As Listen Out prepares to hit its second weekend of shows in Sydney and Brisbane – sans Future – one more interesting tale has emerged from Melbourne’s date last Saturday.
24 punters were caught trying to smuggle illegal substances into the St Kilda event, but one punter takes the cake for this year’s most bizarre story. The man opted to hide his MDMA by cling-wrapping it to his penis, but just for extra safety, he also smeared it in pungent Vegemite in the hopes of deterring sniffer dogs.
“We found several males had the drugs wrapped in plastic and wrapped around their penis,” Port Phillip Acting Inspector Stuart Bailey said in an interview with Herald Sun. “One smothered his MDMA in Vegemite believing the…dog would not be able to detect his drugs. Wrong!”
Unfortunately, police don’t let you off for dedication when it comes to drug charges – and the man was left without his MDMA and what we can only presume to be a sweaty, bitter, breakfast-spread mess around his crotch. Other than the handful of arrests, Bailey says he was otherwise happy with behaviours of crowds on the day.
“The crowd was really well-behaved from what I saw so I was really pleased,” he said. “It was a warm day, St Kilda was pumping, but we didn’t have that many drugs… we had probably more in the medical tents because of headaches and dehydration and things of that nature.”
Listen Out hits Sydney this Saturday, before wrapping up in Brisbane on Sunday.
