Bizarre 'attack'

[Melburnian1]

News Ltd online sites have a photo of the QF CEO's $19 million Sydney Harbour mansion with a fair amount of what's said to be toilet paper strewn on the roof and splattered egg (remains) visible.

It's linked in the articles to recent adverse publicity re the airline. Police are apparently investigating with the aid of CCTV footage.

Seems bizarre that toilet paper would stay on any roof as it's light and liable to be blown off by wind. But I'm no aerodynamic engineer.

While it is private property and the law is definitive re the rights we all enjoy with that (except when governments summarily decide they want to acquire land), it might have been wiser for said individual (who is or has been in Europe) to just have it cleaned and remain silent. If it was a smashed window, a lot more serious (not that I'm condoning either).

 

[JoeyKangaroo]

That cancelled flight pipeline, to Woolies, to egging Alan's house. Not really a wise or mature way to deal with things, but least the house now can raise its value for the next toilet paper rush.

 

[Melburnian1]

That cancelled flight pipeline, to Woolies, to egging Alan's house. Not really a wise or mature way to deal with things, but least the house now can raise its value for the next toilet paper rush.

Are you including Woolworths due to the previous shortage of toilet paper (or the present one of few or no tissues available in many supermarkets)? IIRC when I read the 'egging' article there wasn't a Woolies reference.

 

[JoeyKangaroo]

Are you including Woolworths due to the previous shortage of toilet paper (or the present one of few or no tissues available in many supermarkets)? IIRC when I read the 'egging' article there wasn't a Woolies reference.

Oh no I just came up with an imaginative reason as to why this may have happened haha.

 

[andye]

NSW police will be perusing the OWA thread for suspects

 

[jb747]

Could be worse. Might have been used toilet paper…though that might explain the stickiness.

 

[Cheatah]

This reminds me of the "death threat" that Alan apparently received back in 2011 during the industrial action which ultimately lead to the lockout

Qantas publicised the death threat (presumably as they thought it would help their position/PR?) and then it all went quiet. NSW police apparently looked into but no further action was taken. Odd.

 

[Hvr]

Is the house under a QF flight path?

Maybe there was an escape from the 'honey pot' whilst it flew overhead?

 

[Princess Fiona]

News Ltd online sites have a photo of the QF CEO's $19 million Sydney Harbour mansion with a fair amount of what's said to be toilet paper strewn on the roof and splattered egg (remains) visible.

It's linked in the articles to recent adverse publicity re the airline. Police are apparently investigating with the aid of CCTV footage.

Seems bizarre that toilet paper would stay on any roof as it's light and liable to be blown off by wind. But I'm no aerodynamic engineer.

While it is private property and the law is definitive re the rights we all enjoy with that (except when governments summarily decide they want to acquire land), it might have been wiser for said individual (who is or has been in Europe) to just have it cleaned and remain silent. If it was a smashed window, a lot more serious (not that I'm condoning either).

You are aware then that “said individual” isn’t responsible for any of the media coverage on this? In fact it hasn’t as yet been reported to the police at all.
Most of the news coverage has been sourced from the suburb’s Facebook group.
None of the locals have seen either of them at the property.
They have been entirely silent on the subject.

 

[Danger]

Home Of Qantas CEO Egged & Teepeed By Protestors

The $19 million AUD home of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce was attacked overnight, with toilet paper, eggs, and fruit. Here's what we know.

onemileatatime.com

 

[Quickstatus]

None of the locals have seen either of them at the property.

None of the local saw anything else either....

 

[jb747]

They have been entirely silent on the subject.

Perhaps wisely, as it would probably give many people ideas. Interesting the ‘death threat’ story. I seem to recall that it was considered to be b/s at the time…simply something to get him some sympathy vs the frightening engineers and pilots.

 

[MrJetset]

An openly gay CEO who led the marriage equality campaign by donating $1m of his own, matched by QF's $1m gets physically assaulted on stage yet people here are defending death threats or his home being vandalised?

There is no excuse, it's abhorrent behaviour.

 

[Melburnian1]

An openly gay CEO who led the marriage equality campaign by donating $1m of his own, matched by QF's $1m gets physically assaulted on stage yet people here are defending death threats or his home being vandalised?

There is no excuse, it's abhorrent behaviour.

I didn't defend the alleged behaviour when commencing the thread, but if I may so politely, many didn't (and don't) agree with his stance on some contentious social issues.

But he shouldn't have received a cream puff on his face (despite it being somewhat of an Australian/UK tradition, reading history) or had his home daubed with eggs and toilet paper, if that's what those two items were.

However the question remains: how much 'tolerance' do some individuals (not referring to that gentleman, as don't know if he participates or funds it) aligned with the view to which you refer show when they publicly insult Catholics and other Christians at public rallies? This behaviour is also offensive to Muslims and many others who have a religious belief, who in total are the majority in Australian society.

If this gent received unwanted correspondence, he's not alone, but some occurrences are never publicised given to do so may encourage idiotic copycat individuals.

 

[jakeseven7]

That cancelled flight pipeline, to Woolies, to egging Alan's house. Not really a wise or mature way to deal with things, but least the house now can raise its value for the next toilet paper rush.

Well the Virgin CEO who is in court personally defending a bullying claim and the Virgin business is defending two themselves… there is a bunch of terrible PR going around.

Clearly all airline CEOs are dealing with some $h*t right now

 

[Melburnian1]

Well the Virgin CEO who is in court personally defending a bullying claim and the Virgin business is defending two themselves… there is a bunch of terrible PR going around.

Clearly all airline CEOs are dealing with some $h*t right now

And one other airline 'deputy CEO' keeps making predictable responses to media. Someone here even summarised them in a table, asking us to pick 'which one' (very clever, as it had not a ring of but the absolute truth to it).

 

[cove]

We know it is hard to get egg residue off as we had our front wall egged by kids a few years ago.
I think we used a Karcher high pressure water unit to get it all off. Not a nice surprise to come home and find. We now have cameras to see everything.
Alan is not popular so it could have been a disgruntled customer.

 

[jakeseven7]

And one other airline 'deputy CEO' keeps making predictable responses to media. Someone here even summarised them in a table, asking us to pick 'which one' (very clever, as it had not a ring of but the absolute truth to it).

Which bullying case do you mean? Hard to tell. There are 2 in the Federal Court and I think one is a civil case. Hard to keep track of!

 

[Melburnian1]

Which bullying case do you mean? Hard to tell. There are 2 in the Federal Court and I think one is a civil case. Hard to keep track of!

Apologies, I'm confused. I was referring to John Sharp at ZL, not Jayne H at VA. AFAIK isn't it the latter defending the cases you mention?

 

[Happy Dude]

There were no eggs whatsoever at Wanniassa Coles (CBR) last night so the culprit or culprits may have been from interstate.