Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has announced plans to immediately approve the opening of 300 new bars and nightclubs in Melbourne this week in an effort to combat rising city violence.
The news comes after another horror weekend in which 300 heavily intoxicated and drugged affected people were arrested in one incident late Saturday night.
Riot squad police broke up a violent brawl, believed to be over the last kebab at Crazy Con’s Kebabs and Donuts mobile food van on the corner of Bourke and Russell Street.
90 people were hospitalised and the van was set alight and tipped over, spilling toxic garlic sauce into the streets blinding a further 800 people.
Police have hit out at Doyle’s plan, claiming just 100 new bars would be more than enough, but at least 3,000 more mobile kebab and hotdog vans were needed to reduced the number of fatal bashings and assaults.
With his popularity plummeting over his handling of the situation, Doyle claims the violence is a clear result of a lack of venues in which young people can gather to consume massive amounts of alcohol and addictive mind altering drugs such as ecstacy in safety.
“This decisive move to open 300 more fully licensed venues by the weekend will see an end to the violence on the streets of Melbourne, shifting it back into the clubs where it belongs. Also, I’m proud to announce a donation of $50 million dollars to St. Vincent’s Hospital so they can better treat the huge number of people who will undoubtedly soon become a victim of the random and senseless violence which will occur in all these new clubs. I also call on club owners to do more to cleanup the violent image they have created, and will table a motion at our next council meeting that at least half of the clubs in Melbourne be shutdown immediately so that patrons in clubs can feel safe while drinking and getting high.”
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