whufc wrote:stan wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:locky801 wrote:
Bar was supposed to have shut at 11.00pm, someone may have further questions to answer
Hmmm, maybe it did, maybe that's why they were still on the beer, could've been from the mini bar, could've had a box in someone's room? It may have been an outside area that didn't require a licence.
I just think it's piss poor that we got to see it, I think Thorpe is a dickhead, all the players seemed to be in reasonable nick for an all-nighter and any sort of laughter would've echoed in that enclosed area.
I did enjoy the footage of the Aussies singing "Sweet Caroline" with the Barmy Army, how good would it have been to be there?
Absolute garbage that this is even a thing.
Obviously at some point I think they would have been carrying on a bit more.....my experience is the police don't generally get called unless there is some sort of disturbance. You would have thought at some point the hotel staff have asked them to either be quieter or to finish up and they have refused to do so which is why the police are in attendance. Would be poor form if the hotel called the police first up and never spoke to the guys first.
In saying that it all looks extremely harmless and worse case scenario they were keeping a few patrons awake.....hardly end of world stuff especially given what type of behaviour we have seen previously from sports stars.
I'm guessing the only reason Thorpe could have posted the footage is that he thought the amount of police there was massive overkill (which I tend to agree with looking at the footage we see) and wanted to let everyone know how 'over the top' they were.
I'm so glad most of my partying was done in the era before mobile phones...…..nothing but trouble on a night out even when your not really causing any trouble.
There is a suggestion Thorpe was smoking a cigar inside, that's when the call was made to get the cops along.
By the time the cops arrived, they had moved outside, and Thorpe pulled his phone out to try and show they weren't doing anything wrong.
He tried to get on the front foot after being a goose smoking inside, and instead of compiling evidence to protect himself, he's thrown himself under the bus.