Deadline: Readers send ‘thoughts and prayers’ to Bec Judd and Brighton

Bec Judd may be rightfully fearful of a spike in crime in Brighton, but many suggest she should take a squiz at some of Melbourne’s less grandiose suburbs.

Some readers have urged Bec Judd has been urged to spread her wings and explore some of Melbourne’s less glamorous suburbs. Picture: Instagram

Andrew Rule and Mark Buttler with the latest scallywag scuttlebutt.

Hit the road, Bec, say readers

Plenty of feedback after Bec Judd last week spoke of her fear of the level of violence in Brighton.

As legitimate as her concerns may be after a number of recent incidents, many seem to believe Judd needs to get out of Bayside and have a bit of a look around.

One Deadline reader and proud western suburbs man says he’s happy to show Judd some of the sights if she’s open to heading across town for a squiz.

“She needs to get on the train and head out to the west and I’ll shout the Red Rooster. The most dangerous thing in Brighton would be burning your lips on a too-hot latte.”

Many readers on the Herald Sun’s Facebook page were singing the same tune.

There were invitations to travel to Dandenong, Broadmeadows, The Pines and Braybrook.

Bec Judd has won some support from fellow Brightonians. Picture: Instagram

One contributor from as far away as far North Queensland claimed the FNQ city was NFG.

“Thoughts and prayers to Bec Judd and the rest of Brighton. What a dodgy area that is,” read one comment.

Another said of Brighton gang violence; “are the Mercedes drivers saying mean things to the BMW drivers”.

One poster, questionably laying claim to being a local, said: “It’s like when I leave my home in Brighton, and am on the Nepean Highway, I see gangs everywhere, or poor people, well whoever they are, same thing. Anyway, they’re in cars that are more than 4 years old and they shop at Kmart.”

TV man tied one on after strip show

Many tales have been recounted about the halcyon days of King St nudie bar Goldfingers since it went up in flames last week.

One concerned a TV personality who found himself short of a tie for a night out, which was to eventually wind up at the King St club.

Before leaving work, he grabbed a spare belonging to one of his colleagues, a respected and sober public figure.

Things went off the rails and the borrower ended up at Goldfingers way after midnight.

That was where the neck garment was removed by a female employee who used it for what is said to have been a crowd-pleasing display.

Fair to say the show was very much at odds with the wholesome image of its household name owner.

Those in the know would later quietly watch with fondness as he wore the item on the small screen before hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Former dancers at the old Goldfingers, well before it went up in flames.

Rumour loses its shine

It’s been one of hottest rumours in legal circles for some time.

Talk has been persistent that law firm Shine has bought out the famed Slater and Gordon operation.

Not true, according to both parties.

Our Herald Sun colleague Steve Drill has drilled into the matter and is assured there is nothing going on.

Tools stolen, tools arrested

Police have struck a blow against the kind of parasites who increasingly prey on our hardworking tradies.

A Cranbourne man and woman were arrested over the theft of $500,000 in power tools after an investigation by Frankston CIU.

They recovered 100 power and hand tools related to thieving from trailers and cars parked at trade sites and shopping centres in the past two months.

That’s a lot of drama for people just trying to earn an honest living.

The pair allegedly struck at Chadstone, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Frankston, the City, Mornington and Narre Warren.

They have been charged with nearly 50 theft-related offences.

Police have struck a blow for Melbourne’s hardworking tradies.

When cops were bagmen

State of Origin contests were always brutal affairs in the 1980s, but few could reach the heights of a quiet clash between two slippery combatants rumoured to have ended up with both in body bags.

In the best traditions of odd couple detectives being thrown together to solve a crime, a red-headed and immaculately moustached regional Victorian cop suddenly found himself paired with his Croweater mirror image after it emerged the victim of the homicide he was investigating was from South Australia.

For the other police on the grisly scene the sight of matching copper-headed coppers working together at least brought some light relief — though not so much for the Victorian detective who was 20kg heavier than his South Australian rival, a fact often pointed out as a way of telling the “twins” apart.

After sharing the grim task of transporting the victim’s remains over the border to Renmark for further forensics the pair decided to settle their interstate rivalry in the most mature manner possible … having noticed an adult playground conveniently close by.

While he may have been playing an away game the Vic Dick did his state proud, his extra weight providing a decisive factor as they raced down the giant side-by-side in front of other assembled officers.

By the time they reached the bottom of the slide there was no need for a photo finish, but the victory was still captured by crime scene photographers on black and white film that has since been filed among VicPol’s most restricted files.

But one of those in high enough places to have seen the photographic evidence tells Deadline of a forensic effort being undertaken to find a last minute substitute for kid-sized sliding mats, with body bags proving a more than handy adult alternative.

Those closer to the case deny the use of body bags but refuse to provide the evidence on the grounds they, and the dozens of other behind the (crime) scenes photos gathered for the file over a 20-year career, may incriminate.