Victoria’s rich and famous are going to great lengths to escape Melbourne’s lockdown
Melbourne’s elite are going to greath lengths to leave the state, using their connections and cash to escape lockdown, with one fleeing to secure a seat at the Grand Final.
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Planes, trucks and automobiles. Add in super yachts as blue-chip high flyers do whatever it takes to float their boat.
One savvy business type says he was about to jump onto the back of a freight truck to get to Byron Bay.
“I’ve paid top dollar to get squished in between the cargo,” he moaned. “It’s a long way from sitting in 1A”.
People smuggling and border breaching is the travel de jour as the rich and sometimes famous find themselves grounded. No holidays in the South of France.
A Melbourne trucking executive was so determined to get to the Sunshine State he got a trucker’s licence to sit in the passenger seat.
He then jumped onto a super yacht to self isolate.
The lynch mob is out for anyone using their connections to leave the state.
But that means nothing to the Melbourne movers and shakers determined to get to the Grand Final at the Gabba.
The latest fly-by is by private jet into the Northern Territory where one can self-isolate in top-end style, no dingy hotel rooms or draconian Queensland government protocols.
Watch this space.
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