A Bit Late On This One, But Priceless Nonetheless
Setting the scene: There's a shooting in King's Cross, Sydney - an area infamous for many decades as being high on crime and low on...not crime. Anyways, it's the only suburb The Mother Monster used to lock the cars doors as we drove through. I believe it's much better these days than it used to be, but still a typical gathering tradition for drunken bogans and Aussies of all colours to have a bit of a random punch up after a long night on the sauce. Lovely! A girl who witnessed the shooting is interviewed by the media - she starts spouting off the word 'wog' (which is a derogatory term in Australia, most commonly used in the 70's, and typically aimed at Australians of Greek or Italian heritage), how the "fatter wog" who shot the "skinny wog" was going to get all his "fully sick boys"...and then he shot him. This is a good example of what we call a bogan - in America, she's known as white trash.
Click to viewShe becomes instant Internet celebwhore, with t-shirts, obligatory amateur remixes on YouTube, and a publicist to handle all the attention heading her way. Most Australians would find the entire thing delightful - because we love a good bogan, especially one who does the work for us. However, the best part is, she's just come clean on lying about witnessing the entire thing.
Other highlights include the girl with the testicle-removers dragging her boyfriend (?) away from the media, saying "You've seen enough!", and the guy who thought the shooting was "Awesome!" Makes me proud, and oddly, nostalgic - the drunken accents, mind.