Karaoke bar OK in Kingsway

Posted to Waverley Leader (3/7/2012) on 4/7/2012 at 12:19 PM
Posted to City of Moansh Facebook on 4/7/2012 at 12:20 PM
Commenting on " HAVE YOUR SAY: Karaoke bar OK in Kingsway"
http://waverley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/have-your-say-karaoke-bar-ok-in-kingsway/

The City shopping precinct is not very large compared with some suburbs. Having three Karaoke bars seems far from excessive. I am not proud to live in a City which is second highest in contributing towards gambling loss, or in a State claiming highest binge drinking record.

With another karaoke site where alcohol is served till 1 am, more alcohol-fuel conflicts will occur and may even flow on to the street after the trading hours. A Google search provided the following historical karaoke brawls and stabbings:

28/4/2012 – a brawl over a girl outside a Railway Parade karaoke bar left one man in hospital and another with minor injuries
20/11/2011 - a large fight in front of the karaoke bar in Railway Parade about 3am, attackers were armed with baseball bats and metal poles, 10 were admitted to hospital with various injuries
17/4/2006 - a man stabbed three times in the back at a Melbourne karaoke bar in Church Street, Abbotsford died in hospital

Many Monash Councillors are too young and have no life experience to make such crucial decision, while the remainders are so isolated from the rest of the world to understand what is like beyond the long Australian coastline.

Kingsway karaoke gets green light

Posted to Letters to Editor, Monash Weekly on 2/7/2012 at 10:00 PM
Title: "Kingsway karaoke gets green light"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/content/letterstotheeditor/

The City shopping precinct is not very large compared with some suburbs. Having three Karaoke bars seems far from excessive. I am not proud to live in a City which is second highest in contributing towards gambling loss, or in a State claiming highest binge drinking record.

With another "entertainment" site where alcohol is served till 3 am, and more than likely females providing services beyond just accompanying clients in singing, the City is doomed even if it is not mentioned in the Aztec calendar.

Competition is good for consumers but not among the competing businesses. When one's business and hence profit is cannibalised, trouble will flare. In some Australian suburbs, shopkeepers are subjected to pressures to pay protection money, and very soon City of Monash will experience the same if business operation like this is not curbed and monitored. Once organised gangs move in, it is difficult to weed them out.

Many Monash Councillors are too young and have no life experience to make such crucial decisions, while the remainders are so isolated from the rest of the world to understand what is like beyond the long Australian coastline.

Karaoka protest turned down

Posted to Monash Weekly (2/7/2012) on 2/7/2012 at 9:43 PM
Commenting on "Karaoke protest turned down"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/karaoke-protest-turned-down/2609503.aspx

The city shopping precinct is not very large compared with some suburbs. Having three karaoke bars seems far from excessive. I am not proud to live in a municipality which is second highest in contributing towards gambling loss, or in a state claiming the highest binge drinking record. With another ‘entertainment’ site where alcohol is served till 3am (should read 1 am), the city is doomed, even if it is not mentioned in the Aztec doomsday calendar.

More alcohol-fuel conflicts will occur and may even flow on to the street after the trading hours. In April, a brawl over a girl outside a Railway Parade karaoke bar left one man in hospital and another with minor injuries, and last November following a large fight in front of the same karaoke bar about 3am where attackers were armed with baseball bats and metal poles, 10 were admitted to hospital with various injuries.

Warnings are written on Glen Waverley streets, take heed!

Posted to Letters to Editor, Monash Weekly on 22/11/2011
Warnings are written on Glen Waverley streets, take heed!
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/content/letterstotheeditor/

One of the determining criteria of an address of residence is NOT to be next to or within walking distance to commercial area, particularly where alcohol is served, sleazy entertainment provided or dim dark lanes only rodents would dare to roam at night.

I had written to local papers when they approved the construction of a new six-storey Karaoke bar with licence to open to 3 am warning that more trouble would be looming and organised gangs would flourish.

Unfortunately, peace has been around since the founding of Glen Waverley, and most people have never experienced what life is like when gangs start to carve up their turfs in an area. Basic instinct of wild animals is after all territorial, or rather the urge to occupy and own territories.

Brawl outside the Glen Waverley Karaoke club

Posted to Letters to Editor, Monash Weekly on 20/11/2011
Brawl outside the Glen Waverley Karaoke club
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/content/letterstotheeditor/

I posted to Letters to Editor on Friday, 7 January 2011 regarding the Proposed Monash 6-storey Development.

I was looking into a crystal ball then. I was not scare mongering about the potential harm that could happen in the region if planning was not well thought out, allowing perceived city prosperity came before social harmony. The brawl outside the Glen Waverley karaoke club at 3 am 20/11/2011 that left six people injured is just the start.

Glen Waverley may be considered fairly affluent, and the good image can be tarnished easily in the future if drug traffickers use these commercial and entertainment venues to prey on the patrons and thugs start to claim their turfs. It is most unfortunate that cities in Melbourne metropolitan suffer from such fate and no solutions in sight!