Well, so much for Bondi Beach being one of Australia’s most famous tourist spots, eh? I know Chuckles III is still our head of state and all that, but I didn’t realise his majesty’s constabulary was our police here too. Or that our beaches were apparently part of Britain…
Honestly, though, this part of the whole Bondi horror is genuinely astonishing. Apparently this bloke Edward Crabtree was just walking past the area when the shooting started, and then in the video you see him bolt across the road and wrestle the gun from the shooter, in the course of which he was also shot twice; that’s him on the left pointing the thing at the shooter. I’m still astonished that Ed didn’t actually fire at the other guy just from nerves or something, and yes I have seen someone complaining about him not doing that, but full credit to Ed anyway. Solid brass balls.
The only problem with this story is, well, Edward Crabtree doesn’t exist. The hero of the day was, in fact, a Lebanese Muslim fruit shop owner called Ahmed Al Ahmed. And yeah, he was in the area and that’s him in the video taking the gun from the shooter and he got shot for his pains, and he was identified as Ahmed Al Ahmed in media here… so why does the above news article call him “Edward Crabtree”?
Because it’s apparently as real as Ed himself; the site is apparently an AI bullshit generator, and said AI bullshit has been picked up and spread by other AI bullshit machines like Grok. You know Grok? Edolf’s chatbot thing? Yeah, that seems to have been particularly active in spreading this nonsense all over Twitter. I can’t imagine why this story about a literal white saviour invented to cover up the truth about the guy being a Lebanese brown person might be so popular on a social media site run by a demonstrated white supremacist and mostly populated by far-right bigots, but there you have it anyway… can’t let a Muslim dude be the hero in a story about Jews being murdered, now, can we.
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