A mugging, A little date rape..... Just another day in Hervey Bay

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We arrived in Hervey bay early on Friday morning after taking the night bus from Airlie. I headed to Hervey with Simon, Mike and Ben and we were staying in Hervey until Monday when we were heading to Fraser Island. There isn’t much in Hervey and it’s not really a place for tourists. After checking into the hostel we headed down to the beach and walked along the esplanade. It was really dead and there were only a couple of bars. One bonus was that we only ran into female travelers and after our last couple days on the Tallarock III, Hervey bay was starting to look promising. We sat at a pub and had a jug of beer and we noticed that every car of youths that drove by either stared at us or yelled abuse. On our way back to the hostel we received similarly warm greetings from other local youths. A car yelled abuse at us and then drove around the roundabout back towards us and yelled some more. The hostel we stayed at was licensed so we could not bring our own alcohol in. This of course didn’t stop us, we purchased the cheapest box of goon I have every seen ($8.99 for 5litres!) and snuck it into the room. It was like drinking in my room in highschool, hiding the box everytime we heard footsteps coming. We were pleasantly scared when the door was opened and two American girls, Lydia and Meagan came into our room. Thankfully they were cool and joined in our drinking. The six of us headed out to check out the nightlife of Hervey Bay. We ended up at a club called Morocco’s, which is part of the Koala’s hostel. We met up with three Irish girls that where on our night bus. All was going good, we were having couple drinks and couple laughs. At about 2 am Ben and Lydia headed home and about 20 mins later Meagan and me started walking home and 20 mins after that Mike left the bar. When Meagan and me were about half way home, when four guys started calling for us to stop. They caught up to us and we stopped and started talking to them. They weren’t being very friendly but we were trying to keep it social. One of them started flirting with Meagan and we started walking towards the hostel. After about a minute Meagan and the guy were a little ahead of us. The guy closest to me punched me in the neck, and uttered something along the lines of “ Welcome to Hervey Bay! You picked the worst place to come… give me your money”. Given my situation, I gave the guy the fifty dollars I had in my wallet. He wanted money from Meagan, but I was able to convince him that I had all the money. They fucked off and we walked back to the hostel very enraged. In my drunken rage I was scheming all sots of violence in revenge. At the Hostel we called the cops, they arrived within a couple minutes. A gave a description to the cops, they recognized the guy from the description and told us to get into the car. The cops new where to find them, we found them walking down an alley on their way to a club. We spent the next four hours in the police station filling out statements. It definitely felt good when they got arrested and the cops were confident that they would get convicted. It really sucked that this happened on the first night we were in Hervey bay, since we had to spend the next couple days there. Also that night a guy that was at the same club as us got the date rape drug put into his jug of beer. They put so much in that it almost killed him. The next day I received a phone call at the hostel from the girlfriend of one of the guys who got charged. She tried to get me to drop the charges, pleading that they had three kids and her boyfriend had nothing to do with it. Then when we were on Fraser Island the guy came to the hostel two days in a row looking for me. So need less to say I was pretty happy to get the fuck out of Hervey Bay.

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Photos

Loving The Goon
Simon serving up some goon

Hating the Goon
Surprisingly, goon tastes better on it's way up.

Having some drinks
Ben, Lydia, Meagan and Me drinking some beer @ Moroccos

Ladies Man
Simon and the Irish girls. Bastard!

Comments

[Marilyn Gerald]

Take care
Ian...that is pretty scary stuff....Please take care of yourself and forget about the revenge etc....Now it's about your English...What's this Meagan and Me stuff....It is Meagan and I....as for the F word....well I guess I could have taught you that one.

[Becca]

Get a haircut!!!!