‘Bikers against drugs’ rally turns sour – VIDEO

The bikers had come from a ‘bikers against drugs’ campaign meeting.

According to Cindy and Timothy Theunissen, a group of 70 to 100 bikers from Megaforce and MAC’s motorcycle clubs wearing their club colours stormed the Thirsty Whale at about 10.30pm.

“We have always welcomed bikers, but after a number of incidents culminating in an incident where Megaforce members beat up a customer, we imposed a ban on club colours,” said Cindy.

“Bikers are still welcome, but are requested to remove all reference to their affiliation as we feel they intimidate staff and other customers and are more inclined towards mob behaviour.”

Cindy said when they attempted to stop them at the gate, the group stormed past them and demanded to be served alcohol.

“When we refused to serve them, they threatened bar staff, managers, myself and fellow customers and brought our business to a stand-still.

We have camera footage of the threats, intimidation and damage to property when shooter glasses in a bucket were smacked off the bar and landed all over the floor.

There were drinks stolen by one of the bikers who we can identify on camera.”

The owners contacted security companies and Toti SAP. “The police arrived in a kombi and a bakkie, but drove up and down the road without coming into the parking lot. We are still waiting for the police.

The threats ensued for a further 30 minutes until they started filtering out while commenting on the ‘nice evening’ they had shutting down our place for the second time.

Should we be allowed to be bullied by these thugs who have no respect for other people’s property? I don’t think so.

What a pity you marred a good cause like an anti-drugs campaign by acting like undisciplined thugs.”

In response, president of MAC’s, Braam Stiglingh said there were members of several clubs present and most of them were not aware they weren’t allowed in wearing club colours.

“Nobody forced entry, but what may have happened was because there were lots of people on the ramp leading to the gate, it caused the front section to keep moving forward, which may have appeared to be forced, but we had no intention to force our way in.

I tried to speak to Cindy, to explain what our purpose of the visit was and she refused to talk to me or any of the other bikers. Abusive language was used by Cindy and when her dad arrived, he spoke to me and asked us to leave and set up a meeting to resolve the matter of wearing colours at Thirsty. I then went and asked the crowd to clear the place. During this period a biker/person tried to buy a beer at the counter and according to him, he accidentally bumped the tray, due to the number of people waiting to be served.

These types of accusations from club owners and the public will harm the anti-drug campaign and that is not what we want. We have invited local club owners, members of the public and bikers from other areas, to assist us with our campaign which seeks to show the youth there is more to life than drugs. We need the support of all to be able to succeed in our campaign and will inform the public of the date and place of our next meeting.”

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