A man is facing a long list of charges after a bizarre police pursuit in Perth’s south on Sunday night – during which he was chased by a herd of cattle.
WATCH THE CHASE FOOTAGE IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ABOVE
The chase began somewhat slowly about 8.45pm when officers from Murdoch Police spotted a vehicle of interest being driven on Coolbellup Avenue.
Police tried to stop the car as it turned into Forrest Road however the driver failed to stop and drove at slow speed east along Forrest Road before turning right onto North Lake Road to head south.
The man appears to struggle in the terrain. Credit: WA Police
The police helicopter above watched the man drive off before he abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot into a property on the eastern side of South Western Highway in Mundizong.
While running through a paddock the man changed direction after being chased by a herd of cattle.
“The man encountered some steep terrain and started to struggle. The Police Air Wing officers directed units on the ground to his location and he was arrested without incident, ”police said in a statement.
The 34-year-old White Gum Valley man has been charged with several offenses unrelated to the chase. He was refused bail and is due to appear in Fremantle Magistrates Court on Monday.
It is expected he will be charged with further offenses in relation to Sunday night’s pursuit.
The general manager of a barbecue restaurant in Texas says that a thief stole almost $3,000 worth of brisket on the morning of Aug. 4.
Alison Clem, the general manager of the Barbecue in Austin, Texas, said that 20 briskets were stolen by someone who jumped a fence at around 4 am and ran toward the smoker, according to FOX 7.
Clem said that she thinks the thief had been planning the theft.
“We’re kind of speculating that he’s been watching. You know, somebody that used to cook for us possibly. We haven’t had a turnover in our house since we’ve been here, so it wouldn’t be current. So, that’s also kind of strange that he knew.” Clem said.
She said the incident was caught on camera and went on for around 15 minutes.
“One of my strongest guys back there can barely lift 10 briskets in a box, and [the thief] lifted them over his head. So, I really just think that it was planned.” said Clem.
The cost of the meat, according to Clem, is $3,000 when seasoning and labor is factored in, she said.
Clem also said that while it’s the seventh or eighth time that the restaurant has been broken into, it’s the first time that meat has been stolen.
“I can only speculate that he possibly works for a food truck or a restaurant. I don’t know, even throwing a party. I have no idea,” Clem said.
A tourist has described her horror after she was charged $A800 for four drinks and a snack at a notorious Mykonos beach restaurant.
US lawyer Theodora McCormick was holidaying on the Greek island with her husband when the couple stopped at DK Oyster Bar to grab a drink.
After ordering two beers, two cocktails and some seafood, the pair were stunned to be handed the exorbitant bill, The Sun reports.
When they tried to complain, they said they were squared up to by hulking waiters.
DK Oyster Bar has previously been at the center of similar controversy and has a reputation for staggering prices.
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It has been accused of scamming tourists – allegations it always furiously denies as it defends its high prices.
Speaking from her home in New Jersey, Theodora, 50, said they had been in the beachside resort of Platis Gialos last month when they stopped at DK Oyster.
They were looking to order a taxi back to their hotel when they saw the sign outside DK Oyster which said that taxis could be ordered from inside.
“I told my husband, ‘Oh, why don’t we call a taxi and grab a drink,’” she said.
“That was my big mistake.”
When the waiter came over, Theodora said she asked for a cocktail menu, but instead of bringing one over, he rattled off a list of options.
They ordered two martinis and two beers, which they were stunned to see arrived in giant glass boots – estimated to be around three pints.
The waiter also pestered them to order some seafood and so the couple ordered a dozen oysters.
Before ordering the bill, Theodora and her husband were bracing themselves for a hefty tab – but when they received it their jaws dropped.
“It was Mykonos, we knew it was going to be ridiculous,” she said, but she expected a bill around “250-odd euros – that’s what we were thinking”.
“But when we got the bill… it was around €500 ($A800).
“My husband was like, ‘There’s got to be a mistake.”
When they tried to complain about the bill, Theodora said they were immediately surrounded by the waiters, “a group of big, hulking men.”
She went on: “They have no female waiters.”
As it was a day before they were scheduled to fly home, they felt they had no choice but to back down and pay.
She said: “I told my husband, ‘We’re in a foreign country. It’s ridiculous, but it’s obviously some sort of scam. We’ll pay up and try to deal with our credit card company later.’”
Describing the “weird experience,” Theodora said it was only when they got back to their hotel and looked at the DK Oyster Bar’s hundreds of negative reviews on TripAdvisor that they realized they weren’t alone.
“I feel foolish,” she said. “It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing. We weren’t planning on eating there, but we saw the sign.”
She added: “They’re never going to have any repeat business, but I suppose they get enough people from around the world that there’s always a supply of fresh meat.”
Theodora said that they had visited a number of the Greek islands as well as Mykonos, and that most of their meals were “extremely reasonable,” and that they were often able to enjoy great meals for just €40 ($A60).
Her experience is echoed by hundreds of other customers, with DK Oyster having a 2.5 star rating on TripAdvisor from 1532 reviews as of publication.
The bar has 635 one-star, 33 two-star, 19 three-star, 52 four-star, and 339 five-star reviews.
Furious customers blasted the restaurant as the “worst experience ever”.
However, other customers were more positive, praising the restaurant’s setting and saying “prices are good for the high class restaurant it is”.
DK Oyster has a reputation for high prices and was recently fined $A43,000 after an audit by Cyclades Regional Tourism Agency, reports Prototheme and the Greek City Times.
The investigation was sparked by two Americans who claimed they were charged more than $800 for a pair of mojitos and some crab legs.
And this week, the bar’s owner Dimitrios Kalamaras issued a direct response to his critics and denied customers’ claims they don’t know the prices before they step inside.
He accused many of his reviewers on TripAdvisor of lying, and said following “dozens” of similar “false” claims, he had installed three blackboards at the entrance to the restaurant displaying his prices.
Mr Kalamaras also said that “no adult in their right mind” would order a drink without seeing how much it costs first and told customers to discuss the price with the manager before they order.
Justifying his higher-than-average prices, he said that DK Oyster’s “concept” was completely different to other restaurants.
And he accused critics of being “influencers” who were looking for a free meal.
“Unfortunately, all of us who work in the hospitality sector have been approached by notorious ‘influencers’ who instead of making their living by advertising products and services to their audience, they put pressure on certain businesses for exorbitant fees and free meals,” he said.
“In DK Oyster, we have advertised in the ways we consider suitable for our restaurant and we will not succumb to the influencers who have been attracted to the beautiful island of Mykonos.”
Previously, a British tourist revealed how he was charged £360 ($A600) for four drinks and a snack at the restaurant.
Londoner Jak Kypri was visiting the Greek island – and thought that he wouldn’t be ripped off because he spoke Greek.
“I thought if they try to scam me I’ll tell them to p**s off and give me the real price.”
But when he walked in, Jak said that waiters didn’t offer him a menu, instead telling him what they had.
Jak ordered two tequilas, two beers, and some shrimp which, when it arrived, was just “six prawns.”
To his horror, when the bill arrived, Jak was handed a receipt for an eye-watering €425 ($A600).
Meanwhile another UK tourist claimed she was charged £50 ($A90) for lemonade that she said was so bitter it was undrinkable.
And a dad lashed out at the restaurant after his daughter was allegedly charged nearly £300 ($A500) for a single meal.
The Sun Online has approached DK Oyster Bar for comment.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission
A new player in smart cameras offers up tilt and pan control, but really needs to work on the app experience. What makes the Aqara Camera Hub G3 good today?
Our homes aren’t the same as they used to be, and that’s something that doesn’t take much effort or thought to realize. Smart lights, smart speakers, smart TVs and so on and so on mean so much around the house is now labeled as “smart”, but what does that even mean, and how do you control them?
The obvious approach is by your phone, and then maybe through your voice. Call out and your home can stack signals and routines, making actions happen based on concepts you’ve programmed, but these aren’t the only options available to you.
As the smart home evolves, it’s also our faces and hands that can gesture for things and stuff to happen. While your face mightn’t launch a thousand ships like Marlowe wrote, it could be the thing to open a door, or even lock another. So how do you do this, and is the technology available now?
A new player in the world of the smart home in Australia could have something for that, as Aqara launches not just a security camera, but a “camera hub”.
What is the Aqara Camera Hub G3?
Not quite a hub, but definitely a camera, the Aqara Camera Hub G3 is a PTZ security camera for the home that comes with ears and painted on sleepy eyes when it’s off, as smart home brand Aqara tries its hand with a subscription-free approach to secure the smart home.
The G3 camera isn’t the only smart home gadget Aqara makes; there’s also a G2H and G2H Pro camera, curtain and rollershade controllers, door locks, a light bulb or two, and several detectors for smoke, gas, motion, vibration, water leaks, temperature, and so on and so on.
Like many things related to the smart home, the idea is to equip your home with the smart versions of things you need, and then work with the system to join the dots, allowing bits and pieces to talk to each other so your home can do things for you.
What does it do?
With the Camera Hub G3, doing things for you is both for security and for home control.
Much like other security cameras, you can turn the Aqara G3 Camera Hub to monitor for familiar faces, pets, and intruders, and have that information pop up with an alert. It can also track things that are familiar and act on them, such as when you come home and you want to do something — like turn on the lights — or even make a gesture to the camera, and have an action play out because of that .
The Aqara Camera Hub G3 will talk to pretty much every system, playing nicely with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple’s HomeKit, Zigbee, and even the IFTTT platform, basically making it work with pretty much every other smart home system you might encounter in Aussie shops. Handy.
One of the more interesting features is that it’s largely a subscription-free approach to the smart home, doing away with a monthly or even yearly cost of gadgets these days, and instead just letting you link it up with what you have. Gone is the monthly or yearly cost, and instead you just plug it in, set it up, and away you go.
The Camera Hub G3 needs to be permanently powered — no battery here! — and can rotate in its spot, tilting up and down, too. That’s the nature of a Pan-Tilt-Zoom “PTZ” camera, similar to what Canon made with its PowerShock Pick, but unlike that compact, there’s no battery in the Aqara G3. You’ll need to keep the USB Type C port plugged in and powered to use this.
Do that, though, and you’ll find 360 degrees of camera aiming, several degrees of tilting, plus support for night mode and object tracking, all available in 2K video, running at 2304×1296.
When you don’t want the camera to be doing anything, it’ll even shut up shop, tilting the camera so far down that it’s hidden with only a sleeping face left on the camera. Cute.
Does the Camera Hub G3 do the job?
A bit of a jack-of-all-trades as far as security cameras go, we’ve not seen a local player try what Aqara is doing in this model. This isn’t just a security play for the home, but also a smart home controller.
You can register your face and set up an assortment of functions, and triggering parts of your home if you have extra sensors, locks, or smart devices, such as an Amazon Echo or Google Nest Hub.
Security alerts are the obvious feature, but gesture support and face recognition mean you can set the Aqara Hub to monitor for specific things, and make smart gadgets do other things. A gesture could be linked to a curtain being lifted, while a face could unlock a door. That sort of thing.
What does it need?
But being a jack-of-all-trades comes with some catches, because it’s the basic things the Aqara Camera Hub G3 seems to mess up at.
You can’t turn the LED off forever, only at times. You can’t program your own motion mode by selecting what you want to track and where, and you can’t crop your field of view to a specific area.
And notification videos don’t have a cloud option, only a microSD option or save to your phone, basically making the Aqara security camera system a net-controllable one, but not necessarily a cloud one. This isn’t quite the Arlo competitor, or even the Google Nest Cam competition Aqara may think of itself as.
Aqara has also left out pre-built automations, so you kind of have to do everything yourself. Uploading a picture or two of your family for the camera to track is easy enough, but getting it to send an alert or record a video becomes you learning Aqara’s own take on If This Then That, which is easy enough, but time consuming. Prebuilt automations would be super handy here, but they just don’t seem to exist in the Aqara app.
It’s not just the app that struggles to do things, but also the feature set. Namely what the camera presents itself as when you take it from the box.
Open the box for the Aqara G3 Hub, and the camera arrives with cute little silicone cat ears pre-installed, almost like what the Arlo Baby offered. That’s all well and good, but there are no kids mode options in the app.
For instance, while you can track people and dogs and cats and such, you can’t set the camera app to monitor for kids crying or if the temperature is too hot. It’s not a camera for the nursery or your kids room, even if the silicone ears suggest otherwise.
It’s kind of surreal, almost as if Aqara had an idea of what it was going to do, and didn’t follow through. The company could probably add it with new software, and it could probably fix most of these complaints on software, but the fact that this is the G3 — presumably the third generation — and we’re still not there, well that’s something Aqara needs to think long and hard about, especially for the G4 version.
Is it worth your money?
At $195, Aqara’s Camera Hub G3 provides an interesting approach to security the smart home, especially given it is largely subscription-free. In an era where everything seems to have a subscription to make a little extra money from you with long-term support, this sort of approach is foreign and unusual, which makes the Camera Hub G3 worth it, at least on paper.
It isn’t perfect, though, and Aqara really needs to work things out. Better functionality in the app, support for a battery variation, and if you wanted to, a cloud option would be really appreciated. We love the idea of a microSD card for storage, but it should really be a choice: store locally, or store on Google or Dropbox. Or maybe even both.
A battery would help make this even better, too, allowing you to set the camera up outside to do that little bit more. Pick up on faces, on objects, provide tracking and identification and so on and so on.
These are just examples of things Aqara needs to work on. We love what the company is trying to build out, making the security camera more than about simply security, but about controlling the smart home in its entirety.
The idea of a whole home concept is here, but it just needs to be finished. Fortunately, it’s a solid idea, and you just get the feeling that in G4, Aqara will be so much closer.
Yay or nay?
Right now, we’d have a hard time calling the Aqara G3 Camera Hub the best security solution, because it’s not. The bones of a great idea are here, but it’s only a neat idea for some rooms, not all.
At a little under $200, the Aqara Camera Hub G3 may be a best fit for small homes without a big need for security. The idea of security doesn’t seem as well developed as home controlling, although we suspect in time that it will change.
Overall, the Aqara system does seem like something that will grow with you, but we’d wait until the feature set is more polished until we outfitted the entire home in gadgets made by the brand. It’s a positive start for holistic smart home technology, and we’ll be watching Aqara eagerly.
Aqara Camera Hub G3
the good
Subscription-free approach to security
Can be rotated and tilted (it’s a PTZ camera)
2K resolution is handy
Comes with cute little silicon cat ears for the kids room
Hardware privacy mode is cute
Gesture support is a neat inclusion
Does more than just act as a form of security and can trigger other function
Compatibility for Amazon, Apple, Google, IFTTT
The not-so-good
Subscription-free approach to security means you need to BYO storage
Athletes like Emma McKeon, Georgia Godwin and Oliver Hoare have captured Australians’ attention at the Commonwealth Games, and the likes of “Rin”, “Jakino” and “Fern” could one day be up there too.
It is not as fanciful as it may sound. On the final weekend of the Games in Birmingham, the inaugural Commonwealth Esports Championships were held as a pilot to see whether it could be a part of the Games proper.
There are currently 16 sports already confirmed for Victoria 2026, with organizers looking to add three or four more to the final program by the end of September.
“We signed an MOU (memorandum of understanding) with the Global Esports Federation which doesn’t stop after this Games,” Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive Katie Sadleir said.
“It’s a long-term commitment to learning, transferring knowledge.”
Ms Sadleir said the CGF would conduct an independent review after the Birmingham event to consider what the future of esports at the Games could look like.
“We will evaluate all options and look at what is the best win-win for the partnership,” she said.
“It’s not just about whether or not we would like esports in the Games, it’s also about whether or not esports wants to be inside the Games.”
Exorcisms and dragon slaying the new sporting frontier
Australia lost to Singapore in the Dota 2 women’s bronze-medal match.(Supplied: Global Esports Federation)
Having watched rowdy crowds pack into venues all over Birmingham to cheer on athletes from Niue to Nigeria, in sports as diverse as weightlifting to rhythmic gymnastics, it feels a little strange stepping into the esports arena.
It is being held at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre, and there is a small crowd gathered to watch Australia and Singapore face off in the women’s Dota 2 bronze-medal match.
Two teams of five are placed on an impressive-looking stage, each player with their own computer and headset, while the multi-player battle arena video game is displayed on a big screen overhead.
There is even a live commentary, albeit pretty different from the typical sports event.
“A lot of Australia’s damage is coming on the exorcism,” one of the commentators says.
Cheers and applause break out when there’s a flurry of activity on the big screen. It is hard to tell what’s going on, but maybe a dragon slaying?
This is different, but that’s the point. The CGF wants to tap into a new, younger audience, who might not traditionally engage in mainstream sport.
And the potential money on offer does not hurt either — the global esports market is currently valued at about $2 billion, dominated by Asia and North America.
There are several different bodies that govern esports. This event is being looked after by the Global Esports Federation (GEF).
The players are not involved with the politics behind the scenes, but they are excited to be on a world stage, just like any athlete representing their country.
Five players represented Australia in the women’s Dota 2 competition.(ABC Sport: Amanda Shalala)
Adelaide’s Lynley-Ann Dodd, or Rin, is a member of the Australian women’s Dota 2 team.
The 29-year-old has been playing games for most of her life and she said the growth of esports meant a lot to people who were not interested in traditional sport.
“I wish I could turn it back and look at my younger self — 13, 14 — when I first started this game and be like, ‘You could do it,’ because I never felt like there was that possibility,” she said.
“I gave up on myself multiple times because there was not that possibility.
“And I think now being able to be a role model for… women, teenagers, children who actually enjoy games, who want to be able to take it seriously, that is the best gift of all from this.”
The Australian women’s Dota 2 team enjoyed an opportunity to compete in a big international tournament.(Supplied: Global Esports Federation)
Another member of the Australian team, Sydney’s Antonia “Jakino” Cai, 28, also sees the market value in established sporting organizations engaging with esports.
“Esports is going to be getting bigger over the years as technology gets better, and all the young people will know about it,” she said.
“There’s going to be a lot of money invested into this. We already have tournaments that are [worth] millions of dollars.
“So this is going to be getting bigger and the next step is putting it into the Commonwealth Games or Olympics.”
Can esports be a sport for all?
Esports are still dominated by men, although women from Asia are leading the way for greater representation.(Supplied: Global Esports Federation)
The Commonwealth Games ethos is about being the friendly and inclusive Games, with a particular focus on women and people with a disability.
And esports has its challenges when it comes to being a truly welcoming environment for women.
“There is that perception that women aren’t as good, and for me I believe it’s since we don’t have that many women in the area,” Sydney’s Kanyarat “Fern” Bupphaves said.
“We don’t have as much exposure to show how good and how talented women can be. The guys have been playing for years on end, whereas the girls haven’t had as much support to grow in this area.”
The topic was tackled at a forum hosted by GEF as part of the exhibition event. It looked at whether having open and women’s categories at tournaments was the answer.
Sophie Spink, from global sports management company Portas Consulting, said parallels could be drawn with Formula 1, which is open to all drivers — but there has never been a female F1 driver.
“And in the last few years they’ve released the (all-female) W series and it was highly controversial when it first came out because they said people can compete in F1, they don’t need this platform,” she said.
“But the athletes themselves [were] calling for this as an opportunity for them to demonstrate their skills.
“And yes, probably the end goal is for full integration, but those milestones in between are really important. And to give those grassroots drivers the visibility, the role models are so important.”
Head of Global Esports Academy Tom Dore also told the forum that esports provided unique opportunities for people of all genders, ages and abilities.
“We have the case studies of the inclusion of neurodiverse individuals, young people in wheelchairs playing alongside their able-bodied friends in esports in the way they can’t do or haven’t been able to do in traditional sports,” he said.
GEF commission member and former New Zealand national women’s football team player Rebecca Smith said esports could help young people who did not engage in the usual team-based activities.
“I find it really hard watching some of the kids come through that don’t know how to handle some of the pressure or some of the challenges that are coming [in life]and this is what sports teaches you,” she said.
“So I think that there’s so many opportunities in esports to learn traditional sports values, like communication, resilience, teamwork.”
Esports will be a part of next year’s Asian Games, and if it gets the green light for the Commonwealth Games, perhaps an Olympics appearance could be on the horizon too.
A Sydney council investigation has found 700 of its residents’ recycle bins were regularly dumped into the same rubbish truck as garbage bins.
Canterbury Bankstown reviewed its waste system after Herald revealed the practice had gone on for decades, infuriating residents who had faithfully separated their landfill from recyclables without being told their efforts were pointless.
In response, the council has redesigned runs and added more trucks. It is also introducing new technology that will identify which households and streets are routinely contaminating recycling trucks, so education campaigns can be targeted.
The furore over the revelations has fueled a local push to split the mega-council of Canterbury Bankstown, which was created in 2016 as part of the Baird government’s controversial policy to merge Sydney’s local councils.
On Monday, Major Khal Asfour said the preliminary findings of the rubbish review, prompted by the Herald’s story, showed general and recycled waste were mixed in narrow streets and laneways because the street size posed a safety risk to larger trucks.
It affected 700 of the region’s 400,000 bins each fortnight.
“The issue was the massive side loaders, they’re big trucks, they don’t fit down these roads, there’s safety issues for motorists, pedestrians,” he said. As a result, council had added extra, smaller trucks to its fleet that could fit more easily into narrow streets.
Residents of other councils also told the herald that they had caught rubbish collectors doing the same thing.
Tony Khoury, the executive director of the Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of NSW, said councils were often forced into a situation in which they had to do bin collections in daylight hours due to complaints about noise overnight.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission received a call about the incident at around 3:45 pm Thursday, according to a statement shared with CNN. Lake Thonotosassa is in Hillsborough County, near Tampa.
The Hillsborough County Fire Rescue transported the 34-year-old victim to the hospital, the fish and wildlife commission said, adding that it dispatched a contracted alligator trapper to the lake and is continuing to investigate the incident.
Around 1.3 million alligators live in Florida, in all 67 counties, according to the commission. The agency recommends people stay away from alligators and avoid handling or feeding them. Nuisance alligators — those that are 4 feet or longer and believed to pose a threat to people, their pets or property — are trapped and killed by the agency through its Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program. A total of 9,442 nuisance alligators were killed in 2021, the commission says.
There have been at least three fatal alligator attacks in the US this year. In July, an elderly woman died after falling into a lake and being grabbed by two alligators in Florida. Another person was killed by an alligator near a retention pond in South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach in June. And a Florida man was killed by an alligator while searching for Frisbees in a lake in late May.
Activision has finally announced when it will be revealing more details on Call of Duty: Warzone 2. We’ve known for quite some time now that the follow-up battle royale shooter, which Activision is only referring to as “Warzone 2.0,” would be releasing at a time later in 2022. And while the end of the year is rapidly approaching , we still haven’t seen anything about what will be next for war zone. Fortunately, Activision has now confirmed that more information will be coming around the corner in a new event next month.
Revealed in a new blog post on the Call of Duty website, Activision detailed what it’s calling “Call of Duty: Next,” which is an event slated to take place on September 15th. In short, Call of Duty: Next will feature news on “the imminent future of Call of Duty” which includes information on Modern Warfare 2, war zone 2and the mobile port of Call of Duty: Warzone. Rather than revealing all of these details slowly over time, Activision and developer Infinity Ward have opted to instead have one mega-event that will highlight a number of upcoming projects.
Clear your calendars September 15 for #CODNEXT – an era-defining, livestream franchise event.
✅full #ModernWarfare2 MP reveal ✅ The future of #Warzone ✅ The #Warzone mobile experience ✅ Live gameplay from your favorite streamers
— Call of Duty @ #CDLChamps (@CallofDuty) August 7, 2022
In addition to seeing new footage from Modern Warfare 2 and war zone 2 at this event, there’s a good chance that we could also get a launch date for the latter title at Call of Duty: Next. given that war zone 2 is set to release before the end of the year, Activision is nearing the point where it would likely start revealing more plans for launch. If a release date does come about at this event, we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop here on ComicBook.com.
whenever Call of Duty: Warzone 2 does release, it will be coming to PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC. The game won’t be compatible with the original war zonehowever, which means that progress and items won’t transfer to the sequel.
How do you feel about Activision opting to hold one big showcase to show off more of what’s coming to Call of Duty in the future? And what are you specifically expecting to see from war zone 2? Let me know either down in the comments or reach out to me on Twitter at @MooreMan12.
The NRL has conceded the use of the captain’s challenge “needs to be reviewed,” however no action will be taken regarding the Wests Tigers’ controversial loss to the Cowboys in Round 19.
Meanwhile, the Tigers have confirmed they will not pursue the matter any further.
The Tigers lodged a formal complaint after the Cowboys received an escort penalty in the final seconds of the game, allowing Valentine Holmes to kick the matchwinning goal.
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While there were big question marks raised over the penalty itself, there was also confusion over how the Cowboys were able to trigger a captain’s challenge when it seemed like play was never stopped.
As a result the Tigers demanded answers and began looking at legal options to potentially get the result overturned.
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The NRL acknowledged that the escort penalty was incorrect but stood by the Cowboys’ right to use their captain’s challenge.
Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe and chairman Lee Hagipantelis met with ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys, NRL CEO Andrew Abdo and NRL head of football Graham Annesley last week to discuss the matter.
The NRL released a statement on Monday afternoon to confirm that no action will be taken regarding the result other than a review of the captain’s challenge at the end of the season.
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“The Chairman and CEO of the Wests Tigers met with the Chairman of the ARLC, NRL CEO and NRL Head of Football last week,” an NRL statement read.
“The meeting was agreed to discuss various aspects of the rulings made in the final minutes of the Wests Tigers and North Queensland Cowboys match on 24 July 2022, being the subject of a formal complaint lodged by Wests Tigers with the NRL.
“The NRL has acknowledged the concerns raised by the Wests Tigers and in response has put forward its interpretation of the rules which enabled the Captain’s Challenge to be made and the subsequent decision of the Bunker match official.
“The NRL has already acknowledged that the Bunker official decision of “escort” was incorrect, leading to the erroneous awarding of a penalty in favor of North Queensland Cowboys which ultimately decided the match.
Tigers Chair won’t rule out legal action | 04:10
“On the matter of whether the Captain’s Challenge was permissible in terms of how the rules were drafted, the NRL and the Wests Tigers expressed differing views and interpretation.
“The NRL is comfortable with the interpretation that was applied but has acknowledged, in light of the concerns raised by the Wests Tigers, that the rule needs to be reviewed at the end of the season to provide more clarity so as to ensure that there is no future misunderstanding as to the intent and application of the rule. Wests Tigers will be consulted as part of the review, together with other interested Clubs and stakeholders.
“The NRL acknowledges the professional and respectful manner in which the representatives of the Wests Tigers have pursued their concerns on behalf of their Club’s members and fans.
“There will be no further consideration in relation to the match of 24 July 2022.”
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Following the NRL’s decision, the Tigers released a statement to confirm the club will not pursue legal action.
“Wests Tigers have decided not to pursue a course of legal action following the club’s loss to North Queensland Cowboys in Round 19 of the NRL Telstra Premiership,” the statement read.
“The club, through Chair Lee Hagipantelis and CEO Justin Pascoe, has been involved in lengthy discussions with the NRL over the past two weeks, and following the receipt of external legal advice, has decided against pursuing this matter any further.
“The NRL has acknowledged, in light of the concerns raised by the Wests Tigers, that the rules do need to be revised at the end of the season, so as to prevent similar incidents occurring again. Wests Tigers will be consulted as part of that review.
“Wests Tigers have been overwhelmed and humbled by the support the club has received from its members and fans.
“We have made our point to the NRL and made it forcibly. We did so on behalf of our members and fans and gave voice to their legitimate concerns that the outcome of the match was not just nor fair.
“We extracted a concession from the NRL that the obstruction penalty which was given was erroneous and therefore, by implication, Wests Tigers should have won that match.
“We know it, everyone knows it. Unfortunately, the history books will not record it that way.
A fed up Ray Hadley has stormed off midway through a live broadcast after enduring 30 minutes of “technical difficulties”.
The 2GB host was presenting his program from the Ekka, the annual agricultural show of Queensland, in Brisbane when he became increasingly agitated that the show wasn’t running smoothly.
Hadley repeatedly apologized to listeners and threw ad breaks throughout the first 60 minutes of the three-hour long program.
“All I can do is apologize most sincerely for the first 30 minutes of the program which has been a complete and utter fiasco,” he said.
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“But I do apologize. I’m broadcasting from the Ekka, which I didn’t get a chance to tell you because nothing seemed to work.
“I hope it is currently working and we’ll see what happens from hereon… and obviously we’ll be having some discussions at midday about the fiasco I’ve presided over.”
The host threw several breaks telling listeners “there are people here trying to fix things – unsuccessfully I might mention”.
Another round of advertisements followed before Hadley decided to throw the towel in.
“Look, we are having some rather severe technical problems here at the Ekka to the extent that Mark Levy will be looking after the program after ten o’clock this morning, for which I do apologize to Mark and everyone else,” he said.
Hadley then went on to tell listeners he was making his way “back to Sydney” despite the program being scheduled to broadcast live from the showground until Friday.
“I’ll make my way back to Sydney and I’ll be broadcasting from the studio in Sydney tomorrow given the problems we’ve encountered this morning,” he told listeners.
Nine Entertainment refuted the claims, telling The Australian Hadley “will be on air at the Ekka for the rest of the week”.
