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A quick question....and I'll probably get shot down in flames........ but what is the difference between serial pest Peter Hore and The Chaser team?

Both try and interrupt large scale public events. Both are an uninvited and unnecessary distraction to the event they are attending. Admittedly "The Chaser" team is very clever and meticulously organises its sendups, but please don't tell me the bottom line is "they are different to Peter Hore because they're funnier and they have a bigger budget".

I enjoy Chaser each week - I just think that they are hit and miss. Some skits are spectacularly funny while other things are spectacularly cringe worthy (for example the Beatles tribute to Rogets Thesaurus in the last series).

Just creating discussion.

Duckman
 
I think it is very funny.

Shame they have been charged.

Showed up the Security that is costing $24 million a day.

Ratings for the program should go through the roof next week. Already very popular program and have a large viewing audience.

Downer, seemed to think it was funny, too!

The stunt seems to have been reported around the world. The Chasers have gone international!


:)
 
Duckman#72 said:
A quick question....and I'll probably get shot down in flames........ but what is the difference between serial pest Peter Hore and The Chaser team?

Both try and interrupt large scale public events. Both are an uninvited and unnecessary distraction to the event they are attending. Admittedly "The Chaser" team is very clever and meticulously organises its sendups, but please don't tell me the bottom line is "they are different to Peter Hore because they're funnier and they have a bigger budget".

I enjoy Chaser each week - I just think that they are hit and miss. Some skits are spectacularly funny while other things are spectacularly cringe worthy (for example the Beatles tribute to Rogets Thesaurus in the last series).

Just creating discussion.

Duckman
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good question
in my opion the chaser does it for a joke(your right not always funny)
and peter hore is a joke...i dont think any one takes him seriously either
 
Duckman#72 said:
A quick question....and I'll probably get shot down in flames........ but what is the difference between serial pest Peter Hore and The Chaser team?

Both try and interrupt large scale public events. Both are an uninvited and unnecessary distraction to the event they are attending. Admittedly "The Chaser" team is very clever and meticulously organises its sendups, but please don't tell me the bottom line is "they are different to Peter Hore because they're funnier and they have a bigger budget".

I enjoy Chaser each week - I just think that they are hit and miss. Some skits are spectacularly funny while other things are spectacularly cringe worthy (for example the Beatles tribute to Rogets Thesaurus in the last series).

Just creating discussion.

Duckman
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I kinda didn't gt that skit... Who cares about the thesaurus... The big difference between the two is that one is a nuisance and the other is comedy that sends a huge message that often puts others back in their place... For example... Craig goes to japan to harpoon japanese people for research purposes... Obviously Whaling is the issue...
 
Re: "Osama Bin Laden" makes it through OPEC security!!

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Why does this thread make a reference to OPEC which is the "Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries"?:)
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What a crack up, I think the doofus himself read this thread! (must of played on his mind)


US President George W Bush committed an embarrassing gaffe this morning when he hailed an OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) summit instead of the APEC one currently underway.
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http://optuszoo.news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=162634&rss=yes&_cobr=optus


They wernt exhagerating when they said that Linguists and other experts had determined him to have the lowest IQ of any US president ever ....
 
Gar said:
I dissagree, If the police had brains, they would have asked to see security passes. Its not a complicated process, unlike the great wall of sydney they've erected. Police are generally incompetent when it comes to things that actually matter though.
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so Gar
I take it you would argue that
some blue lines are thicker than others
but so too the blue pencils along that line ? ;)

PS did anyone see the movie "Raid on Entebbe"?
where the Israeli commandos landed in Entebbe to release the jewish hostages -
complete withHercules transports - and in there there was a motorcade of sorts - at least a black Mercedes limousine -
and an actor posing as Idi Amin
and it worked !!
they fooled the guards ( who were surrounded by buttons which , if pressed, would have blown them ALL up .

sheesh they were brave :)
one of the best movies I can recall .
something like yesterday, but with your life (and the lives of heaps of others ) at stake.
 
Both sides should be charged in my opinion, security and comedians.
If anything, such a stunt should be run internally to see integrity of security and how impenetrable security is.

But I will not argue my opinion, as I am happy to be wrong.


What was done was done, and looks that we could do with another level of security.

Like secret electronic chip inbedded in every motorcade vehicle and issued to every security personnel including vehicle riders/drivers, similar to what shops have.

This would not solve every imaginable possibility, but would probably pick up this one.
 
Totally hilarious especially Chas dressed as Osama Bin Laden and having got through 2 check points. The Chaser Mob are the best by far when it comes to Australian comedy. Overkill to have charged them. The security in place was hopeless indeed.
 
Sort of getting the feeling that we will never see this episode on TV. It will probably be confiscated in the interest of national security. Or the ABC will not be allowed to profit from an illegal act. Or some such thing.
 
According to ABC Radio the Chasers' cars carried stickers on the front saying that this vehicle is the property of "The Chaser's War on Everything".
Herewith their "Security Passes" which presumably were sighted by the security personnel.
 

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If this sketch is not shown in Aus overseas tv stations would pay millions for it. I loved it especially the OSAMA lookalike. porkpie
 
Well it did not happen in my day. 30 years ago, county town, at a hill climb event. Main celeb from Melbourne arrived with caravan two hill climb specials on trailers (four vehicles in all). At Showgrounds gate, plod is on duty only letting those (as instructed) with passes to go through. Our Celebrety had left his and crews at home so "Stalemate". Head Honcho of the event with the authority was absent with his son, had stood on some glass and was at a Doctor's surgery. Being Saturday the senior police on a day off.

Pleading to no avail, hour later Head Honcho returns, speaks to plod and coutege waved through with smile and fumes. Security maintained

Maybe we just need to go back to good old unarmed plods
 
This comedy team have proved that big budgets don't always buy brains and brawn. The security is only as strong as your weakest link, in this case it was likely to have been a rookie cop on $45K not willing to risk his reputation on checking the legitamacy of a convoy let alone his life.
Those involved in this blunder deserve severe disciplinary action as they have put many lives at risk including some of the most powerful figures in the world today.
The Chaser boys should not be charged but commended on pointing out this particular security flaw.
 
Chaser Busted At APEC
Today Tonight - The Chaser APEC Stunt
Today Tonights report on The Chaser's APEC Stunt where they got arrested. Visit
(Channel 7 are pissed off lol - at least Chaser have ethics enough not to pay graft for medical records , lol)

;)
 
Gar said:
I dissagree, If the police had brains, they would have asked to see security passes.

Its not a complicated process, unlike the great wall of sydney they've erected.


Police are generally incompetent when it comes to things that actually matter though.
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Yes, its a complete farce. All that money into fencing and then to let undercover comedians in through the front door... what an incompetent bunch of idiots. Damn its funny though. :D

WC
 
Did I hear that Bin Laden is about to post a video on the internet in the near future :eek:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/07/2026540.htm

more directed at the protestors ...
I think in the final analysis, (and speaking as a Sydney sider) :eek:
Give the cops more help in my opinion - sort out the world's problems "next week" -
lol - oops 11th is next week
make that the week after next :(

But having said that - no way should the Chasers get a jail sentence !!! -
or if they do, so should the cops as someone posted back there lol.
 

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