Two men have been fined a whopping $3304 for eating burgers because police in Victoria weren’t happy with their choice of fast-food outlet.
Police stopped the two men on Sunday and fined them $1652 each for travelling beyond 5km from home to buy burgers from a shopping centre.
Under current coronavirus restrictions people living in metropolitan Melbourne must stay within 5km of their home to go shopping for essential supplies unless there is no stores within a 5km radius.The pair were among 346 Victorians fined in the past 24 hours for breaching the chief health officer’s restrictions.
Police arrest protesters at a Melbourne Freedom Walk at Queen Victoria Market on Sunday. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David GeraghtyMore than half of those were handed out at the anti-lockdown rally, with 176 fines and 74 people arrested as demonstrators clashed with police in ugly scenes in the CBD and Queen Victoria Market.
A Burwood East man, 44, believed to be “a primary agitator for these protests” was charged with incitement and bailed to face court in February next year.during Victoria’s second wave when stage 3 restrictions were reinstated in Melbourne in early July, a total of more than $15.1 million in fines.Hair-raising footage has emerged of a Victoria Police officer dragging a terrified woman by her feet from her car at a coronavirus checkpoint.
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