Bloody ratbags.

Oh this was too funny. Yesterday in Sydney, where the APEC summit is taking place amidst the tightest security ever seen in this country, a bunch of ratbags from our comedy show The Chaser's War on Everything drove a fake motorcade through two check points before finally stopping metres from the hotel where the US President is staying.

I was laughing so hard when I heard this on the radio news I could barely hear the Police spokesperson when he said, "This is no laughing matter." Oh yes it is Mr Police Spokesperson. It is so piss funny I'm still laughing about it today.

The chaps from Chaser's War have kept the legal department at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation very busy this year and this time they've outdone themselves. Eleven of them have been charged, under specifically enacted APEC security legislation, with entering a restricted area without justification and could face up to six months in prison.

The funny bit to me though isn't the joke they were trying to pull (personally I find their humour just a leetle too undergraduate for my taste and I rarely watch the show) but the fact that it appears all one has to do these days to be considered above suspicion is to be Canadian. You see, the cheeky lads had placed Canadian flags on their rented hummer-like vehicles and despite wearing obviously fake ‘insecurity' passes were happily waved through.

It has been said the stunt ‘embarrassed Sydney police' but let's be fair about this. I've met quite a few Canadians over the years and without fail they were lovely folk, charming and friendly, and not one them was a terrorist. No doubt the police officers involved have had similar universally positive experiences with Canadians and figured the security arrangements don't need to be applied to such obviously nice people.

Embarrassing? Oh yes, very much so. My guess is there's a few officers who didn't have to iron their uniforms this morning and instead were brushing off their resumes.  Just who were the ratbags there yesterday anyway?

From Merriam-Websters online Dictionary:

Main Entry: rat·bag
Pronunciation: 'rat-"bag
Function: noun
chiefly Australian : a stupid, eccentric, or disagreeable person

 This picture of the lads' clearly fake security passes is too priceless to not share.  Apologies to the copywrite holder.