It always happens and they don’t publish it. Not as crazy as that Syd incident but I’m sure knife fights are common. I mean that genre was nicknamed knifepoint
Usually these incidents are between teenagers that know each other, or at least were in a verbal altercation before it became physical. That's not really national news worthy. The Bondi incident was unique because he attacked random and unsuspecting strangers.
Not along ago 2 people were randomly stabbed in a store footscray not long after the 12 year old kid stabbed her mother.
We are way better than Sydney for knife crime as well.
Just standard out in the west, there was an incident last week at Werribee Plaza as well, I don’t know if there was any injuries but a 16yo had a large knife, maybe a machete. Werribee is known for people having machetes.
[There is not a single property across Australia – or even a room in a shared house – that's affordable for someone on youth allowance, according to a new report from support organisation Anglicare Australia.](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/anglicare-australia-rental-affordability-report/103754274)
My place in North Queensland is affordable for someone on Youth Allowance, whoever conducted this, clearly didn't do a good job oh and my rent includes internet and electricity as well as being fully furnished when I moved in. I'd go as far as to say that there are heaps of places for people on Youth Allowance, and all the rooms I've seen for rent lately are $120 a week to $250 a week, if Youth Allowance can't afford that than they need to look into putting up Youth Allowance
Poverty *or the threat of poverty* is why people hurt each other. People go crazy trying to maintain whatever chance at stability they have. Most people's careers were built out of one opportunity they're leveraging. There's a harsh boundary to what opportunities friends or family are able to give you access to. We're all dealing with either the smell of bus stops or with morning and afternoon traffic in order to keep the oppurtunities that give us access to housing and a bed to sleep in.
What's greed? Being able to own a TV?
I'm on welfare, and they've made it tough to also go without the internet or an internet ready phone. Someone without a job is unlikely to get access to a phone that doesn't require at least a shift of work to keep paying to keep.
3G's about to get shut off so anyone who hasn't been able to buy a new phone in the past decade is now forced to allot >$80 for a new prepaid (because if you're without a job and later in life it's dimishing oppurtunites to get a job, then you'd better have good credit to keep a contract).
Is it greedy that we're forcing people to make these choices?
I'm not kidding here, is it greedy to own a car? Greedy to *want* to own a car?
Labour force jobs, like the police, require a driver's licence and a car so that people can make shifts.
These are pressures we're all sharing, and yes it's the pressure that causes domestic violence. It causes people to go blind with anxiety. Insanity is what's happening, but it's because of social stress, because of *poverty*. The steep curve everyone faces no matter how many islands they own.
Calling it greed is focusing away from what it is - fascism. We don't fund things because we want the poor people to kill each other.
We don't have a UBI, and we don't tax the churches, because people using this country as an asset want people to work or die. Want to control "unemployment" as a lever, which has real world results like people go nuts and stab at usually more vulnerable people. See: Australian film classic Bad Boy Bubby and it's functioning statement about power dynamics.
See also: Malcolm Fraser petitioning the Queen to fire the Governer-General to fire our Prime Minster to kill Free University.
This has been a we need UBI and Free Univesity in Australia argument. UBI is what poor people need that will relieve the pressures that cause the member of the family with the most control to not go nuts and kill the family. We need to use our GDP to pay people to be alive, and inform people instead of hate the poor into killing each other for sport while exploiting them for labour.
Think back to the needles in strawberries incidents - after events that have a large media impact, it's not uncommon to wind up with copycat events. Media sources will also be more inclined to report on these events (which would otherwise have been swept under the rug) because it'll gain them consumer interaction.
Also - reading that 'deep dive' I wouldnt put much value in it.
There are PLENTY of news papers that aret digitised here. I often find myself unable to find accounts of events I went too, places I'd been etc etc because the papers aren't digital yet.
His second part was ringing waterslides - given that this is something that happened 30+ odd years ago, I'd be surprised if any of the same employees worked at any of them, or even if many of the slides rung would have existed at the time - and the ones that were around then are long gone.
Not much of a trail to start at.
>because the papers aren't digital yet.
Yes they are, all major newspaper companies (that I know) have all gone digital (with the option to still buy a paper instead)
Yep. Thats a solid argument... Cos vice are totally reputable and unbiased and have never been funded by Rupert Murdoch or Disney, or caught out lying to support their own agendas or anything like that. 🙄
Everyone in society is worse off now because of the various ongoing social and economic crises but the extreme rise in rent and living costs is pushing people over the edge.
We've never provided sufficient social services for at-risk individuals and now there's more of them out and about.
Australia slowly becomes more like America as we close down social security and social housing.
i think it has always been like this but it was not reported in the news. i remember from even 10 years ago that highpoint has been jokingly nicknamed “knifepoint” and i guess there was a reason for this nickname.
Wow from 10 years ago? Try 25 years ago.
It is still a stupid name and unwarranted. Sure heaps of dangerous losers hung out there, but people weren't being indiscriminately stabbed every week.
Help me out here.
I hated English in high school. My worst subject by far. I always thought a double negative was only inappropriate when showing negative concord - like “I ain’t got no money”, which is trying to say “I have no money”.
However, a double negative is perfectly fine as a grammatical device when it’s being used to affirm the positive as it was in my own sentence. Both negatives cancel each other out.
As an aside, the only other language I know (Greek) actually *does* have negative concord. To say «δεν θέλω τίποτα» is perfectly correct, and doesn’t sound ghetto at all. It literally means “Don’t want nothing”.
I used to work at the cinemas there a couple years back. I wasn’t on this day and im not sure if this is the same event, but a few years ago there was a man who was running away from another man with a knife. They were scuffling outside the Grill’d at the tables and chairs across the cinemas then made their way into the kitchen where one grabbed a knife. The other guy ran across to the cinemas into the BOH area with staff telling them to help him lol. Knife guy followed pushing cinema staff away. Don’t remember if they just kept running or if police came or what but I know no one was stabbed and no injuries occurred, pretty wild
Watch government and council video livestreams and follow the police's bulletins and the news media has better context. It becomes just what that network wants to talk about that day.
I always ask why *that* stabbing? Why *that* kidnapping or missing person? Why *that* car crash?
The last one I can answer, there's only one Sky Watch Traffic 'copter.
Lol that got me too. It's like when news organisations get a little carried away with "allegedly". Person A may be alleged to have killed Person B, but it's not alleged that Person B has died. I've seen it a few times where someone was 'allegedly killed' or 'allegedly been injured', or things along those lines.
Well considering it was a fight and multiple different things can cause different injuries with varying amounts of blood, the "suspected" stab wound may have been caused by something else and they won't know until they investigate, I swear some people need to stop and think before hitting enter
yes
theres one in docklands as well
pretty good, just come in early when they open as you do not want to wait for a table. Long queues and sometimes people finish the meat and it takes a while for them to restock it
Same as always, just that elections are nearing.
Shootings, stabbings, car jackings, home invasions, they happen multiple times a day and we don't hear about it in the news.
I took a girlfriend to the knifepoint shopping centre one time. As we were waiting in line for tickets to a movie, 4 guys cut the line. I told them to get to the back.
They looked at me pissed off, and one of them flashed a concealed knife at me.
I dropped it of course. Not getting stabbed over a Pixar movie.
All these kids bein influenced buy uk drill rap and stabbing bringing it to out community’s is disgusting , the parents have no control over there own kids, and these kids have no guidance whatsoever , and maybe if they didn’t just release them after 6 hours .
I can tell you now there is very little outside influence, it's mostly Aussie Drill. American rap is probably the only outside influence. UK drill doesn't have much influence over here and at least one drill artist in the UK is banned from mentioning certain words in their lyrics (there are 3 groups that I found). 1011, Skengdo and AM are all required to get police permission to make music in the UK
Yeah you must folllow much that happened to groups over here they were actively making music and got essentially shut down by the police were not allowed to perform and everytime they dropped music it was a problem, Onefour Australian group were all over the news for there “gang wars” and they all act like they wanna use knives and machetes witch is what they started in the UK
OneFour was the only group to be banned and unbanned, Aussie Drill is alive and well research is important, Onefour is not the only Aussie drill group in Australia 🤣
Ok mummabear3292 💀 you sound like an advocate for these groups. Do you enjoy these New Zealandars acting like gangs in Australia? What’s your point ? Regardless of what your pushing they actively act like these uk gangs with machetes and knives am I wrong? ……… don’t be so naive
[List of active Aussie Drill rappers ](https://volt.fm/genre/3357/aussie-drill)
Explain to me how OneFour made it on the list of active Aussie drill rappers if what you say is true?
They're*
I see you failed to provide an answer for my question
🤣🤣🤣 they were banned but found an article saying they are now censored but allowed to perform, also that list was fucking proof that Aussie drill isn't a problem idiot
It's always been like that though. Just because something develops a reputation, it doesn't mean you're going to ever be involved. I spent a lot of time there way back when, and I remain stab-less to this day.
Ig that's true. I live near Frankston which also has a bad rep but never had anything bad happen to me while I'm there, same with Hastings. Not to say it doesn't but 🤷♀️
Thanks for that information, the time frame wasn’t mentioned and I wasn’t there at the time. Trust you were able to help them with medical assistance when the accident happened.
I remember back in the late 90's early 00's i was regularly at highpoint for the cinema and i tell you, everytime i was there there were cops dragging someone out or a stabbing or an OD... seemed like every week!
glad to see things dont change
Let's dramatise all the stabbings all of a sudden! Gotta keep the public focused on bs while we scam em some more!
I understand the incident in Sydney making news, but why this one?
It was teens punching on, and one got stabbed!
Knee jerk, sensationalism by the media again.
What ever happened to ppl having a good old punch on? When did we stop fighting like Aussies? Pulling knives at the drop of a hat, throwing coward punches from behind and ganging up in a group to attack one person. These things would have been looked down upon back in the day as being weak, there was no pride or respect in having an unfair fight.
It's not a "coward punch". That's a term invented by the media so it's not too coarse and brutal for sensitive minds.
It is, and always will be, a king hit. The lowest way of fighting, a dog's act, and one that earned you a reputation you could never live down. There is nothing worse than being a king hit merchant.
Needs metal detectors on the entrances like in shopping plazas in Malaysia, and armed security.
No joke security high end stores likes jewellery have armed guards with shotguns outside.
> Needs metal detectors on the entrances
Yeah, because people never carry any metal items with them when going in or out of shopping centres 🙄
What we need is not more bullshit security theatre, we need fewer wanktards hyping up the minuscule amounts of violent crime and making out it is a serious threat.
I’m against security theatre too, but what’s the alternative in many of these ‘shithole’ areas and problematic shopping centres.
Ban youth under 18? All I’m saying is a few guards with a wand to check the likely suspects.
Success is them loitering causing trouble somewhere else.
Do nothing and we will follow the US with many of these outlets closing due to theft and the community feeling unsafe.
Prevent robberies and attacks and stopping shopping centres being seen as soft targets by terrorists.
None of this flash mob stuff robbing retail stores happen and altercations get broken up immediately.
The polar opposite of what I witnessed at fountain gate last year and was amazed that even the police just watched, the workers of the store I was in shrugged and said it happend all the time.
I blame John Howard! He's the cunt that created the environment that has made housing so insanely expensive. If you were born before 1995 it's far more likely that one of your parents was able to be a full-time parent or maybe just work part time. These days if only one of your parents works full-time then odds are you're pretty well off, for everyone else once you sprinkle in the deregulation and privatisation of child care nationwide unless you qualify for a subsidy or tax refund then good fucking luck and here kid meet your new parents, iPad and Playstation!
Easy way to stop this “cool to carry a knife culture” … minor tweak to the law to make it an automatic “attempted murder” charge if caught “in possession of a potential weapon without cause”. Knives, razors, screwdrivers and on and on. Anything that can be used to injure or kill, and person carrying has no plausible reason to be carrying. Yes yes, I know, chefs might reasonably carry their knives, electricians/engineers/carpenters their screwdrivers etc etc. Let Plod make the judgement call, let the Courts sort the fine detail. Will sort out the “wanna be’s” overnight (or at least after a few months in custody awaiting trial).
With respect, this is incredibly stupid. Our justice system works on the idea that 10 guilty people should walk free before 1 innocent person be punished. We have the presumption of innocence for the accused and the burden of proof for the prosecution.
It sounds good on a soapbox but you need to remember that carrying a Leatherman on your belt after clocking off work is technically a crime. There is officer discretion but it's just that, discretion. If they felt like it they could, in this scenario you've painted, use their discretion to effect an arrest and now there is an entirely real possibility of people being sent to prison over utter bollocks.
The issues related to people carrying weapons are drugs and further intention of committing a crime. Our justice system lets offenders, especially young offenders walk free when really, those people should be absolutely copping it in the courts and be behind bars or in a remand centre if no charges are yet laid. They need to be made an example of. Tackling the social traps that send young people on a trajectory of crime and drugs is also a huge part of it.
You won't make a dent in this problem by spending millions of tax dollars on shaking up everyday people who carry everyday items that *could* possibly be used as a weapon if they felt like it.
Whatever you say your Honour. But if Plod makes the call that the Leatherman on the belt was being carried with criminal intent and initiates an arrest AND the Police prosecutor initiates a charge AND the Courts find the charge proved … there’s a pretty good chance the Leatherman was being carried with criminal intent (and seven people don’t die?). If the Court doesn’t find the charge proved, Plod and Prosecutor get a spanking and do better next time (and seven people also don’t die?). All for the price of a small handheld (non lethal) metal detector to go with all the other gadgets Plod clips on his/her belt.
Guns should be introduced like the US, not controlled just the fact that everyone should have a gun. Also implants like Cyberpunk. If yall don’t agree y’all’s can go live in Dubai.
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Lived in Brunswick and Ascot Vale for 21 years, before moving to Gippsland. Not once has anyone ever referred to it as Knifepoint 🙄, sure hoodlums and dickheads have always hung around shopping centres. It’s pretty easy to steer clear. Does that make it worthy of this cringy nickname which would suggest your in danger by going there? I personally don’t think so.
Live in Footscray.
It's people from other suburbs that refer to it as that. Shopping centres around the outer North, West and South East are worse.
Highpoint has had hidden cctv for over 20 years now. Most crims know that.
Was there a handout of knives recently that I missed? WTF is going on?
Highpoint has been known as Knifepoint for a reason for a very very long time. It's usually people known to each other beefing.
Sometimes the beef people are from Stab Albans
I call it stablands but yea
Let me guess, wearing either all black or grey trousers with a black hoodie. Seems to be the attire for every wannabe roaming around Highpoint.
You forgot red trainers.
Never had a knife pulled on me when I worked at Highpoint, but did at Northland.
Bad hashtag: "the mall" Heidelberg heighhhhhhts. Good doner though
Never heard the term, knifepoint.
You mustn't work in a trade. It's KNOWN as knife point. Bondi just trying to stay relevant.
I’ve heard that term within a fortnight of moving here 20 years ago.
Congratulations on staying alive!
Is fitter and turner trade? Or the you mean the knife trade? Reddits the only place people give stupids nick names for tragic reasons.
I knew it as Knifepoint when I worked there occasionally in 2003...
The whole of Australia gives nicknames based on stereotypes
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_English_colloquial_proper_nouns Enjoy
Apparently people on reddit dislike that you've never heard it called knifepoint🤣
Nah they downvoted him for trolling and lying, I don't even live in Melbourne and I have heard the term Knifepoint for Highpoint
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/12h0li2/this_toyota_satnav_has_an_entry_for_knifepoint/
It always happens and they don’t publish it. Not as crazy as that Syd incident but I’m sure knife fights are common. I mean that genre was nicknamed knifepoint
Usually these incidents are between teenagers that know each other, or at least were in a verbal altercation before it became physical. That's not really national news worthy. The Bondi incident was unique because he attacked random and unsuspecting strangers.
Not along ago 2 people were randomly stabbed in a store footscray not long after the 12 year old kid stabbed her mother. We are way better than Sydney for knife crime as well.
Wokeism has gone too far
Just standard out in the west, there was an incident last week at Werribee Plaza as well, I don’t know if there was any injuries but a 16yo had a large knife, maybe a machete. Werribee is known for people having machetes.
There was a Melton one too last Tuesday
About a month or two ago I reckon there was one at wood grove shops in melton too
There’s one at Melton ever other Tuesday it seems
slaughter at sunday, murder on monday
Highpoint is north-west
this happens every day. we are a stabby lot.
Among the world's most stabby cities?
Can't even blame it on poverty in Australia, a country alongside NZ known for providing social security up the arse
[There is not a single property across Australia – or even a room in a shared house – that's affordable for someone on youth allowance, according to a new report from support organisation Anglicare Australia.](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/anglicare-australia-rental-affordability-report/103754274)
My place in North Queensland is affordable for someone on Youth Allowance, whoever conducted this, clearly didn't do a good job oh and my rent includes internet and electricity as well as being fully furnished when I moved in. I'd go as far as to say that there are heaps of places for people on Youth Allowance, and all the rooms I've seen for rent lately are $120 a week to $250 a week, if Youth Allowance can't afford that than they need to look into putting up Youth Allowance
Well it is because of poverty. No one is stabbing anyone because they have better options.
Poverty is not the reason. Greed, power, insanity they are more likely the reasons.
Poverty *or the threat of poverty* is why people hurt each other. People go crazy trying to maintain whatever chance at stability they have. Most people's careers were built out of one opportunity they're leveraging. There's a harsh boundary to what opportunities friends or family are able to give you access to. We're all dealing with either the smell of bus stops or with morning and afternoon traffic in order to keep the oppurtunities that give us access to housing and a bed to sleep in. What's greed? Being able to own a TV? I'm on welfare, and they've made it tough to also go without the internet or an internet ready phone. Someone without a job is unlikely to get access to a phone that doesn't require at least a shift of work to keep paying to keep. 3G's about to get shut off so anyone who hasn't been able to buy a new phone in the past decade is now forced to allot >$80 for a new prepaid (because if you're without a job and later in life it's dimishing oppurtunites to get a job, then you'd better have good credit to keep a contract). Is it greedy that we're forcing people to make these choices? I'm not kidding here, is it greedy to own a car? Greedy to *want* to own a car? Labour force jobs, like the police, require a driver's licence and a car so that people can make shifts. These are pressures we're all sharing, and yes it's the pressure that causes domestic violence. It causes people to go blind with anxiety. Insanity is what's happening, but it's because of social stress, because of *poverty*. The steep curve everyone faces no matter how many islands they own. Calling it greed is focusing away from what it is - fascism. We don't fund things because we want the poor people to kill each other. We don't have a UBI, and we don't tax the churches, because people using this country as an asset want people to work or die. Want to control "unemployment" as a lever, which has real world results like people go nuts and stab at usually more vulnerable people. See: Australian film classic Bad Boy Bubby and it's functioning statement about power dynamics. See also: Malcolm Fraser petitioning the Queen to fire the Governer-General to fire our Prime Minster to kill Free University. This has been a we need UBI and Free Univesity in Australia argument. UBI is what poor people need that will relieve the pressures that cause the member of the family with the most control to not go nuts and kill the family. We need to use our GDP to pay people to be alive, and inform people instead of hate the poor into killing each other for sport while exploiting them for labour.
Think back to the needles in strawberries incidents - after events that have a large media impact, it's not uncommon to wind up with copycat events. Media sources will also be more inclined to report on these events (which would otherwise have been swept under the rug) because it'll gain them consumer interaction.
Not to mention the razorblades on the water slides at theme parks way back.
That didnt happen
I knew a kid with a heap of scaring from it back when I was younger. Never been on a slide since I seen it.
Yeah it actually did in the mid 80s! Grundy confirmed it as well in 2013. Google it.
Why don't you? The first result is a vice deep dive explaining it is an urban myth. Even mentions the Grundy employee "confirming" it.
Just goes to show you can't always believe what you read. Even tho I was 20 & there was no social media then. I must've believed newspapers!🤣
"Confirming it did happen"
Also - reading that 'deep dive' I wouldnt put much value in it. There are PLENTY of news papers that aret digitised here. I often find myself unable to find accounts of events I went too, places I'd been etc etc because the papers aren't digital yet. His second part was ringing waterslides - given that this is something that happened 30+ odd years ago, I'd be surprised if any of the same employees worked at any of them, or even if many of the slides rung would have existed at the time - and the ones that were around then are long gone. Not much of a trail to start at.
>because the papers aren't digital yet. Yes they are, all major newspaper companies (that I know) have all gone digital (with the option to still buy a paper instead)
Exactly. Major. PLENTY of town papers that haven't been yet.
Surfers Paradise is a major city which is where Grundy's was right in the heart of the city
Yep. Thats a solid argument... Cos vice are totally reputable and unbiased and have never been funded by Rupert Murdoch or Disney, or caught out lying to support their own agendas or anything like that. 🙄
Everyone in society is worse off now because of the various ongoing social and economic crises but the extreme rise in rent and living costs is pushing people over the edge. We've never provided sufficient social services for at-risk individuals and now there's more of them out and about. Australia slowly becomes more like America as we close down social security and social housing.
There were knife attacks going on before the Syd attack you do realise? Seems like you form your opinion on whatever the media currently highlights.
Here in Hoppers Crossing you can go to a shop and get a machete for $7 regardless of your age.
Choppers Crossing
Bargain!
It's not like they're hard to find or buy.
Well.. We all know that money can't buy knives.
Been around any high schools in the past 10 years? They are everywhere
i think it has always been like this but it was not reported in the news. i remember from even 10 years ago that highpoint has been jokingly nicknamed “knifepoint” and i guess there was a reason for this nickname.
Wow from 10 years ago? Try 25 years ago. It is still a stupid name and unwarranted. Sure heaps of dangerous losers hung out there, but people weren't being indiscriminately stabbed every week.
Are people just feeling like they can win in a knife fight and not running away anymore or something?
yeah you were on Reddit when it happened
Highpoint went into lockdown years ago because of someone armed with a long knife too. Ah, some things never change.
They don’t call it Knifepoint for no reason.
Double negative, that's a stabbing
Help me out here. I hated English in high school. My worst subject by far. I always thought a double negative was only inappropriate when showing negative concord - like “I ain’t got no money”, which is trying to say “I have no money”. However, a double negative is perfectly fine as a grammatical device when it’s being used to affirm the positive as it was in my own sentence. Both negatives cancel each other out. As an aside, the only other language I know (Greek) actually *does* have negative concord. To say «δεν θέλω τίποτα» is perfectly correct, and doesn’t sound ghetto at all. It literally means “Don’t want nothing”.
Perhaps you are right, take this bandage and coupon for 50% off at pancake parlour by way of apology
Lovely!
It's just unnecessary complexity, that's all. Simpler to say "They call it knifepoint for a reason". Some examples are more egregious than others.
Probably he/ she is a lawyer, legal term use a lots double negative.
Yes you are correct. It's just often people use it incorrectly.
Wasn't it a hatchet? Or am I thinking of something else
I could be wrong too. It's just a case of "same shit, different day".
Por qué no los dos?
There was a hatchet incident at Fountain Gate a couple years ago I think?
You mean Knife Gate amirite???
I used to work at the cinemas there a couple years back. I wasn’t on this day and im not sure if this is the same event, but a few years ago there was a man who was running away from another man with a knife. They were scuffling outside the Grill’d at the tables and chairs across the cinemas then made their way into the kitchen where one grabbed a knife. The other guy ran across to the cinemas into the BOH area with staff telling them to help him lol. Knife guy followed pushing cinema staff away. Don’t remember if they just kept running or if police came or what but I know no one was stabbed and no injuries occurred, pretty wild
The only good news I see here is that The "Hidden surcharges and service fees" Bavarian is gone.
Oh look, it’s the media reporting every stabbing because it’s good for SEO right now.
💯 and half of Reddit lapping it up
And reddit back to being all about Crime....didn't know an election was coming up?
Would be nice if there was some outcome like actually cracking down on these sort of people in Australia.
Watch government and council video livestreams and follow the police's bulletins and the news media has better context. It becomes just what that network wants to talk about that day. I always ask why *that* stabbing? Why *that* kidnapping or missing person? Why *that* car crash? The last one I can answer, there's only one Sky Watch Traffic 'copter.
*Suspected* stab wounds? Like, maybe the guy just spontaneously developed holes in his body? Perhaps its a new Long Covid symptom?
Lol that got me too. It's like when news organisations get a little carried away with "allegedly". Person A may be alleged to have killed Person B, but it's not alleged that Person B has died. I've seen it a few times where someone was 'allegedly killed' or 'allegedly been injured', or things along those lines.
Allegedly dead…
Well considering it was a fight and multiple different things can cause different injuries with varying amounts of blood, the "suspected" stab wound may have been caused by something else and they won't know until they investigate, I swear some people need to stop and think before hitting enter
Remember it now appears as Knifepoint on some Sat Navs.. https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/s/1e0VfW8ax8
Good ol' Lowpoint
Knifepoint*
Anyone tried that bbq joint? It smells good
You can bring your own knife
If you bring a gun they give you everything for free
Yeah it's really good. All you can eat for that price you can't go wrong tbh.
This comment is extremely underrated
yes theres one in docklands as well pretty good, just come in early when they open as you do not want to wait for a table. Long queues and sometimes people finish the meat and it takes a while for them to restock it
Hope it’s not a Haitian joint
My brother and his missus almost got car jacked in ascot Vale this morning from a guy with a hunting knife 😐
https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1ca93co/facebook_marketplace_disaster_prompts_ascot_vale/
Damn ... guy that tried to get them had face tats and red and yellow hair ..Ronald McDonald's cousin
wtf is happening in australia
Same as always, just that elections are nearing. Shootings, stabbings, car jackings, home invasions, they happen multiple times a day and we don't hear about it in the news.
I heard knifepoint within weeks of moving to ‘straya
Do they use gas or charcoal?
I took a girlfriend to the knifepoint shopping centre one time. As we were waiting in line for tickets to a movie, 4 guys cut the line. I told them to get to the back. They looked at me pissed off, and one of them flashed a concealed knife at me. I dropped it of course. Not getting stabbed over a Pixar movie.
Good ol’ Knifepoint. Some things never change
Well it is called Knifepoint...
Nothing new happening at hp damn haven’t been there in a while, now you know why
All these kids bein influenced buy uk drill rap and stabbing bringing it to out community’s is disgusting , the parents have no control over there own kids, and these kids have no guidance whatsoever , and maybe if they didn’t just release them after 6 hours .
I can tell you now there is very little outside influence, it's mostly Aussie Drill. American rap is probably the only outside influence. UK drill doesn't have much influence over here and at least one drill artist in the UK is banned from mentioning certain words in their lyrics (there are 3 groups that I found). 1011, Skengdo and AM are all required to get police permission to make music in the UK
Yeah you must folllow much that happened to groups over here they were actively making music and got essentially shut down by the police were not allowed to perform and everytime they dropped music it was a problem, Onefour Australian group were all over the news for there “gang wars” and they all act like they wanna use knives and machetes witch is what they started in the UK
OneFour was the only group to be banned and unbanned, Aussie Drill is alive and well research is important, Onefour is not the only Aussie drill group in Australia 🤣
Ok mummabear3292 💀 you sound like an advocate for these groups. Do you enjoy these New Zealandars acting like gangs in Australia? What’s your point ? Regardless of what your pushing they actively act like these uk gangs with machetes and knives am I wrong? ……… don’t be so naive
[List of active Aussie Drill rappers ](https://volt.fm/genre/3357/aussie-drill) Explain to me how OneFour made it on the list of active Aussie drill rappers if what you say is true?
💀 you said your self there banned ? Stop dickriding them LOL
They're* I see you failed to provide an answer for my question 🤣🤣🤣 they were banned but found an article saying they are now censored but allowed to perform, also that list was fucking proof that Aussie drill isn't a problem idiot
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How long before we get a knife buy back scheme?
They’ve called it KnifePoint for years, glad to see that hasn’t changed in 20 years.
I wouldn't be glad to see that
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go in for some KBBQ , BYO knives lolz
That's actually terrifying. My mates and I were there less than a week ago. Bro wtf :(
I didn't realise that high point was so dangerous
They don’t call it Knifepoint for nothing
I didn't know they called it knifepoint :/ my mates and I were just there like a week or so ago. That's terrifying
It's always been like that though. Just because something develops a reputation, it doesn't mean you're going to ever be involved. I spent a lot of time there way back when, and I remain stab-less to this day.
Ig that's true. I live near Frankston which also has a bad rep but never had anything bad happen to me while I'm there, same with Hastings. Not to say it doesn't but 🤷♀️
Never mind. Some other day perhaps?
Actually, that was a lie. I have been stabbed - when I dropped a kitchen knife into my foot.
There you go then. Tell the world you’re “stab-less” (tempting fate) and immediately stab your own foot … a budding Nostradamus (not).
They didn't just do it as they were typing
Thanks for that information, the time frame wasn’t mentioned and I wasn’t there at the time. Trust you were able to help them with medical assistance when the accident happened.
Wow we were shopping there om Sunday and ate at this place in the evening. Had no idea
20 years and still alive out that way is incredible
I remember back in the late 90's early 00's i was regularly at highpoint for the cinema and i tell you, everytime i was there there were cops dragging someone out or a stabbing or an OD... seemed like every week! glad to see things dont change
good old Knifepoint staying true to the old ways
Knifepoint living up to its name
Classic highpoint.
Thus why Highpoint has always been called Knifepoint
I don't think anyone has said this yet but it is called "knibepoint". ...FUCK!
Well it's called Knifepoint for a reason
Unironically used to call it “Knifepoint” workin there in the 00s.
Let's dramatise all the stabbings all of a sudden! Gotta keep the public focused on bs while we scam em some more! I understand the incident in Sydney making news, but why this one? It was teens punching on, and one got stabbed! Knee jerk, sensationalism by the media again.
What ever happened to ppl having a good old punch on? When did we stop fighting like Aussies? Pulling knives at the drop of a hat, throwing coward punches from behind and ganging up in a group to attack one person. These things would have been looked down upon back in the day as being weak, there was no pride or respect in having an unfair fight.
It's not a "coward punch". That's a term invented by the media so it's not too coarse and brutal for sensitive minds. It is, and always will be, a king hit. The lowest way of fighting, a dog's act, and one that earned you a reputation you could never live down. There is nothing worse than being a king hit merchant.
Needs metal detectors on the entrances like in shopping plazas in Malaysia, and armed security. No joke security high end stores likes jewellery have armed guards with shotguns outside.
Those old uncles can hardly lift them. If they ever let off a shot they would slide along floor out the door.
I went to several malls in Malaysia a couple of weeks ago and none of them had metal detectors so not sure what you’re on about.
> Needs metal detectors on the entrances Yeah, because people never carry any metal items with them when going in or out of shopping centres 🙄 What we need is not more bullshit security theatre, we need fewer wanktards hyping up the minuscule amounts of violent crime and making out it is a serious threat.
I’m against security theatre too, but what’s the alternative in many of these ‘shithole’ areas and problematic shopping centres. Ban youth under 18? All I’m saying is a few guards with a wand to check the likely suspects. Success is them loitering causing trouble somewhere else. Do nothing and we will follow the US with many of these outlets closing due to theft and the community feeling unsafe.
The jewellery stores have armed guards to prevent knife attacks? How do they get the knives past the security with metal detectors?
Prevent robberies and attacks and stopping shopping centres being seen as soft targets by terrorists. None of this flash mob stuff robbing retail stores happen and altercations get broken up immediately. The polar opposite of what I witnessed at fountain gate last year and was amazed that even the police just watched, the workers of the store I was in shrugged and said it happend all the time.
Obviously its mostly to prevent robbery but also works as a secondary measure in case of violence, use your brain.
Here we go again ...
They don't call it "Knifepoint" for nothing.
I blame John Howard! He's the cunt that created the environment that has made housing so insanely expensive. If you were born before 1995 it's far more likely that one of your parents was able to be a full-time parent or maybe just work part time. These days if only one of your parents works full-time then odds are you're pretty well off, for everyone else once you sprinkle in the deregulation and privatisation of child care nationwide unless you qualify for a subsidy or tax refund then good fucking luck and here kid meet your new parents, iPad and Playstation!
Yeah, blame little Johnny for all the knife crime. He took everyone’s guns. /s
Police is plan shotgun on man attack knife?
Bad bot. Speak English.
OK citizens. We’re banning knives. You must now tear your food apart with your fingers. It’s for the greater good.
Some of the comments on this thread are very cutting...
Easy way to stop this “cool to carry a knife culture” … minor tweak to the law to make it an automatic “attempted murder” charge if caught “in possession of a potential weapon without cause”. Knives, razors, screwdrivers and on and on. Anything that can be used to injure or kill, and person carrying has no plausible reason to be carrying. Yes yes, I know, chefs might reasonably carry their knives, electricians/engineers/carpenters their screwdrivers etc etc. Let Plod make the judgement call, let the Courts sort the fine detail. Will sort out the “wanna be’s” overnight (or at least after a few months in custody awaiting trial).
With respect, this is incredibly stupid. Our justice system works on the idea that 10 guilty people should walk free before 1 innocent person be punished. We have the presumption of innocence for the accused and the burden of proof for the prosecution. It sounds good on a soapbox but you need to remember that carrying a Leatherman on your belt after clocking off work is technically a crime. There is officer discretion but it's just that, discretion. If they felt like it they could, in this scenario you've painted, use their discretion to effect an arrest and now there is an entirely real possibility of people being sent to prison over utter bollocks. The issues related to people carrying weapons are drugs and further intention of committing a crime. Our justice system lets offenders, especially young offenders walk free when really, those people should be absolutely copping it in the courts and be behind bars or in a remand centre if no charges are yet laid. They need to be made an example of. Tackling the social traps that send young people on a trajectory of crime and drugs is also a huge part of it. You won't make a dent in this problem by spending millions of tax dollars on shaking up everyday people who carry everyday items that *could* possibly be used as a weapon if they felt like it.
Whatever you say your Honour. But if Plod makes the call that the Leatherman on the belt was being carried with criminal intent and initiates an arrest AND the Police prosecutor initiates a charge AND the Courts find the charge proved … there’s a pretty good chance the Leatherman was being carried with criminal intent (and seven people don’t die?). If the Court doesn’t find the charge proved, Plod and Prosecutor get a spanking and do better next time (and seven people also don’t die?). All for the price of a small handheld (non lethal) metal detector to go with all the other gadgets Plod clips on his/her belt.
Guns should be introduced like the US, not controlled just the fact that everyone should have a gun. Also implants like Cyberpunk. If yall don’t agree y’all’s can go live in Dubai.
It's better for everyone else if you move to the US
Move to dubai
Y'all....Lord have mercy. Here's a tip: why don't you stop talking like an imbecile and then folks might take you seriously?
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Typical KnifePoint shenanigans.
Lived in Brunswick and Ascot Vale for 21 years, before moving to Gippsland. Not once has anyone ever referred to it as Knifepoint 🙄, sure hoodlums and dickheads have always hung around shopping centres. It’s pretty easy to steer clear. Does that make it worthy of this cringy nickname which would suggest your in danger by going there? I personally don’t think so.
Live in Footscray. It's people from other suburbs that refer to it as that. Shopping centres around the outer North, West and South East are worse. Highpoint has had hidden cctv for over 20 years now. Most crims know that.
Hidden cctv isn’t going to stop a crime, it might help later in the investigation but it isn’t doing anything to prevent the crime