I2U
r
The Sydney
Morning
Herald
Police said the group of teenagers began arguing with the 16-year-old as he
sat in the passenger seat of a BMW in the drive-through.
The boy allegedly held up a shotgun and fired at them from the car, before his
mother drove away, police said.
The teenagers ran away before police were called.
A 17-year-old boy later spoke to police at Macquarie Fields police station and
was found to have a minor gunshot wound to his stomach, police said.
Officers arrested the 16-year-old and his mother at a house in St Andrews
yesterday morning.
Police also seized cash, cannabis and the BMW.
The boy was charged with shooting with intent to cause grievous bodily harm
and possessing prohibited drugs.
He will face Campbelltown Local Court today.
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His mother was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
3 February
2012
1 March 2012 New Since
Submission
She will appear at the same court later this month.
Assault - Traralgon - 3 February 2012
At about 1:05am on 3 February 2012, a man was at a McDonalds restaurant
on Argyle Street, Traralgon when he was approached by two men.
The men attempted to start a fight with the other man. Another patron
intervened and was punched in the face, resulting in facial fractures.
Bottle Attacker Flees
POLICE are hunting for a man who entered Rockingham McDonald’s and
smashed a bottle on the head of a customer on Sunday morning.
https://vic.crimestoppers.
com.au/node/13031
http://www.inmycommuni
ty.com.au/news-andviews/local-news/Bottleattacker-flees-/7615311/
Crime
Stoppers
By Laura
Tomlinson,
Weekend
At 6.30am, a Hillman man (28) was sitting in the Read Street store when
another man entered the restaurant and hit him on the right side of his head
with a beer bottle.
2 March 2012
New since
submission
The victim had a 3cm cut to his ear and had bruising on his right side.
Police refute abuse claims
THE POLICE have refuted claims that they kept a new mother in custody for
up to six hours in an effort to coerce her to give evidence.
Courier
http://www.newsmail.com.au/story/2012/0
3/02/young-mum-detailspolice-abuse-claims/
News Mail
Yesterday, Hervey Bay Magistrates Court heard that Angela Carson, 23, was
kept in the watch house while bleeding for hours, only three weeks after giving
birth.
Today, police prosecutor Senior Constable Jeanette Grigoris produced the
logbooks detailing exactly how long Ms Carson was at the police station for.
The total amount of time came to three and a half hours in the station, with
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about two and a half hours of that time spent in custody.
Snr Const Grigoris said Ms Carson arrived at the station at 6.00pm in
possession of $2,500 worth of equestrian equipment which was the subject of
a prior stolen property claim.
At 6.41pm, Ms Carson was officially placed into custody, Snr Const Grigoris
said, which included being asked a number of questions about her medical
state and whether she needed any sort of assistance.
At 9.09pm, she was taken for fingerprinting and a photograph before being
released at 9.25pm.
Ms Carson told police she suspected the goods were stolen, that she had
received them at the McDonald's carpark in Pialba earlier that day and then put
them on her eBay account.
After placing them for sale online, Ms Carson told police she became aware
the goods were possibly stolen and took them to the station.
Snr Const Grigoris said Ms Carson given the chance to offer a full explanation
as to how she came into possession of the goods and to exonerate herself, but
refused to do so.
Legal Aid barrister Craig Ryan said that as soon as Ms Carson declined to be
interviewed, there was no basis for the police to hold her any longer and she
should have been released.
Snr Const Grigoris still offered no evidence against Ms Carson for the charges
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of stealing or receiving stolen goods, leading to Magistrate Graeme Tatnell
dismissing the charges.
Mr Tatnell did not award costs against the prosecution, however.
3 March 2012
New since
submission
Police hunt for assault witnesses
THE HUNT is on for witnesses to a late night assault in Pialba.
http://www.frasercoastch
ronicle.com.au/story/201
2/03/09/police-huntassault-witnesses/
Fraser Coast
Chronicle
A Hervey Bay police spokesman said anyone who saw an incident between
two men outside of McDonald's between 3.00 and 4.00am on March 3 should
come forward.
A male suspect in his mid-twenties is said to have assaulted a man in his
thirties, causing facial injuries.
13 March 2012
– New since
Submission
Austria tourist punched by drunk man
A TOURIST from Austria will probably think we're a bunch of bushwhackers
after he was punched while waiting to be served at a family restaurant in Airlie
Beach.
http://www.dailymercury.
com.au/story/2012/03/13
/austria-tourist-punchedmcdonalds-mackaycourt/
Mackay Daily
Mercury
A very drunk 27-year-old Max Crane punched the tourist outside the
McDonald's Family Restaurant early last Saturday but the details only came to
light today when Crane faced court.
Crane thought the tourist was making funny remarks about him, so he punched
him, the Mackay Magistrate's Court was told.
The international visitor did not suffer any serious injuries but an ambulance
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was called to assist him.
Security officers from a nearby nightclub detained Crane until police arrived to
arrest him.
As it turned out, there was a warrant out for Crane's arrest for a theft in
Brisbane last year.
Crane pleaded guilty to two charges, including creating a public nuisance in
Airlie Beach, and was jailed for three months.
15 March 2012
Couple robbed at knifepoint at McDonald's
Police are hunting for a man who allegedly stole a wallet and phone at
knifepoint in a Belconnen McDonald's earlier this month. They said a man
entered the Emu Bank restaurant about 7.30pm on March 6, and used a knife
to threaten a man and a woman seated inside the restaurant. He allegedly took
a phone and wallet from the man before running away.
19 March 2012
Trio rob Sydenham McDonalds - THREE men terrorised staff at a Sydenham
McDonalds with an axe, baseball bat and hammer before taking cash last
Wednesday. Police believe the men entered the 24-hour restaurant on the
corner of Calder Park drive and Melton Highway about 2.40am on Wednesday
March 14.
http://www.theage.com.a
u/act-news/couplerobbed-at-knifepoint-atmcdonalds-201203151v5yw.html
Christopher
Knaus
March 15,
2012
http://brimbankleader.whereilive.com.au
/news/story/trio-robsydenham-mcdonalds/
ACT News
by Georgie
Haberfield
19 Mar 12 @
09:48am
Brimbank
Leader
20 March 2012
Man attacked at McDonald's
A young man who was punched several times in the face while eating at Civic
McDonalds over a month ago was left with "extensive facial injuries", police
say. CCTV footage of the alleged attack, issued by police today, shows the
victim sitting at a table eating, when a man approaches him from behind,
Kathleen Bosworth, Tecoma Resident, VCAT Review P3933/2011
Nos. 1529, 1529A, 1531 & 1533 Burwood Highway Tecoma
http://www.theage.com.a
u/act-news/manattacked-at-mcdonalds20120320-1vh8d.html
Christopher
Knaus
March 20,
Page 96 of 110
28 March 2012
- New Since
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punching him in the face. Police say the 19-year-old victim had been standing
in queue at the East Row McDonalds about 2.30am Friday, February 3, when
the alleged offender and a young girl pushed in front. That had caused "an
exchange of words", police say. The victim had then taken his food and sat
down. The alleged attacker had then walked up to the table and punched the
19-year-old several times. Police say the young blonde woman had taken the
victim's phone during the incident.
Teen vomit craze spreading
A NEW teenage vomiting craze dubbed the “three-litre rainbow milk challenge”
is spreading all over Ellenbrook and surrounding areas of Perth.
2012 ACT
News
http://www.inmycommuni
ty.com.au/news-andviews/local-news/Teenvomiting-crazespreading/7617338/
By Caroline
Frank,
Advocate
High school students are going into Ellenbrook shops to buy three-litre
containers of milk, and bright food colouring.
They mix the two then try to drink the liquid as fast as they can.
The aim is to finish the entire three litres before you vomit.
The craze, which has been around since the late 1990s and was more recently
revived in the now famous by US television series Jackass, has become the
anti-social behaviour of choice in public areas in Ellenbrook, Redcliffe and
Ocean Reef.
Ellenbrook student Megan (14), who did not want her surname used, said the
whole point of the challenge was not to “yack up the milk”.
“I know some kids that try to run from security at the (Ellenbrook) shops on a
Thursday night, then come and vomit around McDonald’s in the car park,” she
said.
“It’s all the ‘cool’ group who do it.”
Ellenbrook police Senior-Sergeant John Waghorn said several shopkeepers
had raised concerns of about 60 youths regularly loitering in the car parks near
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Ellenbrook shops.
“The latest craze is vomiting on people’s cars and it won’t be tolerated,” Sgt
Waghorn said.
“We had as many as 60 kids last Thursday riding their skateboards and
scooters through the carpark, being provocative and intimidating, floating
between McDonald’s and the shopping centre.”
The Coffee Club owner Sarah Griffiths said the behaviour of local teenagers
had affected her business.
“Large groups of young people hang around in groups on our terrace, which is
a problem for us,” she said.
“The past six weeks, it has affected our turnover on a Thursday night.”
Snr Sergeant Waghorn said police would target the shopping centre over the
next month and issue move-on notices to anti-social youth.
“We will hammer this area to send a strong message to these kids that their
behaviour is unacceptable,” he said.
Mother-of-five Michelle Casella said she often avoided shopping on in
Ellenbrook on a Thursday night because of problem youths.
“It can be quite frightening,” she said.
“A lot of them look like good kids and I don’t know what they are doing out. I’ve
got kids aged 11 to 18 and none of mine are out on the street at night,” she
said.
Snr Sergeant Waghorn echoed Mrs Casella’s concerns.
“Responsible parents should know where their children are and what they are
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doing at all times,” he said.
13 April 2012
“People should be entitled do their weekly shop without having to walk through
a group of 50 kids and feel intimidated.”
A MAN has suffered serious burns to his face, chest and arms after the
manager of McDonald's at King Cross allegedly threw hot oil in his face.
Kings Cross police are yet to charge the manager with any offence, and are
still investigating whether the manager was acting in self-defence, the
Wentworth Courier reported.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/mcdonalds
-manager-in-hot-oilattack/story-e6frg6o61226269688723
At about 3.30am on Friday February 10, the victim was ordering food with a
friend at McDonald’s on Darlinghurst Rd.
By Alex
Cauchi
From: News
Limited
newspapers
February 13,
2012 12:34PM
Police say the victim was moderately affected by alcohol when he became
involved in a verbal argument with the McDonald’s manager. The victim is
alleged to have swore at the manager and threatened to kill him, when the
manager allegedly replied, "If you come over the counter, I’ll throw oil on you".
The victim then jumped the counter which is when the manager has thrown the
oil directly at the man’s face. The oil caused significant and serious burns to
the victim’s face, chest, torso and both arms. The victim was taken to St
Vincent’s Hospital then transferred to the Burns Unit at Concord Hospital.
18 April 2012
Robber drinks his coke while waiting for police
A man who robbed a McDonald's restaurant with a knife before sitting down to
drink a coke has been arrested by police. The 28-year-old Busselton man
entered the Rockingham Road fast food outlet just after 3pm yesterday and
produced a 30cm fishing knife, demanding cash and a large coke.
http://www.watoday.com.
au/wa-news/robberdrinks-his-coke-whilewaiting-for-police20120418-1x6hi.html
Staff Writers
From WA
Today
The man was given the money and coke before telling staff he would wait for
police to arrive.
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24 April 2012
A MAN has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at a
McDonald's car park on NSW's south coast.
A 29-year-old man was stabbed repeatedly in broad daylight outside the
restaurant in Cambewarra Road, Bomaderry on the morning of April 11.
http://www.theaustralian.
com.au/news/breakingnews/man-charged-overmcdonaldsstabbing/story-fn3dxity1226336743746
From AAP
http://www.sunshinecoas
tdaily.com.au/story/2012/
04/27/armed-bandittargets-mcdonalds/
Kate Clifford |
27th April 2012
9:37 AM
April 24, 2012
8:09AM
He was rushed to Shoalhaven Hospital and had surgery on wounds to his
chest, arms and stomach.
Local detectives arrested a 30-year-old man at a Nowra legal practice
yesterday afternoon.
Officers also searched two homes in Nowra, seizing a shortened shotgun, a
modified .22 gun barrel, a knife, clothing, a motorbike and motorbike
accessories.
The man was charged with wound with intent to murder and firearm offences
and is due to appear at Nowra Local Court today.
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Police were not able to immediately clarify if the stabbing was bikie gangrelated.
Man charged for McDonald's hold-up
POLICE have charged a 20-year-old Tewantin man who allegedly held up a
McDonald's restaurant in Nambour last night.
It was believed the man held up the Currie St McDonald's with a replica firearm
Sunshine
Coast Daily
about midnight.
Police alleged the man used the firearm to smash a side window of the outlet
and gain entry, while another offender waited in the drive through.
Staff members fled the store to call police shortly after the intruder gained
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entry.
The 20-year-old was charged with one count of attempted armed robbery and
enter premises with intent to commit a crime.
He was due to appear before the Maroochydore Magistrates Court this
morning.
No one was injured in the robbery.
14 May 2012
New since
submission
POLICE are investigating an armed robbery at the Coffs Harbour south
McDonalds this morning.
Staff at the outlet were left traumatised after two armed men entered the rear of
the store this morning around 5.45am.
http://www.coffscoastadv
ocate.com.au/story/2012/
05/14/armed-robberycoffs-harbour/
Coffs Harbour
Advocate
Police have established the men produced a hand gun and what was thought
to be a replica firearm and demanded cash before they made a getaway.
A crime scene was established at the location and witnesses were interviewed.
This latest hold-up follows a spate of armed robberies on the Coffs Coast
involving firearms over the past fornight.
A service station at Toormina was held up last Wednesday by offenders armed
with a pistol and tyre levers.
The Clybucca service station fell victim to two men, one who was armed with a
handgun last Sunday night.
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Then a day later there was a robbery at the Dominos Pizza store in Kempsey.
Police are investigating links between these robberies and a hold-up at
the Coffs Harbour Hungry Jacks outlet in Bray St on Thursday, May 3.
On that occasion five men stormed the store, armed with a handgun, a crow
bar and knives.
Police said they are investigating links between the Hungry Jacks, McDonalds
and Clybucca robberies as well as several other similar offences in the Taree
area.
3 June 2012
Serious Assault - McDonald's - Melbourne CBD
A man was seriously assaulted at a McDonald’s on the corner of Lonsdale
Street and Swanston Street in Melbourne’s CBD on 3 June 2012.
At about 2:00am the victim was standing inside at the counter when another
man allegedly approached him from behind, tapped him on the shoulder and
king hit him, knocking him unconscious.
http://vic.crimestoppers.c
om.au/help_solve_crime/
unsolved_cases/assault/
serious-assaultmcdonalds-melbournecbd-3-june-2012
Crime
Stoppers
http://www.mydailynews.
com.au/story/2012/06/12
/man-pleads-not-guiltyon-hold-up/
My Daily
News, Gold
Coast
As a result of the assault, the victim sustained a fracture and severe bruising to
the eye area and a fractured rib.
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The man is described as European in appearance, aged in his 20’s,
approximately 170cm tall, with a medium build and short dark hair. He was
wearing a black jacket, a white t-shirt with black print and long dark pants. He
had a gold ring on his right hand.
Man pleads not guilty on hold-up
THE MAN charged following an attempted armed hold-up at a Tweed Heads
South McDonald's store has pleaded not guilty.
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Mathew Davis, 22, appeared in Tweed Heads Local Court yesterday and was
granted strict conditional bail.
Police reports state a man, armed with an iron bar, walked to the drive-through
serving window of the store in the early hours of Sunday morning and
demanded money from the attendant before leaving along Minjungbal Dr when
staff refused his demands.
Passing highway patrol officers arrested Davis after staff called police.
They found a socket spanner and knife on him when he was searched.
Davis' defence solicitor said Davis denied the allegations and that he had been
fishing across the road.
He said Davis was in posession of the knife and spanner for fishing only and
that he had gone across the road to get a burger before being arrested.
The court heard he was heavily intoxicated at the time.
Magistrate Michael Dakin granted bail provided Davis reports daily to police,
doesn't go to the McDonald's store and surrenders $1000 in surety.
An acceptable person must also post $1000 in surety.
The matter was adjourned until July 23.
4 July 2012 –
New since
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Man steals McDonald’s EFTPOS machine
THE McDonald's Family Restaurant at North Mackay is seeking $2000
compensation after Macauley Stonebridge stole the EFTPOS machine at their
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http://www.dailymercury.
com.au/story/2012/07/04
/hes-paying-for-prankmackay/
Bruce McKean
| 4th July 2012
5:00 AM
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drive-through service window.
Mackay Daily
Mercury
The busy drive-through service was disrupted for two days, which was the time
it took to replace the machine.
Stonebridge, an apprentice electrician, was drunk after attending an 18th
birthday party and was a passenger in a car which used the drive-through at
10pm on June 2.
As the vehicle drove in, another passenger suggested it would be funny if they
stole the EFTPOS machine, the Mackay Magistrate's Court was told yesterday.
A pair of tin snips was on the floor of the vehicle. Stonebridge picked them up
and cut the electric cord on the EFTPOS machine and the driver took off.
The machine was then taken back to the party where young people passed it
around before it ended up at the bottom of a swimming pool.
Stonebridge pleaded guilty to stealing. Duty solicitor Sheena Hayes, of Morton
Lawyers, said: "It was a stupid error of judgment."
Restitution was sought, including $875 to replace the machine, and $2000 for
lost service.
The court heard many customers drove off during the two days because there
was no EFTPOS available and many of them did not want to go into the
restaurant to use the machine which was inside.
McDonald's North Mackay owner Ron Reseck said in a statement to the court:
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"By doing this senseless act, you completely disrupted our business because
customers drove off or would not come into the restaurant to pay."
13 July 2012
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Shots have been fired after a fight between gangs outside a Ballajura
McDonalds.
Young teens in drive-through crash
A 13-YEAR-OLD girl and a 15-year-old boy have been charged after crashing
a car at the Warrego Hwy McDonalds drive through in the Lockyer Valley.
http://video.heraldsun.co
m.au/2255872802/NineNews-McDonaldsshooting
http://www.thechronicle.c
om.au/story/2012/07/27/
young-teens-drivethrough-crash/
Staff Writers,
http://www.sunshinecoas
tdaily.com.au/story/2012/
07/27/jail-for-chainsawterror-in-maccas-carpark/
Sunshine
Coast Daily
Herald Sun
Toowoomba
Chronicle
Police alleged the juveniles tried to leave the College View fuel station shortly
before 10.15am yesterday when they collided with the restaurant's drive
through roof.
"It will be further alleged that the juveniles have then reversed the vehicle into
concrete barriers," police said.
The girl was charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle and dangerous
operation of a motor vehicle.
The boy was charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle, attempted fraud,
driving without a licence and possession of dangerous drugs.
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They will both be deal with under the provisions of the Youth Justices Act 1992.
Jail for Maccas chainsaw terror
A MAN has been jailed for six months for terrorising people with a chainsaw in
the Nambour McDonald's car park.
The Maroochydore Magistrates Court heard yesterday Benjamin Troy Owen,
34, had been in an altercation with a group of men at Nambour about 1.30pm
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on April 12.
The court heard Mr Owen returned to his vehicle, which was parked at the
Nambour railway station, and retrieved a chainsaw which he had been going to
have sharpened.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Phil Stephens said Mr Owen started the chainsaw
and ran through the fast-food outlet's car park.
Terrified people fled and children screamed at the sight of the man brandishing
the revving chainsaw above his head.
Mr Owen pleaded guilty in court to behaving in a threatening manner.
28 July 2012
Overdose horror at city McDonald's
A BEDRAGGLED drug user was left to overdose in front of children for 20
minutes at an Elizabeth St McDonald's today, despite outraged parents
pleading with staff to call emergency services.
The 26 year-old St Kilda man entered the family restaurant near the Queen
Victoria Market at about 3.30pm today and began injecting with a needle near
shocked patrons.
http://www.adelaidenow.
com.au/news/national/ov
erdose-story/storyfndo1svg1226437557676
Mitchell Toy,
John Dagg
From: Sunday
Herald Sun
July 28, 2012
7:00PM
Andrew Kahn, of Adelaide, had travelled to Melbourne for a weekend away
with his wife and children and had just visited the Vic Market when he saw the
drug user - with his pants slipping down - in the corner of the McDonald's.
''He came in and started shooting up, right near a family with kids,'' Mr Kahn
said.
''I told a staff member it was happening and she said sorry, the manager isn't in
at the moment.”
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11 August 2012
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Police net 'ice' worth $20,000
THE scourge of crystal methamphetamine has reared its ugly head again, after
more than $20,000 worth of the illicit drug was seized in the city on Thursday
night.
http://www.newsmail.com.au/story/2012/0
8/11/police-net-iceworth-20000-bundabergdrug/
News Mail
Bundaberg Criminal Investigation Branch Detective Senior Sergeant Joe
Hildred said officers intercepted a white Mitsubishi Lancer outside McDonald's
on Takalvan St shortly before midnight.
"A search of the vehicle revealed a box lab and other drug items including
(about) 20g of crystal methamphetamine," he said.
"It will be alleged (the box lab) would have been used to recently produce
methamphetamine."
The Illicit Laboratory Investigation Team arrived from Brisbane yesterday to
process the drug lab.
Twenty-eight-year-old Ipswich man Tobyn Lee
Livermore was arrested and charged with 10 offences including allegedly
producing and possessing a dangerous drug, stealing licence plates and four
counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
Livermore appeared briefly in Bundaberg Magistrates Court yesterday
afternoon where he made no application for bail.
He has been remanded in custody to reappear on August 24.
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Det Snr Sgt Hildred said it was a coincidence that
Livermore was charged one day after a 22-year-old man was charged for
allegedly possessing 0.65g of the same drug - street name, ice - on
Wednesday night.
"I put it down to very good police work," he said.
"We have a very good strike rate on people who are allegedly committing these
offences.
"This type of arrest demonstrates how active we are in the community."
He said any type of drug found in Bundaberg was a concern to police.
"Police are constantly battling this scourge in this society," he said.
13 August 2012
New since
submission
Man fined for McDonald's assault
A MAN has been fined for bashing someone in the carpark at McDonald's in
Hervey Bay.
http://www.frasercoastch
ronicle.com.au/story/201
2/08/13/man-finedmcdonalds-assault/
Fraser Coast
Chronicle
Daniel John Bell, 22, pleaded guilty today to a charge of assault occasioning
bodily harm.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Michael Quirk said Bell bashed the male victim
causing a number of facial and head injuries, after female friends of both men
were involved in an argument at Rumaz Niteclub earlier in the night.
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Bell's lawyer, Allan Mallard, agreed, saying "the troublemakers were the girls,"
with Bell sticking up for his friends, and the victim sticking up for his.
Mr Mallard said the argument between the girls started over how some of them
were dressed at Rumaz, before some of them were called "fat, f***ing moles,"
by the others.
Sgt Quirk said after this argument, the victim and his friends left the club to go
to McDonald's, where they later encountered Bell in the carpark.
The argument started again, however this time did not end until Bell was on top
on the other man on the ground, repeatedly punching him in the head.
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Conclusion
One the objectives of the planning framework established by the Planning and Environment
Act 1987 (Section 4, Clause 4, Number 2d) is “to ensure that the effects on the environment
are considered and provide for explicit consideration of social and economic effects when
decisions are made about the use and development of land;”
The built environment of place has an impact on people’s behaviour because of that place
and its use. The intensity of use in this proposed development represents a significant
change to this place and as a consequence, poses an increased risk to safety.
It is the responsibility of VCAT to make a decision to reject the application to build a
McDonald’s in Tecoma. Should you approve the development, the Tecoma Community will
be at a significantly increased risk of violent acts of aggravated robbery, sexual assaults,
physical assaults and other criminal activity. The documented instances of violent crimes at
the tenant of the proposed development have a prevalence of crimes at night and a 24 hour
fast food outlet will increase that risk.
It is a primary responsibility of government to protect its citizens against harm, to ensure our
personal safety.
Tecoma is a village of 2189 residents, approximately 500 homes. We do not need nor want
this proposed development that will put our personal safety and that of our children at risk.
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