Men, women come to blows at taxi rank outside Toowoomba pub
Footage has emerged of a wild brawl outside a popular Toowoomba pub where a group of women came to blows, pulling hair and tossing each other around. WATCH:
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A Kippa Ring man will be $862 poorer after he was fined for his part in a wild brawl at the taxi rank outside a Toowoomba pub in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Dashcam footage of the incident shows two couples engaging in a heated exchange of words as one couple was getting into a taxi shortly after 2am on Sunday.
A woman then exits the taxi and confronts another women on the footpath but is soon thrown to the ground as a third woman intervenes.
Within a few seconds several security guards and police officers converge to break up the fight and the principal agitators are taken away.
Police have confirmed at least one person, a 25-year-old man, was issued with an $862 fine for public nuisance.
In total 45 people were dealt with for 55 offences in Toowoomba’s Safe Night Precinct over the New Year’s weekend.
The bulk of those offences were for consuming liquor in public and public nuisance.