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Abused Busker
Hi all, I'm new to the posting scene but I've been reading the horror stories of all of you (Particularly enjoying Kara's Correctional Officer stories. Crazy stuff 
) and thank the flying spaghetti monster that I no longer work with the public 
Anyway, although I have just about nothing to contribute personally, I have signed up just to post this one story which I read today. Technically not a sucky customer, but I think it deserves recognition. The SC must surely be an unstable asshole in other aspects of life too. I'd like to think not, but there's optimism and then there's foolishness.
I will transpose it to text for the people who may read this after the image hosting site has removed it due to lack of activity.
"A teenage Brisbane busker who was kicked and had his $1500 guitar smashed in an unprovoked attack at a train station has told mX he will keep playing the music he loves.
Lyle Frazer, 17, was playing and singing a blues number in a tunnel at Central station last Thursday evening when a middle-aged man approached him.
"I was down in the tunnel and this guy just came up to me, started yelling and kicked me in the side."
"He was just swearing and yelling and then he just jumped on (my guitar) and smashed it.
"I could not do anything, I was just devastated."
Frazer said there was a large number of witnesses, but the offender escaped security.
"There was people around and a few of them were trying to call the police and were helping me."
Frazer said his prized $1500 Maton acoustic guitar that he had brought with him from his home town of Bundaberg was completely destroyed.
Frazer, of Highgate Hill, said buskers often coped with abuse and ridicule from passing commuters.
"There are people who come through here on mobile phones that will say to you 'I'm on the phone can you be quiet'."
Frazer said he would borrow a guitar and keep playing until he could earn another one.
"I'll just keep playing other people's guitars 'til I can afford another one, 'cause music is my life."
Police eventually caught the offender, charging the 45-year old man with common assault and wilful damage. He failed to appear at court and police said a warrant had been issued."
) and thank the flying spaghetti monster that I no longer work with the public Anyway, although I have just about nothing to contribute personally, I have signed up just to post this one story which I read today. Technically not a sucky customer, but I think it deserves recognition. The SC must surely be an unstable asshole in other aspects of life too. I'd like to think not, but there's optimism and then there's foolishness.
I will transpose it to text for the people who may read this after the image hosting site has removed it due to lack of activity.
"A teenage Brisbane busker who was kicked and had his $1500 guitar smashed in an unprovoked attack at a train station has told mX he will keep playing the music he loves.
Lyle Frazer, 17, was playing and singing a blues number in a tunnel at Central station last Thursday evening when a middle-aged man approached him.
"I was down in the tunnel and this guy just came up to me, started yelling and kicked me in the side."
"He was just swearing and yelling and then he just jumped on (my guitar) and smashed it.
"I could not do anything, I was just devastated."
Frazer said there was a large number of witnesses, but the offender escaped security.
"There was people around and a few of them were trying to call the police and were helping me."
Frazer said his prized $1500 Maton acoustic guitar that he had brought with him from his home town of Bundaberg was completely destroyed.
Frazer, of Highgate Hill, said buskers often coped with abuse and ridicule from passing commuters.
"There are people who come through here on mobile phones that will say to you 'I'm on the phone can you be quiet'."
Frazer said he would borrow a guitar and keep playing until he could earn another one.
"I'll just keep playing other people's guitars 'til I can afford another one, 'cause music is my life."
Police eventually caught the offender, charging the 45-year old man with common assault and wilful damage. He failed to appear at court and police said a warrant had been issued."
That is mind-blowing, someone could be that blatantly horrible. I hope they catch him and throw the book at him.
The way things work these days, he'll probably get a few hours community service and probation and not a lot else.
Granted not all buskers are up to public performance standards, neophyte bagpipers being the worst IMHO, but you're out on the street, people! If you don't like the buskers playing, just keep walking. Jeez!
That that AUGHHH even twatwaffle isn't enough for this, I love those buskers (so that is what the street performers are called, cool) hell I always give a few coins at least to them, they just make things nicer in any city and this , I want to say amoeba but I don't want to offend anything single celled, just decides he is the grand marshal of what belongs on the streets and breaks a guitar
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