Another year, another Listen Out event, another incident involving gatecrashers swarming festival gates en masse and breaking their way into the festival, and yet more depressing footage of it.
As Nine News reports, police were called to Perth’s Western Parklands in Joondalup after a few hundred gatecrashers swarmed the perimeter fence, overwhelming security guards working the popular EDM festival.
Six squad cars attended the venue and three people were reportedly arrested following altercations with police. Sadly, it’s not the first time that Listen Out has been forced to deal with fence-jumpers.
As Tone Deaf reported this time last year — in a repeat of events that ensued the previous year — a number of would-be punters were caught on camera attempting to break through a wire fence at Perth’s Ozone Reserve.
As footage at the time showed, after breaking through a wire fence, the gatecrashers were forced to run back and scramble when they hit a second fence, right as a car of police officers arrived.
In 2014, a 29-year-old security guard was left with a ruptured spleen and suffered internal bleeding after he was trampled over by a horde of gatecrashers who rushed the fence during the Sydney leg of Listen Out.
See the footage via Nine News here.
