Think you will find a lot of people did not think it was anything other than stupid - I know of no less than eleven articulate people who wrote letters to the press condemning the stunt and not one was published...which would appear to suggest a certain bias on the part of the media for their colleagues rather than a reflection of public opinion.

the masters of the universe have got an advanced case of the 'ozymandias'syndrome, shown up by chasers in their current high school revue:"what we did at apec." looking forward to next acts, hoping for water cannon and tasers, disappointed the mounted police are driving buses. where are the "socialist workers" support act, anyway?

Do you know what amazes me?

All the people screaming about how the Chaser guys have "embarrassed Australia" or acted irresponsibly seem to have missed one vital point.

The security system failed, this was a hole in the security system that you could literally drive a bomb through. Instead of venting at the Chaser guys, shouldn't we be asking questions of the Police Commissioner? Or the Minister For Security

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Now, if Chaser Chas had pulled out a machine gun, things might have been
different, but of course Chas was never going to do that.
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If someone got the wrong idea the Chasers cameraman would not have
been the first cameraman to have his camera mistaken for a weapon.
There are a few dead cameramen because of that and media organisations
should be more aware of that than any of us.

Well I must admit that there could have been some danger of someone being shot.

If the police snipers are as incompetent as the rest of the bunch seem to be then someone could have been hurt.
Probably not Chaser but the cop standing near him.

Do the police have women snipers?

Bazz, how many times have camera men been shot in situations where camera men are expected?

Please provide citations.

Sylvia.