REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Monday Sept 26, 2005

GUNS, baseball bats and hammers were used as two wild brawls involving scores of people erupted on the Gold Coast.

A man was recovering in the Tweed Hospital after being attacked and beaten with a baseball bat about 5.30pm the previous day at Currumbin.

Two and a half hours after that incident, police were called to a second melee at a Burleigh Heads hotel in which 40 people waged war with pool cues, glass bottles and bar stools.

The two Gold Coast brawls followed a nasty fight among teenagers at a Brisbane residential address on the previous Saturday night.

The drama for Gold Coast police began around dusk when they were called to a Currumbin residence after complaints about a neighbourhood fracas among teenagers.

Police said the ongoing feud between two warring neighbours escalated after one of the men produced a firearm.

The fighting intensified after more than 30 teenagers armed with baseball bats and hammers clashed in the street.

Police said the brawl was triggered after a man left his Currumbin Creek Road house and drove his silver Holden Commodore sedan to a Reynolds Road residence.

It was believed an argument occurred between the driver and another man, during which a bullet from a firearm hit the Commodore.

“After the firearm was produced we believe the vehicle was shot with a projectile from that firearm,’’ said Inspector Glen Russell.

The male driver of the Commodore then left the Reynolds Road address.