Drunk Aussie Threatens To Destroy Brisbane With TV Remote February 8, 2008

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There are many uses for a TV remote, including the classic 'throw it at your TV', but Australian, Geoffrey Martin Fryatt, must have a really special one since he threatened to blow up Brisbane with his.

Having had one or six too many, 56-year old Fryatt who lived at Fairways Golf and Lifestyle Retreat in Brisbane decided to threaten his neighbours with a knife and claim that he was going to detonate a store of chemicals with his TV remote.

"One push of the button will blow up half of Brisbane," he roared during his stand-off with cops last May. They responded by shooting him with rubber bullets. The judge this week imposed a one-year probation sentence.

Here’s irony for you though. Fryatt said that it might interrupt his plans to travel overseas to carry out “humanitarian aid work”. Hahahahahahahaha…

The judge replied: "Let's get you right before we send you off to a third world country."-Martin Lynch

[Reuters]

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