Speaker A
No, they can't keep you there. Who's it? My mom. No, I'm going. No, mate, sit down.
Lifeguards and police confront teens involved in theft and disruptive behavior at Bondi Beach, highlighting challenges in beach safety and youth crime.
Key Takeaways
- Effective observation and teamwork between lifeguards and police are crucial for beach safety.
- Youth theft and disruptive behavior can escalate quickly, requiring prompt intervention.
- Covert surveillance helps identify and apprehend suspects involved in gang-related theft.
- Drug and alcohol use among teens contributes to risky and confrontational behavior.
- Community safety depends on vigilance and coordinated response from authorities.
What the video covers
- Lifeguards at Bondi Beach confront teenagers suspected of stealing bags and causing disturbances.
- A teenage boy is held and questioned about stolen property but claims innocence.
- Police involvement leads to arrests, with suspects potentially facing juvenile detention.
- Lifeguards emphasize the importance of observation and prevention to maintain beach safety.
- Plain clothes detectives assist in covert surveillance to identify gang activity.
- The video shows the challenges of managing youth behavior and theft in a popular public space.
- Some teens are caught with stolen goods, while others deny wrongdoing despite suspicious behavior.
- The incident disrupts a day at the cricket for some victims whose belongings were stolen.
- Lifeguards and police work together to control the situation and ensure safety.
- The video highlights the impact of drugs and alcohol on youth behavior at the beach.
Chapters
- 00:00Initial confrontation with teens
- 00:27Victim spots suspect with stolen item
- 01:23Suspect denies ownership and flees
- 02:06Lifeguards detain and question suspect
- 03:05Importance of observation for prevention
- 04:01Intruders explore lifeguard tower
- 05:19Undercover surveillance begins
- 06:37Arrests and evidence collection
- 07:27Victims identify stolen belongings
- 08:05Police warnings and further arrests
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Speaker A
You. You're under arrest for offensive language. He's had half a bottle of vodka. He's taken an M.I.
Speaker A
Get the bottles off the beach and get rid of them. I can't do nothing for you.
Speaker A
How are they going to exist in the world? Their attitude is that screwed up.
Speaker A
Go around the back. I'll come around the back with you 'cause this is where they all got up.
Speaker A
Wow. The victim and his friend spot a teenager holding something very familiar. But the youngster isn't staying around for long.
Speaker A
They called up central. We've got him here on the run. Back of the park.
Speaker A
[music] Go again. Yeah, we've got the guy. He's on the bay. He's going up around the point of Tamar Park.
Speaker A
On your way, boys? No way. Yeah, he's going, going. Just got him. Central, copy that. Hold him down nice and strong.
Speaker A
Next to Bondi Surf Club, lifeguards are holding a teenage boy suspected [music] of stealing a bag.
Speaker A
We asked him, "Is it your bag?" He said, "No, it's mine." And then this guy said, "I know my bag." And then the next moment he started running.
Speaker A
Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Listen. Hello. Hi. Yeah, they're saying they have to keep me here.
Speaker A
Who's this? No, they can't keep you there. Who's it? My mom. Well, you'll have a chance to explain it to her in a minute, all right, when the police are off.
Speaker A
No, I'm going. No, mate, sit down. Don't. You can't. Sit down, mate. Yeah.
Speaker A
I'm 13 years old. Doesn't matter, mate. You have been suspected of stealing. Well, can I go to the toilet?
Speaker A
In a minute you can go, mate. But for now, just relax. I can't. My leg is... Just take the weight off it. Sit down.
Speaker A
No, it's gone. He's been suspected of something. If he's done nothing, he'll have his chance to explain and he can walk away.
Speaker A
But for now, he's been found holding stolen goods. [music] Anything you say or do will be recorded and can be... Stand up, put your hands behind your head.
Speaker A
The boy was held at Bondi police station, but due to his age was later released with a caution. As Beady patrols the water's edge at Backpackers Rip, the tower is unattended.
Speaker A
Oh, come, come in here. It's all black. We leave some of our belongings in there or there's just binoculars and things that we use to do our job then we can't have any of that essential kit go missing.
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[music] The key to prevention is observation. [music] Once we see something from there, then we can direct our staff to move it.
Speaker A
I think the key to good lifeguarding is a really structured, well-placed observation point and that's exactly what we've got with our new tower.
Speaker A
And it's just aiding great safety down this end of the beach. Having had their fun, the intruders take off.
Speaker A
But have they left their run too late? I was looking for my shoe, but then I found my shoe.
Speaker A
Yeah, yeah, that's our towel. I just wondered why you went in and... Oh, 'cause I thought you guys would leave the shoe there. I'm so sorry.
Speaker A
Yeah, all right. That's all you did? What do you mean? Yeah, I promise. I promise I didn't do anything.
Speaker A
We didn't do nothing. We just looked at the binoculars a little bit to see if everyone's all right.
Speaker A
So, I go up there, there's nothing missing? No, no, there's not. I promise. Guys, I didn't steal anything. I was looking if everyone was okay and [ __ ] and everyone was all right.
Speaker A
They may have fudged the truth, but Biordi isn't about to make a big deal of it.
Speaker A
I was happy that they're just a couple of little kids. It's new to them. No one's in there to have a little look.
Speaker A
It's like the old abandoned house. You got to go in and have a look even though you shouldn't, but no real harm done.
Speaker A
Where? They're going in the pavilion? What were they wearing? Green hat and hat? Green hat, white? Green hat, white?
Speaker A
The black one and, oops, sorry. And there was another guy with tattoos and jogging bottoms on.
Speaker A
So, we were watching them other folks' backs when we were in the sea, and they were really suspicious.
Speaker A
Detective Biordi goes undercover. The guy green hat, white shirt. We've got a mate, the guy with green hat taking his white shirt off him.
Speaker A
Back off for round three, mate. We got him in clear sight. All right, keep an eye on that bloke around the corner.
Speaker A
Probably where they're dropping the gear back for him, then heading back on the beach.
Speaker A
Troy also joins in the covert surveillance. What's he doing with this bag? I don't know where his mate went.
Speaker A
Mate had the black tracksuit pants on. That's it. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
Speaker A
What? You saw him in the surf? Yeah, that's our lifeguard standing at the statue there.
Speaker A
Is that guy still around the corner there? Still there? Yeah, he's just in the archway there. You'll see him with no shirt on. He's just sitting there. With the bag there. I'm pretty sure the bag is still there.
Speaker A
Thanks, mate. Sweet. There's an allegation made today. All right, that you have been going through a handbag that's been stolen down the beach.
Speaker A
Whose phone's that? Whose phone's this? Yep. Mate's. Your mate's? Police try to establish whether the suspect is working in a gang. How did this bag get here? Get it. Oh, no. No, they were with them and they just
Speaker A
they left here and went back. So, the boys, the boys down the beach took this bag and brought it back up here for you.
Speaker A
Is that what you're saying? No, I'm just sitting here. I was with them and then they went off.
Speaker A
Now under arrest, the teenager potentially faces time in juvenile detention. Take stuff off. Take that off your head. You're going in the back of this truck here. What's your name?
Speaker A
Got him. See that? We got him. Got police. Got him under arrest. Got him for all the [ __ ] around there. Really?
Speaker A
With one alleged thief in hand, lifeguards keep watching the man in the green cap, possibly a second member of the gang.
Speaker A
See, that table was full of gear, mate. There was... Oh, he's just picked up that guy's bag. Did he really? Yeah. He did not have that bag on him when he walked down. Did he walk? Yep. Oh, behind the
Speaker A
tent. Watch. He's just got this guy's bag. Did he grab that guy's bag? Nah. No way. He didn't. He just picked that up. Black bag is the one he picked up. He's just put it on a little trolley.
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Stephen [music] Brent, who had their bags stolen on the way to the cricket, noticed something very familiar. He's wearing his hat and sunnies. Got his camera. Where's me? Where's the rest of me [ __ ] now? I don't know where the rest
Speaker A
of your [ __ ] is, mate. The idiot's wearing his hat and his sunnies with his camera around his shoulder.
Speaker A
With growing evidence a gang of thieves are operating, plain clothes detectives join in. We, we, we videoed him doing it.
Speaker A
He just picked up... I was just grabbing it off him, that's all. He just picked up his bag before that.
Speaker A
He's pretty lucky that the bloke didn't give him one around the chin, I reckon.
Speaker A
Last warning for your language. You. You're under arrest for offensive language. Sodomy. Stand up.
Speaker A
Stand up. Stand up. I don't want to walk. Can I grab my mate's bag?
Speaker A
No. Can I grab my mate's bag? Arrest me, please. You're under arrest. We had three reports of people's, um, bags being, well, taken off the beach so far. You have people can go in for a swim and maybe being in the water for half an
Speaker A
hour, 40 minutes. This has all happened over the last sort of hour, so who knows. We'll just see how much gear they actually have on them.
Speaker A
Ground's hot. That's why you're in a police station. The ground's hot, man. What else am I supposed to say?
Speaker A
I'd like those cigarettes after you, you've done what you have to do. There's a Zynach right there.
Speaker A
I want my smokes back, man. A second suspect is in custody, but the boy's big day at the cricket is still in ruins.
Speaker A
Hi. It was my hat. Could you help me out with... We're supposed to be at the cricket right now. So I'm seeing it.
Speaker A
Trying to get some money. Tickets for the cricket. Go on. Yeah, we've got three bucks and a car with no keys to get into the car and yeah, we're stuck.
Speaker A
At least Steve's g
Speaker A
I was down middle of the beach doing my thing on the the rhino and I was called in.
Speaker A
Yeah, so H, this is the group of um kids here. They're just digging their beer bottles into the sand and they're just smart asses. They just need to get the beer bottles out of the sand pretty much.
Speaker A
I saw in vision broken glass, which is just a no-no on the beach. Rather than charging, I sussed them out a little bit and straight away I could see the couple of ringleaders.
Speaker A
Pick up the bottles that you buried. Pick it up, brother. Good on you. Hey, there's one there. Now, imagine if your mum stepped on that, mate.
Speaker A
Mate, return them to my mother right now. Bang, I'm a goner. I'm going home.
Speaker A
As soon as I started to address them, I realized I knew exactly. They they are just clowns.
Speaker A
Pick up your bottles. There's one there, mate. No, no, come on. Don't Don't disrespect me.
Speaker A
Alcohol and littering are both prohibited on Bondi and H has decided to take out the trash.
Speaker A
All I've heard from you is your mouth flapping. They're the hardest things because you've got to try and get them to do what you want, but they won't do it like that. They have to do it in their way
Speaker A
and so they can layer eyes in front of their mates and Get the bottles off the beach and get your I'm picking them up. I can't do nothing for you. That's four for you, man. I can't do What about if you do five?
Speaker A
You should be on TV. Jesus Christ, what would you do with five? I've got four for you.
Speaker A
Do you talk in your sleep? It's just a darn shame that some of them don't have respect, which is an integral part of the the world from which I came.
Speaker A
Oh my god. Ben, Ben, Ben. LET ME SEE. OH, ARE YOUR BEST view is the back view?
Speaker A
How are they going to exist in the world? Their attitude is that screwed up.
Speaker A
The beer bottles [music] are taken away. Bondi's old man of the sea is victorious.
Speaker A
Yeah, mate. I had a bloke jump the fence at the back of um near the car park he's jumped over and he's stuck himself up, so You sort of get a call like that, alarm bells ringing you snap into action
Speaker A
pretty quick. Is he Is he one of your mates or you don't know? No, no, no, we we just saw him.
Speaker A
He went over the fence over the with the road he's landed down there. Off the off the wall here.
Speaker A
wall, yes. You hear that someone's fallen from a height, first thing you think is they've hit their head. You take those things pretty seriously.
Speaker A
It's a 2 and 1/2 m fall onto concrete. From far away he looked he looked he looked dead.
Speaker A
Doing a wheel. Yeah, go ahead. All right, where are you? Going to go and come give you a hand.
Speaker A
Brother, I'm just behind the hill up in that back car park there. All right, I've got it. He'll be there in a sec.
Speaker A
Buddy, hey. Mate. Hey. Hey. Rubbing the sternum is one way to assess consciousness. Hey, still wasn't responding, so I thought that there was something immediately wrong.
Speaker A
Hey, uh central, the bloke he's not very responsive. He's breathing. He smells like he's drunk a fair bit, but I think he might have done a bit of damage to himself.
Speaker A
Righto, mate. You want me to get an ambo down? I I reckon I'll probably get an ambo.
Speaker A
Yeah, for sure. I reckon he's halfway out of the line. Buddy. Wool can't be sure if the fall caused the teenager to become unconscious or something else.
Speaker A
Buddy. Yeah. So, you saw it it just from here? Did he land in between these?
Speaker A
Yeah, he landed in between there, yeah. Did he land on his feet or did he land on his feet? Didn't say that?
Speaker A
Didn't say that. Okay. That's when I came and got you guys. First-year lifeguard Will hasn't dealt with a medical emergency like this.
Speaker A
Buddy, still breathing. Yeah, hop the bloke's he's not responsive at all. He's breathing. Everything's pretty normal, but he's just not awake.
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Yeah, coming now. [music] Head lifeguard Hoppo, Gonzo, and off-duty lifeguard Harrison assist. First thing we did is we got in there and just did the sternum rub.
Speaker A
What's your name? When we found out he's conscious, went through all the checks for spinal.
Speaker A
I heard he's landed on his feet and fallen on his elbow. Will has had a look, he's not bleeding or anything from there.
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Gonzo and and myself worked out that he he had landed feet first. That was the the best of the worst situation.
Speaker A
All right, mate. Lifeguards are concerned he may also be drug and alcohol affected. Mate, can you tell us what you've taken, any alcohol or drugs?
Speaker A
Yeah. What have you taken, mate? Just so we can try and help you out.
Speaker A
What have you taken? Um Pills? MDMA. MDMA? MDMA. All right. As soon as we heard drugs were involved, we were thinking it might have been an overdose.
Speaker A
How much MDMA have you had? I was quite concerned. Just um He reeked of alcohol.
Speaker A
Alcohol? He's supposedly taken MDMA and I don't know how much he'd taken. How many?
Speaker A
The [music] person at the other end of his phone may have answers. Mate, I need to ask you a few questions.
Speaker A
How much How much has he had? He's told us he's taken MDMA. No, he's not he's just drinking something.
Speaker A
Mate, it's not it's not he's not getting into trouble. Mate, he's he's not going to get into trouble, but we just need to know because your mate's he's not in a good way.
Speaker A
No, I wouldn't mind you here. I've taken from what I know, he hasn't taken any drugs or alcohol from a drug test.
Speaker A
All right. And then his mates started rocking up. And the situation just escalated. They saw the cameras, they saw the crowds.
Speaker A
Hey, is this your mate? I'm best mates with him, bro. Yeah, all right. Just tell us Please tell us that.
Speaker A
We just need to know how much he had. Not even a whole bottle. Not a whole bottle.
Speaker A
Yeah, but it looks like it looks more than alcohol. It's more than alcohol. It's more than alcohol, mate.
Speaker A
They kept trying to get really close to him. Can I please go up to him?
Speaker A
Mate, he's not responding to us, he's not going to respond to you. They were young, full of grog, and I think yeah, the emotions just got the better of them.
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Lifeguard's immediate concern is that he could choke on his own vomit. Yeah, how can we get him out of here?
Speaker A
He's had half a bottle of vodka, he's taken an MDMA, and he's in between a parking meter and a wall. So, we knew we had to move him out of that position just in case he did vomit.
Speaker A
We needed to make sure that he was on his side and had the best chance to not, you know, put that back down into his lungs.
Speaker A
The ambos are just coming down and they're right now. Half a bottle of vodka.
Speaker A
Vodka? Yep, and he's told us he's had MDMA. Okay, fantastic. Did he give you MDMA?
Speaker A
Gentleman came over to us, saw him jump off the wall. Jump? Feet first. I assume. There's no injury to his head or anything, so I don't As a precaution, paramedics use a spinal collar and board.
Speaker A
The whole time I was just I was really hoping that the kid would end up getting them fluids up out of him.
Speaker A
But if he vomits while he's back, it's going to go down into his lungs.
Speaker A
Then at the most precarious moment, the worst thing happens. The teenager's airway is now the priority. The spinal collar must be removed.
Speaker A
As disgusting as it is when someone vomits, in this situation, it was really good, you know, you knew this kid was getting some of that liquid out of him.
Speaker A
His airway is now safe. At hospital, the teenager will be treated for an overdose and assessed for other injuries.
Speaker A
Taking drugs can turn people into another person. Friend wanted us off. Probably thinks he can fly.
Speaker A
And falls off a wall. If we weren't there, he could have choked on his own vomit. He would have died.
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