Melbourne Bouncer Eddie Attal Fired after Photo Controversy
This past weekend a Melbourne bouncer Eddie Attal was pictured kicking a man in the streets of downtown Melbourne:
Now Attal is defending himself after he was fired due to the picture controversy:
MELBOURNE’S 2am lockout has started as the sacked bouncer whose brutality shocked Victorians moved to defend himself. “I’m trying to regain my balance,” he said.
Bar 20 crowd controller Eddie Attal said he could not believe he was the same man portrayed in a confronting series of photos in the Herald Sun.
Mr Attal denied the photos show him assaulting a man outside the King St strip joint.
“It looks like I’m kicking him. I’m trying to regain my balance,” he said.
“I was very devastated and very upset. I’m not that person. I’m a family man with three kids.
“It looks bad. It’s a shot that captures the whole thug issue. There’s not much I can say.” [Herald-Sun]
It sure looks like the bouncer is kicking that guy and not just losing his balance. If he was slipping how does he explain this image:
Did Attal slip and hit the guy in the kidneys in this image?:
It is pretty clear Attal is giving this guy a beat down well outside what his job allows him to do. Since this happened downtown hopefully there is some close captioned camera footage of the incident that will further show that Attal assaulted the guy.
However, this is a perfect example of why I do not go to downtown Melbourne at night because the alcohol fueled violence just continues to happen there. It is bad enough there are so many violent drunks walking around now the bouncers are acting just as bad as the drunks.
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[…] The political opposition is demanding more police to be deployed on the streets because the current government’s prior implementation of the alcopops tax and the 2AM bar lockout have done nothing to stop the violence that has been plaguing downtown Melbourne. […]
People these days dont understand, bouncers arent boxing bags or stress releivers for dumb bogan and pommy drunks. Fuke em let him get stomped on and bashed they probably deserved it worthless pieces of shiiyyyeeeettttttt!.
SImpley put some guards are overly heavy handed when there is no need to be, on the other hand photos and videos do not spell out whole story, I been a guard for over a decade and have coped more crap than average copper, why? because our job sometimes requires us to be judgmental and assuming on everything. Anyone gets into your face over anything and is aggressive then our first thoughts are "this is gonna turn out to be a fight" often times over just saying "not tonight buddy" can erupt into violence, most guards want to have fun… Read more »