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NEWS: The Herald Sun 24/11/08 "Toolies push drugs, schoolies boast of a slab a day"
Toolies push drugs, schoolies boast of a slab a day
Matt Johnston and Emily Power
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Toolies push drugs, schoolies boast of a slab a day
Matt Johnston and Emily Power
November 24, 2008 12:00am
SCHOOLIES at Lorne and the Gold Coast have admitted downing up to a slab of beer a day.
And many teens at schoolies celebrations have been offered drugs such as ecstasy and speed, with some reporting older revellers or "toolies" as the peddlers.
Toolies were also blamed for most of the trouble at Surfers Paradise this weekend where 173 people were arrested on Friday and Saturday nights. Of those arrested on the Gold Coast, 142 were not schoolies.
Police praise revellers as arrest figures drop
A Herald Sun survey of 44 male and female schoolies at Lorne and the Gold Coast found all but one said they would binge drink at schoolies. Some revealed they would regularly down 20 to 24 drinks or shots a night, saying they were intent on getting "wasted" and had a right to drink to oblivion after finishing 12 years of school.
The Herald Sun was also approached by one teen in Lorne on Saturday night asking to buy "goog" - slang for ecstasy.
But other schoolies said they wanted to remember their end-of-year party, and would avoid drugs and try to contain their drinking to several beers or spirits a night. One girl said she would not drink at all.
Of the 44 people the Herald Sun spoke to, 93 per cent said they would drink more than six standard drinks a night.
Thirty-six per cent said they had been offered drugs, had seen people take drugs or had used drugs.
Drugs reported at schoolies events include ecstasy, marijuana, speed and amyl nitrite.
One Mornington Peninsula schoolie partying at the Gold Coast said he had already spent about $200 on alcohol in the first two days, and booze was "all he spent his money on".
A Lorne schoolie said the party was a one-off where his usually moderate approach to alcohol did not apply.
"We don't really care because it's schoolies, but you know your limits," he said.
Another girl said: "We know what we can handle, it's not our first time drinking."
Though there were 24 schoolies arrests on Saturday night at the Gold Coast - the first official schoolies night - Gold Coast Police District Supt Jim Keogh said he was reasonably happy with the schoolies' behaviour.
"You have got to be realistic. If you put 20,000 teenagers into an entertainment precinct I think it would be somewhat ambitious to think that we would ever get to zero arrests," Supt Keogh said.
Most of the arrests were for public nuisance offences, and one teen was charged with two drug offences.
Lorne's Sgt Bill Matthews said new wrist bands identifying schoolies and where they were staying would make it easier for police to help disorientated people.
Police hope boosting their numbers will prevent the violence that marred previous schoolies weeks in Lorne, including assaults last year and the near fatal bashing of Mt Clear teen Jon Hucker in 2006.
SCHOOLIES at Lorne and the Gold Coast have admitted downing up to a slab of beer a day.
And many teens at schoolies celebrations have been offered drugs such as ecstasy and speed, with some reporting older revellers or "toolies" as the peddlers.
Toolies were also blamed for most of the trouble at Surfers Paradise this weekend where 173 people were arrested on Friday and Saturday nights. Of those arrested on the Gold Coast, 142 were not schoolies.
Police praise revellers as arrest figures drop
A Herald Sun survey of 44 male and female schoolies at Lorne and the Gold Coast found all but one said they would binge drink at schoolies. Some revealed they would regularly down 20 to 24 drinks or shots a night, saying they were intent on getting "wasted" and had a right to drink to oblivion after finishing 12 years of school.
The Herald Sun was also approached by one teen in Lorne on Saturday night asking to buy "goog" - slang for ecstasy.
But other schoolies said they wanted to remember their end-of-year party, and would avoid drugs and try to contain their drinking to several beers or spirits a night. One girl said she would not drink at all.
Of the 44 people the Herald Sun spoke to, 93 per cent said they would drink more than six standard drinks a night.
Thirty-six per cent said they had been offered drugs, had seen people take drugs or had used drugs.
Drugs reported at schoolies events include ecstasy, marijuana, speed and amyl nitrite.
One Mornington Peninsula schoolie partying at the Gold Coast said he had already spent about $200 on alcohol in the first two days, and booze was "all he spent his money on".
A Lorne schoolie said the party was a one-off where his usually moderate approach to alcohol did not apply.
"We don't really care because it's schoolies, but you know your limits," he said.
Another girl said: "We know what we can handle, it's not our first time drinking."
Though there were 24 schoolies arrests on Saturday night at the Gold Coast - the first official schoolies night - Gold Coast Police District Supt Jim Keogh said he was reasonably happy with the schoolies' behaviour.
"You have got to be realistic. If you put 20,000 teenagers into an entertainment precinct I think it would be somewhat ambitious to think that we would ever get to zero arrests," Supt Keogh said.
Most of the arrests were for public nuisance offences, and one teen was charged with two drug offences.
Lorne's Sgt Bill Matthews said new wrist bands identifying schoolies and where they were staying would make it easier for police to help disorientated people.
Police hope boosting their numbers will prevent the violence that marred previous schoolies weeks in Lorne, including assaults last year and the near fatal bashing of Mt Clear teen Jon Hucker in 2006.
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