Well, not really. But I work across the road from a pub. Every couple of days, I see a stack of maybe 20-30 kegs just outside their back door. They're either waiting to be picked up, or waiting to be taken inside. Either way, they sit outside unattended for way too long. Thank goodness I don't have a wicked bone in my body otherwise one of them would surely go for a little walk. But really, you'd think something as precious as that would be looked after a bit better.
Actually, my during my lunchtime travels I often see things being left out the back of pubs and cafes that really shouldn't be unattended. The other day, I passed a cafe that had several large tubs of mayonaise that had be delivered to their back door and forgotton about. I made a mental note not to eat their potato salad for a few days ;0
Breweries and pubs aren't very happy when kegs go missing. Having said that, I've been offered a few 50 litre kegs and would take the offer up but I can't brew that much beer at once at this stage, don't have any kegging equipment and am far from having a fridge big enough to store a number of these kegs
I bought a keg from a scrap metal merchant. It was from a long-closed brewery. If you ring around you should be able to find one. I think I paid about $35 a couple of years back.
I'm just surprised at how relaxed so many pubs are about security. A couple of thousand dollars worth of merchandise shouldn't really be left outside for long periods of time. At the very least, it just shows a complete lack of respect for the beer
Its a whole lot of respect for the general public to trust us not to nicking them.... or roll them down the road on the way home forom the pub!
Respect
Cheers
Silk
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When I was in Japan I couldn't get over the number of unprotected, free-standing vending machines selling beer, scotch, sake etc. on street corners in the big cities.
I told a Japanese girl that in Australia the boys would be backing up the ute, taking the whole thing home and you'd never see it again.
Go spend some time in a Japanese jail. They aren't the same as what we are used to and this then is a good deterent to backing up and driving off with the vending machine.
When I was in the navy we stopped in at Tokyo. Some of the lads thought it would be a good idea to steal a car, the Japanese weren't about to let them go just on the fact that the were Canadians or to improve Country relations. The weren't the same when they got home and there Japanese was pretty good to.
Dogger
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
Go spend some time in a Japanese jail. They aren't the same as what we are used to and this then is a good deterent to backing up and driving off with the vending machine.
When I was in Tokyo, it never ceased to amaze me the number of bicycles (sometimes quite expensive ones) that were either left unlocked, or only locked with a flimsy padlock. In a city that size, that's remarkable. I seriously don't think I'd ever want to find out how bad the prisons are if they can be THAT much of a deterant.
I think this all goes to prove that our piss weak legal system needs a major shake up. The wallopers run around risking life and limb to catch the crooks, then the soft cock magistrates let them go with a telling off. Even the bloody crims on the inside dictate the terms and complain about food quality, living standards etc. what happened to hard labour and bread and water, maybe people wouldn't be in such a hurry to pinch things if we went back to that. When I was a young bloke, living in a country town in SA, it was nothing to leave your ute in the street, keys in it and a rifle on the back window ledge, without any fear of it getting pinched, try that now!
The rifle on the back window ledge alone would bring the TRG helicopter swooping like a springtime magpie. Never mind the politically correct tossers running in abject fear of thier lives that a firearm (farming tool or sporting equipment as applicable) could be seen in public this side of a TV screen.
don't forget that now they term it a crime to leave your keys in your vehicle! Bloody legal system has gone to pot, drug dealers walk free and fine defaulters get locked up. Makes no sense to me
Some people say I have a drinking Problem....
I drink, I get drunk, I fall over....
What's the problem?
Just to complete the thread hijack (sorry TF) there is some sanity left. A bloke who killed a burglar the other day may walk- as per today's Age:
Suspect treated for sword wounds
A Narre Warren man spent last night in the secure ward of St Vincent's Hospital as homicide detectives prepared to interview him over a bungled burglary in which he was injured and his alleged accomplice killed on Wednesday.
The man, 19, and another man, 23, allegedly forced their way into a house in Arnold Street, Noble Park, about 12.30am on Wednesday brandishing a samurai sword and a gun.
They tied up and assaulted residents Johnny Nguyen, 32, and his partner Brooke inside the house before Mr Nguyen broke free, disarmed the 23-year-old attacker and fatally slashed him with the samurai sword.
The intruders had demanded cash before terrorising the two residents, police said.
Mr Nguyen, 32, is then believed to have chased the 19-year-old down the street, causing deep cuts to his arm and leg. The 23-year-old, of no fixed address, died at the scene.
Mr Nguyen briefly returned to the house yesterday morning and sped away in a car without making any comment.
Homicide squad detectives yesterday collected the Narre Warren man from Dandenong Hospital before a warrant of imprisonment was served on him for an unrelated crime. The 19-year-old, dressed in a blue-and-white hospital gown, covered his face with a pillowcase as a nurse pushed his wheelchair to a police sedan yesterday afternoon. His left leg was in plaster. Police said he was being kept last night in the custody of the Office of Corrections while receiving treatment for his injuries at a secure ward of St Vincent's Hospital.
Homicide squad detectives are expected to make an application soon to interview him over the burglary.
Police said on Wednesday that they were yet to decide whether to charge Mr Nguyen, but they believed that he was defending himself.
Police will not release the name of the 23-year-old dead man at the request of his family. They said he was well known to police in the outer south-eastern suburbs.
Crime scene cleaners spent most of yesterday working at the Arnold Street house.
Theres been a few people who hurt or locked up burglars who have been sued by the burgalars :/ My brother went to court the other day for 2 DUI's and only got 3 months license suspension (he got to serve both DUI's concurrently)
