WEBVTT - The Dark Side Of Schoolies 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:02.480 Go get you every morning. 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:08.880 Every day adelaides over. It's been a hell of a 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.240 few days for the Stevens family. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.639 Yeah, so the young man who hit and killed the 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.120 police commissioner's son during schooly celebrations in Gula last year 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:21.160 has avoided jail. So Darren Randauah, who is nineteen years old, 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.800 sat silent in the dock of the district court as 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.080 the judge said. Randauah had fled the scene after striking Charlie, 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.480 but he'd done it out of panic, shock and disbelief. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.879 So he was sentenced to one year, one month and 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.200 seven days, but that was suspended, so that effectively means 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.880 he doesn't have to go to prison. He can't drive 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.680 for ten years though his Charlie's dad. Police Commissioner Grant 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.840 Stephens had this to say after the sentencing. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.440 We're grateful that this part of the entire process is over. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.800 Each court date that's come up has been difficult, stressful 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.200 and emotional for our family. We're grateful that Darren chose 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.360 to plead guilty to this offense because that brought this 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.640 part of it to a conclusion much more quickly. It's 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.880 one of those things that we are continuing to learn 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:03.440 how to live. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.080 With There's no way that you could understand what that 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.280 process would be like unless you actually went through it 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:08.760 as a family. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.319 I'm the takeaway from all of this is there's no winners. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.880 I mean, that kid avoided jail, but his life is 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.479 in tatters. His family's life is in tatters, as is 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.319 the Stephens family's life. It begs the question hazy school 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.160 is just coming up very shortly. It's just around the 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.480 corner in late November, and I'm not sure how I 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:28.160 feel about it. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.520 Yeah, I was having this conversation with the mate the 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.440 other day, and my kids are still young. So they're six, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.800 four and one, So that's where age is away from 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.240 something like this. But the thought now of sending your 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.160 kids softer schools, particularly after this particular incident last year, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.720 has it changed, And I just sort of wonder, as 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.480 we get older and older and things develop more and more, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.480 what sort of place, if any school is even takes well. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.559 I don't know about you, but the Charlie case still 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.680 feels really raw, and I think I don't know. I 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.120 saw paining firsthand at the funeral, the heartbreak, the devastation 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.360 of his family and friends, what they went through in 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.960 the wake of his death. And I think that's why I. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.079 Still feel a little bit sick about. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.040 School is coming up. And I mean, you and I 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.919 are good friends with Tom Ran. Tom Wren is very 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.360 close to the police commissioner, and he told us firsthand 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.799 of that night and that experience, and that will live 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.040 with me forever because that is a tale that no 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.560 parent wants to go through. And you canbine. You combine 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.280 alcohol and young minds, You combine alcohol on old minds, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.119 and stupid things happen, and tragedies can happen, and your 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.360 only one bad decision away from your whole life turning 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.440 upside down. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:37.400 So I don't know. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.800 I remember last year just waving off some kids on 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.920 a bus for ten News and doing some interviews with 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.960 these kids, and I just wanted to grab these young girls. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.280 And I think, because I'm the mum of four girls, 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.720 wanted to grab all of them collectively and just go 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:57.400 be careful, be careful, and make sure you make good decisions. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.480 But I think if you add alcohol in it, that 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.640 takes a way way that ability to do so, especially 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:03.919 with these young, fragile minds. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.960 Yeah, we're not the fun place we need to we 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.760 need to just stamp that down straight away. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:08.880 And it's not a oh my. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.880 God, and I'm not lecturing anyone, call them the absolute 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.680 last person to do that. But it's scary. It's scary 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.280 to see what potentially might happen. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.320 So it comes from a place and it's funny like 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.799 back in the day, and I remember my mum and 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.400 dad saying, you've got to be so careful. I went 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.880 to the Gold Coast. That's a week's worth of partying. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.799 Two by the way, it's not a weekend, it's seven 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.120 days and it's full on. I look back now and think, Jesuits, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.359 we're quite lucky that all of us, our group got 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.880 through completely unscathed. It comes from a place now with 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:37.680 a parent where you just don't want to put yourself 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.920 a kid in a spot where it's it feels like it's. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.320 Just an opportunity for something to go wrong. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.000 That's what school feels like to me now, because hopefully 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.840 everything goes right and there's absolutely nothing bad that happens 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:55.119 at all, but it's just such a mixture of opportunities 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.880 for things to go pershepe. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.160 Wrong, I know, and I think the reason why the 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.640 Stevens case affected every single South Australian is because he 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.840 acted like a parent to all of us in the 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.640 pandemic and we look to him for guidance and then 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.000 all of a sudden something like this happens to him 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.480 and you think, oh my god, that's the worst thing 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:13.920 you can go through as a parent. What if that 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.560 happens to me? So I think I think we need 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:17.520 to rethink schoolies. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:17.960 I really do. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.280 I know it's a regulated environment and the Green team 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.320 do wonderful things to try and keep kids as safe 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.400 as possible, and there is the argument they'll go off 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.359 and do it themselves somewhere else that's not regulated and 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.440 there's no one watching. But I don't know a wee 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.200 condoning a situation where ego kids knock yourselves out, And 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:38.600 I don't know how I feel about it. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.320 So that's we're on the same page with this. Those 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.080 are our thoughts. What are yours? Thirteen twenty four ten 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.640 is there's still a place for schoolies? Are we overreacting? 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.919 Are we underreacting through all of this? Should there be 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.240 more measures in place? Should be shorter, should be more condensed? 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.960 I'm not really sure, but clearly after last year as well. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.800 There's more and more question marks raised about just how 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.359 much knee there is for school. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.560 Now you're a parent who's about to give your kids 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.560 a hug and a kiss and go off you go 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.160 for a week kids, Good luck, dead of good morning? 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.040 I hate going good Oh. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.520 You've got some kids that went through it the last 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:12.200 couple of years. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.839 Yeah, I had three kids go through in the last 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.440 two years. And I remember the first year going to 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.760 pick my son up and I went through the wrong 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.640 caravan park initially, and then I've come through the second 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.200 caravan park where he actually was. It was horrific to 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:35.600 see the amount of damage that there was, like piles 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.960 of rubbish. Like the beautiful volunteers who are incredible, by 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.039 the way, Yes, so they go through and clean all 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.680 this stuff up, but the kids trash literally anything that 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:50.040 can be smashed or moved. It was horrific, and a 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.160 lot of them. And the first caravan park was all 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.600 private schools, so I was blown away. The second caravan 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.800 park was pluck public schools, not as bad, but I 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.880 just couldn't believe the amount of damage that was done. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.960 But the other thing is, don't forget about the alcohol. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:11.440 That's nothing. The drug situation is beyond belief. I was 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:16.799 mind blown by that easy access for any drug you wanted. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:24.039 My kids will kill me for saying this, hopefully they're 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.960 not listening. But I just think the kids should go 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.920 off and just organize their own little end of year 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.640 party and have a great time, but bringing different schools 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.200 together as well that may have a bit of beef 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.080 going on with each other. You know, throughout the sporting 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.680 years that they've had, there's always that bit of rivalry 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:49.280 between different schools that really comes to fruition as well 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:54.719 at schoolies. So yeah, I just I drew outed it, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.440 to be honest, and then when I went through it 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.799 for the second year or nah. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.359 Even harder because you know what's coming. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.680 Yeah, So it's the situations well with the drugs. The 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.800 drugs is when I went through, which is what two 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.159 thousand and three, yep, I can tell you right now, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.320 it was just purely and plainly alcohol. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:12.640 I'm not saying that's a good. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.480 Thing, but I think drugs really maybe four or five 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.680 years after I get that, we started to think and 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.680 know that drugs were a thing. And now to hear 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:26.720 that youngsters, it's such an incredibly open and situations of 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.520 life to beg answer that I didn't even get it 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.120 into my head that drugs could be an option. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:32.760 Oh say, well, I'm with you. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.040 I mean I was a little bit earlier than you, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.360 as you document, you know, with alarming regularity on this show. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.040 But drugs want to thing. I just definitely want to think. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.280 So that's a bit scary to hear that. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.920 Claire, good morning, Hi Trody, And how all your son's. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.160 Going through this year? He is, how do you feel 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:51.480 like that? 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.320 I'm terrified about it. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.080 I mean, he thinks that I'm a big fat drama queen, 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:02.360 but I just I just aware of what kind of 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.400 stuff that they that these kids do, And you know, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.600 I know that he's a good kid. I know that 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.760 his mate's a good kid. But I know I also 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.320 know that they do trash, like the last lady that 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.080 was on, you know, they trash everything. And I think 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.880 it should be a law that none of these kids 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.240 are allowed to have their vehicles down there. They should 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.680 all be dropped. No one should have a car because 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:36.920 it's like temptation to get in the car. Yeah, and yeah, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.920 it's I mean, you can't you just can't be naive 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.760 and think that they don't get up to stupid stuff 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.160 because they're seventeen and eighteen years old. You know, that's when. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.000 Stupid stuff is at its absolute, you. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:52.840 Know, worse. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:59.600 And yeah, it's it's quite scary because you know, because 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.120 of what last year with Charlie and that's just it's horrible. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.120 That's a very good solution to by the way, Claire, Yeah, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.000 to not have a car down there, because you're right, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.160 it's just an extra element for kids to potentially get 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.360 themselves in trouble. Thank you so much for the for 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.800 your call. And what we will say as well is 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.280 that your other son, Gussie, who is just a magnificent 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.120 young man and we have quite a lot to do 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:23.679 with Gussie, please say hello to. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:24.080 Him for us. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.760 Thank you, I will, I will, thank you, beautiful people. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:28.839 Thank you. Hey. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.760 Just around this out, I'm sitting standing here thinking my 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.120 oldest who went through school is a couple of years ago. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.800 I think back now, I had not too much communication 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.200 with her during the week, and it wasn't till six 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.320 months twelve months afterwards that she started to confess a 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.680 few of the things that happened, and she's they weren't 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.480 pretty Yeah, and if I think if I had known 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.199 at the time, I probably would have driven down a 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.360 big drop and said come home with me. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.280 And she probably knows that you were going to do it. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:56.520 That's exactly why she wouldn't tell me. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:57.839 Yeah, a lot of. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.960 Calls coming through on thirteen, twenty fourteen. We're talking about 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.439 school is and if indeed there is still a place 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.520 for it, and if so, I've brought are some alternatives 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.199 or maybe some ways to manage the situation from being 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:09.680 just to be a little bit less dangerous. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.280 Yeah, And I guess this is quite topical at the 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.120 moment because we had a verdict in the Charlie Stevens case, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.600 which was the ultimate tragedy that happened last year, and 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.360 not just two young men the lives were horrendously affected, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.840 but their families as well. And we have to ask 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.240 the question as adults, are we doing the right things 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.640 by our kids by sending them off to an environment 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.679 where you go, Okay, we know that there's going to 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:39.000 be alcohol potentially drugs involved, but good luck, you know, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.080 and they have a beautiful team down there Court in 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.880 County Youth who look after them as best as they can. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.280 But can you guarantee in this situation that everyone's going 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:48.160 to be safe, I don't know. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.640 On top of that, they're doing their best. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.840 I think the other thing which is very alarming, particularly 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.080 with the introduction to alcohol maybe for the first time, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:57.560 which should be for a lot of these kids for 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.640 the first time, because they're just turning eighteen, and kids 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.080 a trick hard spirits and things like that. And we 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.240 know that different people react differently to different types of 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.120 alcohol and that can in cite rage and all sorts 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:08.920 of things, well. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.960 Especially in young men. I guess we see it in 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.880 older men as well. There are certain types of spirits 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.679 that you can drink that just make you angry. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.040 I think for people who you know recreationally drink responsibly, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.920 you you work out which drinks you should not mix 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.560 with because they don't agree with that. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.760 That's a process that happens in adult minds over years 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.000 and years and years und percent. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:28.800 It shouldn't be happening. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.800 You shouldn't be experimenting or finding out which alcohols you 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.840 can and cannot consume whilst being down at schoolies. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.959 Why does a recipe for disaster on Rebecca? 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.800 Good morning, Hello, You've got a solution potentially. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.920 Well, just a thought I didn't go to schoolies. I 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.400 was working, but I did have friends that were at 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.640 schoolies and like the other ladies totally trash, like there 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.640 was mattresses over balconies and all sorts of things. But 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.480 what if there was a salon of like a more 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.680 controlled environment, so like maybe Wayville showgrounds or something. You 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.959 can have a camping like package where you've been camp there, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.760 or you can go home like you know, because it's 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.480 not less necessarily so far south, but I mean like 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.200 just an elaboration on like the big day out or 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.440 something like that. Yeah, back in the day, you know, 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.520 so you could still have all bands or whatever playing. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.640 You could still have like you know, not to be 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.960 a fun police, but they could still have like bars 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.320 so that those that are legally eighteen or whatever. But 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.440 it's a much more controlled environment so you can't go 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.800 and get in a car and you know, drink drive 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.160 or whatever. But yeah, yeah, yeah, sort of controlled. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.920 I don't know, I like that it's like a big 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.160 you know, two music. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.000 Festival, yeah yeah, or something like that. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:51.560 Yeah. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.920 But also beg, you make a really good point. You're 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.520 not far from mum and dad. Things go shape, then 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.240 you're not an hour south of the city. Yeah, thank 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.280 you so much for you cool. We really appreciate it. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.840 That's a really good solution, and thank you to everybody 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.120 called up. Yeah, because it's ongoing, we'll see what happens. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.000 But like we said, the volunteers and everyone that works 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.800 down there do an incredible job. Yeah, but there's only 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.600 so much that they can do because it's the numbers 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.200 thing as well. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:18.920 Yeah. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.920 Yeah, there's a lot of kids down there. But yeah, 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.160 thank you for everyone's contribution. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.600 It is that time of the year, Jode's the year twelve. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.640 Are starting to wind down and we're getting ready for 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.760 the last days of school. What comes with that Most 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.160 schools is muck, updated, unreactive. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:36.800 But what it's time of your life. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.000 This is the best time I've ever I love you guys, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.920 and we'll always stay in touch, that's what you're saying. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.200 You're twelve, will and you never stay in touch friends, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.280 And you get around in a big group huddle and 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.800 you're like, wow, guys, we'll be best friends forever. And 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.160 then like within six months you've got new friends. Yeah, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.640 and you don't even remember what school you entered. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.239 New high school friends. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.920 Well, it was good friends outsidehigh school. Because sometimes you 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.880 graduate from primary school, you're like and then next minute 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.880 you're into term two of high school and you're like, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.920 who yeah, Jenny, who yeah? 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.439 And then you find out that person down the road 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.080 he went to school, he went to jail, and you're like, what, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.400 that's crazy. One hundred Aussie school girls dressed up as 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.480 Ronald McDonald's. They flocked their local McDonald's in an epic 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.280 muck Up Day prank that's gone viral world world. These 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.480 girls were from a school in Glenarre, said Victoria. They sang, 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.720 they danced their iconic clown costumes to celebrate the end 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.120 of their schooling careers. And I've got to say, well done, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.840 young ladies, because that is a muck up Day prank 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:37.280 going in the right direction. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.960 Crazy, really crazy. I remember with my school and muck 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.120 up Day was a big thing. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.400 The same pleas you went to boarding school. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.160 And I went to a boarding school. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.920 And just a few of the things that happened across 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.840 the years Coloring Eye and the pool turned the pool 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:56.440 pink oh completely destroyed the filtering system cost fifty thousand dollars. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.200 That didn't go down too well. Another thing they us 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.520 to do is helves and I must have been in 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.480 year eight we united at this stage. The Year Twelves 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.440 went around that night before it and stole all the 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.400 shoes shoes from all the kids in the boarding houses 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.480 and put them on the main oval. So thousands of 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.640 shoes from the main over next day and all these 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.920 poor little kids trying to find matching and they were 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.120 completely all over the place. And I reckon it rained 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.960 that night as well. No, absolutely shocking. And my favorite 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.280 was a bloke whose the teacher was. His name was 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.720 mister Chandler, and he was the biggest dickhead that I've 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.720 ever met for my life, and trust me, I've met 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:36.160 some pretty ordinary people. His nickname was Prawn. So what 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.920 the Year Twelves did, maybe two years above me, was 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.680 get some roundup and a big giant grasp it on 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.200 the side of the oval, right Prawn, And that stayed 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.240 there for months until they could get it out. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.840 So sucked in, mister Chandler. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.120 Yeah, that's some fairly intensive dedication to pranks at your school. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:56.040 You deserve it. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.280 Was anyone learning anything at this I think so. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.240 And I think what's even more concerning is six months 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.280 into year twelve, when you should be really knuckling down. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:04.680 I think a lot of the boys were starting to 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.160 talk about and think about my back day. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:07.880 So that was top. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.640 Priority, not really thinking about exams or their future or 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.000 you know, the most important time of my schooling career. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.720 Anyway, that's what we used to do on the mainland. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.600 What about down in tasy Go Okay? 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.600 Okay, Well so when I down there, we do things 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.840 a little bit differently. So when you finish year ten, 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.880 you're done. So then you go off to like a 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.200 different college and you do year eleven and twelve? What yeah, 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.160 graduating year ten so. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.560 You're eleven and twelve is a different whole different system. Yes, 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:41.440 oh you got suck. Why are you sure that's like that? Now? 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:42.560 I lived it. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.480 It was my high school, so yes, that's what happened 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.640 when I went. I don't know if it's changed now potentially, 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.560 but it's almost like you went off to like a 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:51.240 tech college. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.600 It was like a different vibe. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.160 Early start on tafe. What do you mean tech college? 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.360 It's just a different Okay, life skills? Why is this 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.560 producer fly? Why is this so hard? You go to 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.960 a different place for year eleven and last flag? 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:10.199 He wasn't, No, I don't understand why you go to 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.480 another school to do you're eleven and twelve. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.159 You finished in year ten, you graduated, and then you 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.439 went off to another college to do year eleven and twelve. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.000 Well that's interesting in itself. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.440 Well, once you completed twelve, what sort of a crazy 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.639 pranks this was? 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.320 Then Mum decided that the mainland was the place to 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.199 us and we were relocated to the Gold Coast for 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.359 year eleven and twelve, where I found some normality in 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.399 my life. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.040 Anyway, So after. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.679 Year ten, on our last day, we obviously we went. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.200 I went to a school called Ogilvy, but it was 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.280 an all girls school, so everyone called it Moulgilv. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:52.640 Good stuff, that's good. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.280 So then we did what everyone did, and we've got 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.679 the texters out and everyone signed to your school uniform, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.520 which was brown and so very ugly, and we all 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.000 caught the bus into the city where there was a 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.480 park and a fountain, and because it was quite hot, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.080 we all ran through the fountain in a uniform. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:15.159 What are you serious? Oh, my very goodness. So this 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:16.840 is an over nine on nine. We're just trying to 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.639 have a little bit of fun on a Wednesday morning, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.520 and you take it to such a level where perhaps 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:22.320 the police need. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.440 To get involved. What was going on down there. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.720 I think we got told off by people walking through, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:28.439 If that helps. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:35.280 No, Onedy had to flee to the mainland. Father, he's 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.320 on the money. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.639 It's six nothing not it's fun because it's a chance 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.040 for us to really be ourselves. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:45.600 Just get into here. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.640 No, that's all the time. But if we are going 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.119