My schoolies story

[Iamdan]

People seemed to like the weekend story I wrote a while back so I thought Id write another. Yeah Dan is writing another story about the stupid crap he and his friends get up to, and we got on national news this time.

 

 

 

For you non Aussies, schoolies is basically like spring break but for the end of high school. Everybody goes to the coast for a week for basically drinking sex and dancing, occasionally all at the same time.

 

 

 

Most people book through schoolies and pay 700-1200$ EACH just for a hotel for the week. However I procrastinated like usual and got a place at the last minute much better than any of our other friends for just $200 each with 3 people. Best thing was that we didnt book through schoolies so we didnt have the huge restrictions like guards checking the place for extra people and risking being evicted for doing almost anything wrong. In the schoolies apartments you needed photo ID to get in and the security guards checked everybody after 10pm. We got in another friends apartment after 10 once by jumping the fence, but we got lucky because the guards were taking care of something else that was going down.

 

 

 

Naturally our place was the party, where a good 10-20 friends were over constantly which was pretty awesome. However I still cant understand how we didnt get all kicked out Here is a list of things that were done which if the world were fair, we would have been kicked out straight away.

 

 

 

Letting like 10 people crash each night when the max was 5

 

Making noise - We got asked 2-3 times each night to keep it down

 

Using the fire exit to get to other rooms and partying (triggers silent alarm)

 

Running into strangers rooms and partying

 

Stealing alcohol from said rooms

 

Hooking up with girls, in other random peoples apartments. (To avoid being c***blocked by their friends)

 

Urine being expelled from the balcony

 

Urine being expelled from other peoples balconies

 

Nearly getting into a fight with people from another room

 

 

 

Yeah were idiots, but cmon its schoolies.

 

 

 

Anyway we had a blast and did heaps of stuff but thats not the point of the story.

 

Wednesday night we were in our place dancing and playing drinking games, when one of my friends went for a walk. Ill call him Lunt. All he had were footy shorts - no shoes, shirt, phone etc.

 

Meanwhile we are still all partying etc, its raining so we arent keen on going to the beach party. Toups makes a bet with his Cadbury girlfriend that she cant down a wine glass full of beer. 30 seconds later hes $50 poorer and Ive found somebody to shout me dinner later.

 

By then it was around 11 and J was getting pretty wasted, obnoxious and on my nerves so I politely suggested that he went for a walk. Clifford said he would take him.

 

 

 

Two other friends, say Toups and Nickel, got bored and went out looking for Lunt.

 

 

 

Let me just hold the story for a second and describe what these three guys are like.

 

 

 

They all play rugby and not scared to get in a fight, Nickel and Toups are both Fijian.

 

 

 

Nickel is probably the only gangsta that I get along with. Hes the most aggressively assertive guy I know, but hes got a good heart. I wasnt too keen on him staying but most people there were probably too scared of him to agree with me. He was buying food for us and shouting boxes of beer so I decided not to be the party pooper. Plus he was one of the two 18 year olds with us and could buy alcohol. I usually buy grog for us but they card absolutely everybody at schoolies. In one of the places I tried, they asked some guy who looked about 35 for ID.

 

 

 

Lunt is one of my better friends, but he does get in trouble when he hangs around with Nickel. Hes as big as I am and did athletics with me.

 

 

 

Toups is Js cousin, is also gangsta and I dont really know him. He also gets in trouble when around Nickel. Im not friends with him, but he is friends of friends of mine.

 

 

 

Anyway after they all left at around 12:30am I was keen for a feed so me and Toups girlfriend along with CB went to a petrol station and she bought me the best tasting pies Ive ever had. They were scummy petrol station pies so it was probably just because I was drunk and starving.

 

 

 

One the way back, around 100m from our apartment a bus pulled up and dropped off none other than J and Clifford. They saw us and got all Hey wow its you guys, where are we? Oh hey thats our apartment! They had walked to the beach party, then got on a random bus later on and got off at a random stop and somehow ended up back at our apartment. They then went for another walk. The next morning they couldnt even remember leaving our apartment in the first place, or how they got back in theirs.

 

 

 

We get back to the apartment at like 1-1:30am and keep drinking for a while. Nickel and Toupss girlfriends are getting worried and keep ringing/texting Toups who was the only one of the three with a phone. I tell them to settle down and get some sleep and I go to bed.

 

 

 

7:30am I wake up and the two girls look like they havent slept. Nickels girl had cleaned our whole apartment and done our laundry. They had also gone out and bought us breakfast. I hungrily ran into the kitchen to find a whole lot of. McDonalds. There is a god, and he hates me. I thought briefly about putting tomato sauce on my shoes and eating that instead but I ended up eating the maccas. Nickels girlfriend actually offered to go out again and buy me something else but Im not quite that much of a jerk so I said it was fine. I decided I liked Nickels girl.

 

 

 

They told me Lunt, Nickel and Toups had been arrested and they were freaking out. The police had answered Toupss phone and told them they all got arrested, but they couldnt say what for. They were to go to court and be out by 9-9:30 on bail. My first thought was they had done something stupid and minor like getting into a fight (there were lots at schoolies and were just broken up by police, rather than arrests being made) or being drunk and disorderly. It was only the two girls, B, me and CB left so I woke the two other guys up and we drove to the courthouse. The girls were stressing but our car had a pretty light mood. B was a bit annoyed that he had to risk a DUI but we were making jokes the whole way about our dumb friends.

 

 

 

We drive around and find the courthouse, park and come in at 9am. We havent showered and were tired but still in a jokey mood. We asked some random lady who looked important where to go and she asked who they were. I told her it was three schoolies who were probably being charged with being morons. The look she gave us killed my jokey mood. She said she didnt know a whole lot about it, but they had apparently bashed some guy and it was serious. She pointed us to the right courtroom and we went in with our minds racing.

 

 

 

They were handing a bunch of appeals for bail so that got boring but there were some highlights in the morning including a kid who was actually in court for stealing a muffin from a juice bar. He stuffed it down his pants so I wasnt sure if he was planning on eating it or what but he ended up being let off on good behavior.

 

 

 

The judge made a bunch of hilarious jokes about it being a juicy story and that case taking the cake. All the lawyers and police in the room were laughing their [wagon] off and I was just kinda sitting there wondering how the heck this twit became a magistrate.

 

 

 

In some of the duller moments we talked some hot lady who told us she was a lawyer, who asked us a bunch of questions and then gave us some information about what was happening. When we went out to put money in the parking meter, the lady who showed us the right courtroom told us there was media everywhere and not to talk to anyone. Oh, Damn... What a snake.

 

 

 

I then named the lawyer we talked to in the courtroom the hot snake. As soon as we stepped outside they had cameras on us from channel 7, 9 and 10. The hot snake asked us for an interview and I laughed at her. I was getting annoyed by it all We had been waiting for 2 hours, been gypped out of some information from the media, plus there was some guy in there who cut his girlfriend up with a machete and they were still filming us feeding the meter.

 

Ratings I guess. Nobody cares about a crazy guy with a machete but when some drunk idiots get in a fight at schoolies its AHHMAGOD TEEN DELINQUANTS FIGHTING AT SCHOOLIES AGAIN!!! THE THUGS FRIENDS SHOW NO REMORSE FOR THEIR ACTIONS AS THEY PUT MONEY IN THE PARKING METER!! MONEY THEY PROBABLY EARNED BY DEALING DRUGS AND ROBBING BLIND PEOPLE! Man I hate the media.

 

 

 

We went back inside and found a real lawyer for another case who was nice enough to check out what was happening, what the charges were and why it was taking so long etc. It turned out one of the three took a phone, so the charge is robbery with actual violence which is apparently a serious charge. He also said the courts hadnt got some papers or something so thats why it was taking so long. I then realized why the lawyer was so nice when he gave us his cards to give to our friends.

 

 

 

At 12noon the magistrate adjourned the court for 2 hours. So much for out by 9:30. We went to have lunch with cameras following us for a while, picked up J and Clifford and went back to the court.

 

 

 

After abusing the cameramen we went back into the courtroom and waited. It really hadnt sunk in until I saw my friends in handcuffs being escorted by police into the room. They couldnt even look at us. I cant even explain it or why, but seeing our friends like that hit us hard. The girls were crying and the guys lost their jokey mood and were letting the days events sink in. They got released on bail and we got told they would come out a door on the side. When we got there, holy media. There were 25-30 people there with cameras and microphones. At around 4-5pm, after 7 hours of waiting, Lunt came out.

 

 

 

Within 5 seconds media transformed from a group of friendly chatty people to a bunch of f*cking vultures. B, me and CB took Lunt back alone because they couldnt contact each other as part of their bail agreement. Cameras were being shoved into our faces from every angle before he even got outside the gate.

 

We were standing at the gate blocking most of the cameras view, and I kept on one of the more persistent guys. He kept pushing me out of the way, and I kept blocking him until he pushed me hard enough so I smacked my head on the metal bars. Resisting the very strong urge to make him eat both his own legs and camera I stepped back so Lunt could get through, and we walked him to the car doing the best we could to cover the camera lenses. Lunt just walked along pleading with them to leave him alone.

 

 

 

I was then pushed hard a second time and nearly fell on hot snake. I had put up with enough crap for the day and stupidly snapped. If it wasnt for B and CB and a passing cop holding me back I would have broken the guys neck. Im not even kidding. I calmed myself down after a couple seconds and luckily the cop emphasized with me and just told us to get in the car and leave. (Me flipping out didnt end up on tv which was good, it would have made it a lot worse) I was in the back seat with lunt in the middle and we drove off with me flipping off the camera that was right up against the back window.

 

 

 

Lunt gave us his story and Ill tell you now: Dont ever get arrested and put in a watch house. Seriously. I wont go into details but with all the filth, physically and verbally abusive police, and crazy people in there one night alone was enough to make Lunt not want to fight ever again. He said he felt dirty after being in there.

 

 

 

We watched it on the news and Ill tell you if you saw it, it was blown right out of proportion.

 

 

 

The guy was talking about how he was getting his head stomped and kicked, when there was only one mark on his face. Lunt said he hit him once before slipping and hurting himself after getting a weak shot in the guys rips. His story made sense because he told me earlier, and the guy showed a little mark on his face as well as pointing to his ribs with no marks. Lunt said after he fell he looked over and the guy was on the ground with the other two standing over him. Toups took the phone and they didnt know until after, but the police didnt believe them and charged them all with robbery. Toups was also the one who was hitting the guy in the head. Lunt said the other two talked him into starting a group of people so he called out to them, they said stuff back and forth until lunt punched the guy and it went on from there.

 

 

 

The guys friends came on and went on about there was nothing we could do, however it was 3 on 3 until they ran away and dogged their friend. Then the kid came back on again and said a bunch of stuff obviously given to him by the reporters and that was it. I was so disappointed because we waited around for 7 hours and still didnt end up on tv

 

 

 

It is a serious matter, but it was really just a fight. I know the majority of this forum probably isnt the party type but fights happen when drinking all the time. Ive seen a lot and only 2 got out of hand, one of them had permanent injuries, both of them being out of hand because there was over 15 people in the fight. After people mature they stop fighting and everybody forgets about the bruises and bloody noses.

 

 

 

Its obvious they screwed up and did something really stupid, but it was blown out of proportion so much. The guy was fine, had just one mark on him and he was just as keen to fight as the others. It was only on the news because it was at schoolies, and the only reason why he was the victim was because his friends ran away, probably to put on dresses

 

 

 

Ive learned not to trust current affairs stories, they only exist to get ratings and earn money. The real news is good because it informs, and is a lot less bias. I also now know that I hate reporters, media cameramen and hot snakes.

 

 

 

The guys go back to court in 2 weeks, I was told that since it is their first offense let alone similar offenses, they are pretty much guaranteed to just get a light fine and a record.

[l0rd]

Eh, I don't really care about your vacation. Idk if this even belongs in off-topic.

 

 

 

Sounds like you had fun though.

[Furah]

You have more patience then me, I woul have broken the guys camera by 'pushing' it out of the was in a manner that it broke by my fist or hitting the ground, and I never trust the media anyways.

[nickeley102]

i live in nz. this stuff happens all the time here too. a month ago we had a riot where we earnt the top award for party rowdiness, the 'trifecta', when you get the police, the ambulance and the fire engines at the same time. i got beaten by riot police and my friend was arrested for throwing a burning couch into their path. ahh being a professional student.

 

 

 

that was the middle of a fourteen day binge

[justin_m23]

I go on schoolies tomorrow. :lol:

[Furah]

won't have one, I left school, not even going to the formal 8-)

 

 

 

forced to go to the awards assembly thing though :wall:

[Wongtong]

So was it put on the news?

[Iamdan]

won't have one, I left school, not even going to the formal 8-)

 

Why? Both formal and schoolies is one in a lifetime.

 

So was it put on the news?

 

Yeah it was on 3 channels, and I don't know how many newspapers. I found a couple articles on the net. These guys are the ones banned from the gold coast until their next court session as part of the bail agreement.

 

You have more patience then me, I woul have broken the guys camera by 'pushing' it out of the was in a manner that it broke by my fist or hitting the ground, and I never trust the media anyways.

 

I really wanted to, but I figured it wouldn't be worth it with it being right outside a courthouse and a police station surrounded by the media.

[Furah]

won't have one, I left school, not even going to the formal 8-)

 

Why? Both formal and schoolies is one in a lifetime.

 

 

 

I'll have a better night staying with some mates an setting up a LAN party, or just causing havock in town (not like we ever do :anxious: *cough*rooftopincient*cough*)

[jemathonical]

Schoolies next year \ . Looking forward to it. Don't think I'll go to Gold Coast, seems like there is too many toolies and [bleep]ers there getting into fights and crap.

[Lenticular_J]

I [bleep]ing hate news folks. That's why I've made every single one of my friends vow to take me away if media ever comes near me. I will snap, and will get [bleep]ed for it.

 

 

 

Ah well, at least you had a ... good? time.

[MC_Kejml]

Dang, I so envy your schoolies. We are planning a similar nonformal "trip" with my friends, but we don't know if we'll make it. Sounds you had a lot of fun, I so envy you :)

 

 

 

Anyway about the thing... Be glad it's over, if you have had injured the media in anger, it would probably been worse :/

[Lenin64]

won't have one, I left school, not even going to the formal 8-)

 

 

 

forced to go to the awards assembly thing though :wall:

 

So does that mean no Dr. Frag?

 

 

 

And wait, was she not really a lawyer?

[Tim]

never got my schoolies :(

 

 

 

all my fiends didnt have jobs and were totally lazy so i got stuck home drinking on my own. 100% pitiful. -.-

 

 

 

Schoolies next year \ . Looking forward to it. Don't think I'll go to Gold Coast, seems like there is too many toolies and [bleep]ers there getting into fights and crap.

 

Goto Forster in NSW. calm, good and has quite a few good beaches. best of all, only a 2hr drive from me. I can come annoy you. =D

[evil_mumm_ra]

never got my schoolies :(

 

 

 

all my fiends didnt have jobs and were totally lazy so i got stuck home drinking on my own. 100% pitiful. -.-

 

 

 

 

 

Schoolies next year \ . Looking forward to it. Don't think I'll go to Gold Coast, seems like there is too many toolies and [bleep]ers there getting into fights and crap.

 

Goto Forster in NSW. calm, good and has quite a few good beaches. best of all, only a 2hr drive from me. I can come annoy you. =D

 

 

 

run far away jem. go on the opposite side of the country or something. just far far away.

[Shiny]

Do I get a reimbursement on the time wasted to read that?

 

 

 

Or if your being cheap a tl;dr?

[Iamdan]

Do I get a reimbursement on the time wasted to read that?

 

 

 

Or if your being cheap a tl;dr?

 

 

 

No tl;dr's. If you want to be a better person then just read it.

[____]

Schoolies next year \ . Looking forward to it. Don't think I'll go to Gold Coast, seems like there is too many toolies and [bleep]ers there getting into fights and crap.

 

It's the Gold Coast, too many toolies and [bleep]ers there in general even without Schoolies festivities happening. And the mix of partying and drunk teenage girls just brings out more. I personally didn't go to Schoolies (I live a half an hour north, to hell with paying inflated prices to stay down there) but I went 2 years later, just for some night stuff with my then graduating GF. We didn't stay long, like 2-3hrs max then went "bugger this" and left. Too many douches around the place to really make it enjoyable but I have to give credit to the organizers: they seem to be making it safer for registered Schoolies every year.

[baron8000]

How old are you and your friends?

 

 

 

I'm trying to find a way to justify any of the things you (or to be honest, mostly what your friends) did, but to be frank, I'm stuck.

[jgrazotis]

wow, wish i saw it on the news

 

 

 

i dont know what im gonna do in schoolies week, dont know if im going to the gold coast, probably just philip island, i liv in victoria and i just finished yr 10

 

hmm im going up to the gold coast next thurs and getting back the tuesday after, its a trip with school mostly for the people that arent doing VCE but any1 can go, i hope that all the schoolies have gone home, not lookin forward to a mega-packed gold coast where theres drunk 18yr olds everywhere lookin for a fight

[Iamdan]

How old are you and your friends?

 

 

 

I'm trying to find a way to justify any of the things you (or to be honest, mostly what your friends) did, but to be frank, I'm stuck.

 

 

 

17-18. There isn't anything to justify, just some friends having fun. (or in the case of the fight, friends being dumb) They were drunk and keen for a brawl, and so was the other guy and his friends. Then they were mistaken for people that robbed some place at the Q1, searched and when the phones were found it hit the fan.

[baron8000]

Well, as I read it (and please correct me if I'm wrong) one of the people you knew stole a phone? 3 of your friends hit a person hard enough to leave marks on his head? Those are the things I'm having problems with. The other stuff (setting off silent fire alarms, peeing where peeing should not occur and mass alcohol and all its resulting actions) don't really bother me, they are all fairly immature pranky/jerky behaviour and frankly have nothing on what you will see at university.

 

 

 

Its just the whole assault and robbery thing I'm having a problem with.

 

 

 

EDIT - forgot to say something, I have a massive amount of sympathy with you regarding your friends and your experiences with the press, journalists are remorseless vultures on occasion and even though your friends did what they did, that is a matter for the police and courts, not for them to sell newspapers on the back of.

[Iamdan]

Well, as I read it (and please correct me if I'm wrong) one of the people you knew stole a phone? 3 of your friends hit a person hard enough to leave marks on his head? Those are the things I'm having problems with. The other stuff (setting off silent fire alarms, peeing where peeing should not occur and mass alcohol and all its resulting actions) don't really bother me, they are all fairly immature pranky/jerky behaviour and frankly have nothing on what you will see at university.

 

 

 

Its just the whole assault and robbery thing I'm having a problem with.

 

 

 

It was a little mark, and they do happen easily on the face. Toups is the guy I'm not friends with, he took the phone which is the main thing i disagreed with.

 

 

 

Yeah, not keen on the reporters etc. They don't care about the people, they just want a good story.

[baron8000]

Well, as I read it (and please correct me if I'm wrong) one of the people you knew stole a phone? 3 of your friends hit a person hard enough to leave marks on his head? Those are the things I'm having problems with. The other stuff (setting off silent fire alarms, peeing where peeing should not occur and mass alcohol and all its resulting actions) don't really bother me, they are all fairly immature pranky/jerky behaviour and frankly have nothing on what you will see at university.

 

 

 

Its just the whole assault and robbery thing I'm having a problem with.

 

 

 

It was a little mark, and they do happen easily on the face. Toups is the guy I'm not friends with, he took the phone which is the main thing i disagreed with.

 

 

 

That makes much more sense, I kind of lost track which names were which friends; I had trouble seeing how you could defend theft.

 

 

 

Regarding the mark thing; it doesn't really matter how easily you get marks on the face - as soon as your friends are throwing punches, kicks or whatever at another person's face then there's something wrong. I know that fights can happen when drunk but they are almost always little grappley scuffles that don't really amount to much (and I could see how that could be let go). As soon as actually punches get thrown and marks get left then its serious - whilst your friends certainly don't deserve the level of press attention they have been recieving - you have to realise what they have done is wrong, and indefensible; your friends have committed a crime, being drunk is not an excuse, and there don't seem to be any issues of provocation/self defence or similar. This is what I have trouble justifying.

[Iamdan]

I guess that's where we see differently. I don't see any real problem with fights as long as it's fair at the start of the fight, and it doesn't get out of hand. I still think it is dumb, because obviously it can get out of hand and the whole law issue. I guess I have mixed feeling on it, but really just see it as like ufc without regulations.

 

 

 

I do wish they don't have to go through all the crap afterward, but I still acknowledge that they've done the crime and should be punished like everyone else and there isn't any excuse for what happened.