Newtown man runs out of drinking partners on first day of holidays

After just one day, the Sunshine Coasters posted a notice in the bar that they would no longer drink with the Toowoomba man – on health advice.

Whispers: Funny and unusual stories from around Toowoomba and beyond.

Newtown chap and his betrothed are enjoying some holiday time on the north coast where he has become something of a hit – or hit man.

Our man is known around Toowoomba as a chap who enjoys the odd ale or 20 and after the first day’s drinking with the Sunshine Coasters one of the locals erected a sign in the bar under the title: “NOTICE OF SEPARATION HEREBY GIVEN”

The notice read: “F*** you Padgie, not getting into a shout with you for two days in a row on health advice. We’d rather risk COVID”.

His drinking partners in Toowoomba are also thin on the ground.

WHEELIE GOOD TIME

Toowoomba based road crew made their presence known during a few weeks working in North Queensland where they resurfaced and repaired various roads.

One of the crews’ jobs included resealing a road on Magnetic Island off Townsville.

Whispers hears a bottle attendant at a Maggie Island pub now tells the story of the day a worker drove into the drive-through bottle shop on a multi wheel roller to pick up a carton of beer.

TAKING HIS CUE

Revellers in Toowoomba’s CBD might have been left wondering if it “wooden” rain on the night of October 30.

The city’s Magistrates Court heard this week of a young chap becoming agitated on the veranda of The Cube Hotel that night to the point he started throwing the pub’s pool cues off the landing onto Neil St below where night clubbers were walking between venues.

Unsurprisingly, the Rockville rogue told the court he was drunk at the time.

He has to behave himself for the next four months and pay the pub $100 compensation for the smashed cues.