Australian TV comics escape trial over bin Laden prank
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SYDNEY (AFP) — Australian television comics who breached security at a global summit by posing as part of a Canadian motorcade carrying an Osama bin Laden look-alike Monday had all charges against them dropped.
The team from The Chaser’s War on Everything show came within metres of US President George W. Bush’s hotel in September after their fake three-car convoy was waved through security checkpoints.
They were stopped only after one of the comedians from the show emerged from a car dressed as fugitive alleged terror mastermind bin Laden.
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New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery said the circumstances of the case, which had been set for a two-week hearing in July, were “unusual” and the charges against all 11 had been dropped.
Cowdery said the comics, drivers and crew, who carried fake APEC security passes, had been allowed into the secure zone by police.
“Police permission in fact constitutes special justification for entry,” he said.
“Accordingly, there is no reasonable prospect of conviction and for that reason the prosecutions should not proceed.”
It’s been so long ago that I’ve seen common sense like this that I’ve become a cynic and wonder: isn’t it done just prevent even more egg on their face?
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