Shocking video has emerged of gatecrashers violently breaking into an Aussie music festival over the weekend.
The incident is just the latest to besiege electronic festival Listen Out, following a similar security breach at the Sydney event last week which resulted in a security guard being hospitalised.
The latest incident happened at the Perth leg, with newly published video footage showing a large group of gatecrashers pulling down the security fence as stunned patrons and security look on. An outnumbered and bewildered security guard can be seen hopelessly looking on as a huge number of gatecrashers stampede into the festival once the fence has been toppled.
There are no reports of fence-jumping at the Melbourne or Brisbane legs of the festival tour, however a music journalist was led very red-faced after their disparaging notes about an artist were left for the artist to find after an interview.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, who in the notes was said to be “fucking boring to interview”, took it all in his stride posting the note to his Facebook page with the caption “One of the funniest things ever to happen to me on tour!! (Don’t leave your interview notes behind kids).”
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On a more serious note, police are still appealing for public assistance for witnesses to the gatecrashing incident in Sydney that left a security guard injured.
The guard was responding to a large group of gatecrashers who forced their way through event fencing into Randwick’s Centennial Park at about 4:40pm.
“As the 29-year-old man was responding to the rush, he fell to the ground and a person landed heavily on his abdomen,” a police statement said. “The guard was able to walk to a stage area before collapsing.”
He was treated at the scene by ambulance paramedics before being taken to St Vincent’s Hospital with a ruptured spleen and internal bleeding. According to police he is currently in a stable condition in hospital.
It’s the latest incident as summer music festival season begins. A week ago seven people have been hospitalised while a further 83 have been arrested at the Defqon.1 music festival, also in Sydney.
Despite calls for an end to the sniffer dogs following the tragic death of James Munro last year, police doubled their presence to over 200 officers from Penrith Local Area Command, the North West Metropolitan Region and the Dog Squad.
During the operation police conducted 372 person searches with 83 drug detections. Of the drug arrests, seven were for drug supply offences, while one person was arrested for having 250 pills of what is alleged to be MDMA.
About 350 people received medical treatment for drug and heat-related illnesses with seven taken to Nepean Hospital for further treatment.
