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# The First Baseball Bats of Spring Come to Melbourne
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-first-baseball-bats-of-spring-come-to-melbourne/
- Published: 2020-07-30T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-29T09:36:08.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Crime, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

Locked-down Melbournians can still enjoy the city’s famed, vibrant multiculturalism, right in their own homes.

> A gang armed with knives and baseball bats has terrorised seven residents during a frightening home invasion in Melbourne’s inner west.

In a world turned upside-down by COVID-19, Melbournians will surely be grateful for any sign of normalcy. Footy on the telly, trying to find the best heirloom, single-origin coffee…and African gangs.

The pandemic might have put a stop to fishermen angling off Port Phillip Bay’s piers, but nothing stops some of Melbourne’s young arrivals from the Dark Continent from indulging in their favourite leisure pursuit.

**No, not basketball – home invasions.**

> Three occupants were left with cuts and bruises and were taken to hospital for treatment after they were attacked by the four thugs during the break-in.

Interestingly, the home invasion took place just two blocks from Flemington’s locked-down high-rise towers – and within a Macca’s run of the local cop-shop.

> The quartet, believed to be men aged in their late teens to early 20s, broke into the Flemington property about 8pm on July 20.  
>  
> They threatened the seven residents and assaulted three of them, before ransacking the Princes St house and attempting to steal laptops, mobile phones and a large sum of cash.  
>  
> **First Constable Lucy Kerr** said the offenders fled by jumping the back fence where they dropped all the items they had taken from the house except the cash\[…\]  
>  
> First-Const Kerr said police believed it was an isolated incident and wasn’t \[a\] targeted attack.

Amazingly, police and media actually managed to bring themselves to say the unspeakable and **accurately describe the alleged offenders**.

> She said the offenders were picked up by a dark coloured 4WD or SUV in Bignell St. **The quartet have been described as of African appearance.**

No doubt colonialism is to blame.

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