Police have called for a ban on native pets being allowed into Mitchell Street nightclubs. This follows a wild melee caused by a regular offender - a drunken marsupial known to police as Sippy the lush kangaroo. The trouble is Sippy just cannot hold his liquor. Once he gets a few drinks under his skin , he thinks he is a champion boxing kangaroo and starts brawling.
It takes a dozen long suffering police officers armed with tasers, capsicum spray , nets , tranquiliser guns , tasty gumleaves and free jelly babies to subdue Sippy and the rest of the brawlers . Sippy has been warned by a magistrate that if he does not join Alcoholics Anonymous and change his ways he will be skinned and turned into a coat for the American market.
Lounge lizards in skimpy skirts are another cause of mayhem in Mitchel Street. A member of the police Stock Squad says Mitchell Street now has more stray beasts than cattle on the Barkly Tablelands .
There is so much beastly behaviour in the nightclub precinct that the famous nature expert , David Attenborough , will present the NT episodes in the Channel 7 reality show The Force : Behind the Line.
