Banned From Every Alcohol Selling Establishment in Western Australia

(upbeat music) Hey, I'm Tara Sarabhan, and you're listening to World's Dumbest Criminals. If you're keen to hear about the most ridiculous, bizarre and downright stupid criminals and crime stories in the world ever, you've come to the right place. In today's episode, you'll be hearing about a self-described bogeon named Kyle, who was legally banned from every pub, club, and alcohol selling establishment in Western Australia after a run-in with a bouncer. I'll be chatting with Kyle about the incident that went viral and what the aftermath has been like for him. It may well prove to be the most Aussie interview ever. Alrighty, let's get cracking. On September 11th last year, 20-year-old Kyle Ferguson went out for drinks in Perth to celebrate a mate's birthday. He told the media a security guy said he wouldn't let him into a club because his ID had a chip in it and because he was dressed like a fucking redneck. Rather than give Kyle his wallet back and send him on his way, the security guy chucked it across the street and asked him, "What are you gonna do about it?" In response, Kyle threw a punch at the bouncer, which he recognises in hindsight was not the best way to handle the situation. Soon afterwards, Kyle received a legal document in the mail stating that he was banned from every alcohol selling establishment in the entire state of Western Australia. He made a tick-tuck about receiving the ban, which immediately went viral. News networks rushed to interview Kyle, resulting in Aussie as sound parts like this one. - Well, what guys in the Hackele was? Yes, I go to seven now. It's telling me on ban from basically every public club the alcohol establishment here in W.A. for about a year, which is all I think is going on in the show and by all means, I'm ban from everywhere. - I'm a bankier W.A. police. I, for the first punch, I'm a honest, I did mock up when it was my own mistake, but I don't think a ban for every public innocent W.A. is fair. I'll call that just to abuse the power. Some of them probably does not walk me in the higher ups of W.A. police. Or most probably the daughter or something or the. - While I was researching this story, I came across another TikTok where Kyle talked about receiving death threats and a bunch of hate after his antics reached the headlines. Initially, I found that surprising, but then I remembered what a toxic shit hole full of anonymous hate the internet can be. So rather than just me talking about the case, I reached out to Kyle through TikTok to see if he'd be interested in coming on the podcast to have a chat about the incident and what the aftermath has been like for him. My turns out Kyle is a good sport and he was up for it. Now because the internet is a vast wasteland heavily populated by cowards hiding behind their usernames to spread unnecessary rage throughout the world in the hopes of feeling better about themselves, I should make it clear that I don't condone violence and Kyle was not charged with any kind of assault. Let's have a listen. Hey Kyle, welcome to the show. Hey, come on. Oh, I'm pretty good. How are you doing? Oh, you know, I still can't drink at the pub. So very nice. Yes, yes. Well, we're going to get into that. I talk about a lot of people who've gone viral, but I don't actually get a chance to talk to them usually. So I'm really glad that you're coming on the show. Thanks so much for that. Oh, it's all good. So you have a TikTok account at Kyle the Cowboy Ferguson. Tell us a little bit about that, please. I recently started making TikToks just from the front of it, really. Yeah, just blew up and then I started making videos and then she just went viral for a bit. Yeah, so did you go viral before the incident of which we will speak or was that being the main one? No, that's the one is really blinded up. That's the one who's got the most views and the most people ever had me. Last year you posted a video about being banned from every alcohol serving establishment in Western Australia. Yeah. How many views did that rack up your income? Well, when I last looked at it before it got delayed from year-tube itself, I mean TikTok itself, it had about 800,000, 900,000. Wow. Were you surprised by that? Honestly, yeah. Well, I just I think it'd be funny. I've never got the being, never seen the being before, never heard of anyone else having it. And I was so outweighed it and yeah, it just blew off like a square rocket. So can you tell the listeners a bit about what the incident was that caused you to be banned from everywhere that sells alcohol in WA, including restaurants, casinos and bottle shops? I didn't realise it was bottle shops too, because I was like, ah, screw it. He can describe something and drink somewhere else. But bottle shops as well, dude. Ah, bottle shops being on, on basely being pretty much, I kind of go to a rodeo without getting asked if I'm drinking or not. So I can't go to a rodeo, burning out comp, pretty much any entertainment venue that serves the alcohol on all that to go. Oh, and you struck me as someone who quite likes the rodeo when a burn out comp? Oh, yeah. Well, I'm technically sitting in a skid car right now talking to the interview. So yeah, pretty much. So tell us about what happened that caused you to get banned. Well, we went out that night as one of my friends birthday's in his, is an Irish below his backpacker. So we're going out. We've had three drinks at one pub, and as I've walked into this place, my day had a chipping it at the time, so that'd be like, fuck off cracking it. Yeah, ID. So your ID looked like, didn't look right. Didn't look right. OK. Because I'm from New South Wales originally, and my all my days are still near South Wales, it's quite hard when you're in WA to get that fixed. So I just left it for a while. It always worked. I've normally been out loud into pretty much any club I've got into. And the bounces looked at it, pulled me off to the side. He said, chat to me. Then he starts harken up and goes, you need to fuck off. When I said, mate, look, just give me back me wallet and ID, and I'll be happy, and I'll just leave you alone. Sorry. He yeats it across the road and says, what's going to do about it? And the most reasonable thought of it was to punch him in the face. Uh-oh. Because I didn't like it. I didn't like him fucking tucking me wallet across the road, because I thought of it as a bit rude. And as I wanted to hit him, 10 blocks, it punched on with me. I've just been knocked out once. I've got back up the go again. I get pushed over to the side of the road where the security there have tried to chuck me into a moving vehicle. And after that, I was slammed to the ground until the cops were there, and I went to the cop shop. I spent about 20 minutes in the cop shop, and they sent me off to hospital with bleeding coming out of the year. Oh. And fractures. Yeah. Dude, OK. That's not something that I read about when I was researching this. That's pretty bloody intense. No. I got to ask, did you connect with the bouncer? Well, I did say on the news that I didn't, but yeah, I did connect with him. I just wanted to make sure that I wouldn't get any more trouble during the court dates. Yeah, OK. So do you have any regrets about that at this point? I look hard to regret, and I'll not walk it away. I'd still be allowed to drink. I do still drink. It's easy to drink. Dance right? But yeah, I just missed going to the pubs, to be honest. The atmosphere of it all. And now, that tick-tock that you made that went viral, talking about this experience, and you reading out the notice you received about how you'd been banned from all the pubs and just anywhere that sells alcohol. That's been taken down now. Why is that? I got taken down originally after I was posted up. The reason for that is, is tick-tock decision not mine. I ought to left it up there, because it's pretty funny. But tick-tock took it down for something of personal issues and bullying, which is a normal thing for tick-tock at this point in time. Oh, OK. You see a trend in-- Yeah. Because I do-- I run Facebook groups, and there's a lot of-- just really ridiculous stuff where they say that you're-- I don't know, promoting hate speech. And it's like a picture of a cat. Yeah. Yeah, right? OK. Is that tick-tock's version is the bullying stuff? Yeah, I guess so, but I wasn't bullying anyone. I was just bullying myself, basically. Yeah, because I saw that. You were kind of just going what the fucking laughing about, how intense it was to be someone who's been kicked out of fucking everywhere. Yeah, well, I've never signed up before. more law phenomenally 20s. So someone older than me could have had this before me or something like that, but I just found it pretty funny. Yeah, I read that there's like 145 people who had it last year, but you're the only one that's really kind of made the news for it. Yeah, or at least got on my radar. And so you were actually charged with failing to leave a premises and fighting in public. So are those charges still pending? No, I was going to spend conviction on it. Thank you to my lawyers, shout to those folks. They're really good people. We tried to get CCTV from the night, from the night's pubs, receptive so it could show them what they actually did before the cops rocked up. But all that footage was deleted before we could get it into the courtroom. Oh, that's a little bit suspicious. Yeah, that's what I fought to, but you know, apparently they never keep recordings of the night's. Oh, okay. I know some places they like rerecord over them, but it's generally like several days later. Yeah, it took me three to four months to try and get the video footage. And then there was none. Okay, no, that does make sense actually. Yeah. You posted another TikTok later on about how you've copped a bunch of shit from people since going viral. And you even got death threats. Like what the fuck man? What were people saying to you? Well, I got I got death threats from bar staff, um, station, heans, farmers. I had this one big bloke, jock McQueen. There's no hate to that bloke. To be honest, I watch these videos all the time. He's always been a good influence under my book. He just told me I shouldn't have said the shit I said. Other stuff like that. It's just bullshit to be honest. I didn't like the death threats come on from it. I thought it was just a bit petty. I'm just only 20. People got to remember I'm a young gun. So we are pretty stupid. Yeah. You know, I get it. But, um, I don't recall you actually saying anything really bad in that video. What were they objecting to you? Oh, apparently I, I've made a fool with the farming community in general. And this is what everyone thinks that farmers now look like. Oh, I never stated to channel seven or channel 10 or channel nine that I wasn't farmer. Um, I'm actually a station in for cattle stations. Yeah. So I'm just a shit kicker on the end of the list. Oh, okay. But you bought their all the the entire industry into disrepute, huh? Yeah. Apparently so. Well, that makes you pretty important, I guess. Oh, apparently so. I just want to get back into station work. I haven't done station work now for a maybe out of year. And it's quite sad actually that I can't go back to the job I really love to do, which is working with cattle and farming because of a stupid thing I said over the news, which I don't regret because I've got to see some of the most famous people I've ever known in my life. I thought I was going to say so it's a mixed bag. This going viral thing, huh? Yeah, there's there's a downside and upside to everything. There's consequences for reactions and well, I don't know. I don't know how long it'll take me to get back onto the station, but there's a lot of people out there telling me if I ever rocked up to work on their station that they'll shoot me. What the fuck? See, that seems like a bit of an overreaction maybe. Maybe, but because I did say I most probably fucked the commissioners daughter on more of TV, that's a thing. Okay, see, I thought you were joking and saying the way people were reacting, it's as though you'd done that, not that you'd actually done that. Well, yeah. Did you say that you'd actually done that? Because all right, so all right, this is starting to make a little bit more sense now. Yeah, I did say that. Oh, okay. And do you regret saying that maybe? That, yeah, I, I, I, I was in regret saying that that's so sure. If you hadn't said that, do you reckon you'd be copying all this shit and you would have been as like fired and stuff? Um, I know really to be honest, I can't say for everyone out there, there's always people that have like, there's the shit kind of people on the internet that agree with me, think I'm a legend for it, but there's also a ton of other people that want me dead. So it's a mixed spray, it's a mixed spray. And even if I did say that didn't say that, there would still be people out there hating me. How do you keep going doing like, because I get a decent amount of hate, nothing like that. Although I have been told that I deserve to have my voice blocks removed because someone didn't like an episode of my other podcast, which I thought was like, mate, maybe just don't listen to it. You know, like maybe just turn it off. Um, so sorry, I've lost my fucking point now. Oh yeah, so in terms of like getting all that hate and that sort of thing, like how do you deal with that and keep posting videos and things and keep having what seems like a pretty positive attitude? It doesn't put you off or make you like worried that someone's going to actually do something. Do something. Um, not really. Hey, what, where I live now, and we've got pro bars at the front door. Honestly, I'm not scared of people. Like if they try and dox me on that spine, they can come to my house. Let's just say they won't, they won't leave peacefully. They'll leave in the back of a cop car. Okay. I thought you were going to go somewhere else with that, but no, all right. That's no, no, no, no. I can't own legally owned guns anymore. To some not in doubt a new South Wales. So yeah, even if I had guns, I wouldn't go that far to point when someone to tell me to get off the property. Um, and the day I'm actually a nice person when, like, all my mates and stuff in real life, they love, we all love each other and shit, what, but just people take it to set too far. Sometimes, I don't know, I don't know, like that. They hate to get to me, really? Yeah. Well, that's, you know, good on you because there's so much of it out there. So much of it. I'm so what do you folks reckon about all of this? You want to start off with that or mom? I don't know. Do they feel differently? Is one of them a fan and one of them's like, well, you shouldn't have done that. The other ones like, do it again. I don't know. Do they, do they feel similarly? Oh, well, it's, do you know, mom, mom thinks I'm a fucking title, uh, fucking for it. I remember the day she saw me on the news, she'd ring me up and goes, what the fuck call? What are you doing on that? You're an idiot. You need to get that taken down. I'm like, it's just streamed over to 24 million people in Australia. How am I supposed to get them to take it down off the news? Yeah, I don't think they'd, uh, they'd be into that. And dad drives in estate trucks. He drives a wicked machine sport. Oh, game of call a couple of months ago. We don't speak much. And he said, oh, I saw you on the news. A couple of months back. Yeah, what did you think of me? And guys, you're a fucking legend for it. But you're also a dumb con. That's his backwards, too. Oh, wow, that might be the easiest thing I've ever heard. Yeah. Okay. So now, um, what do you do for fun now that you're not allowed to go where most people your age would go on, you know, Friday Saturday nights and stuff like that? Oh, I never really went to the club as beforehand. Anyways, I'm more of a pub person. Yeah, but you can't go to them either, can you? Oh, legally, legally, yes. Uh, legally, no, I can't go, but illegally, they can't stop me. They'll have to post my face all over every pub and club in the state of WA, which they haven't yet. Yeah. I've been to, yet. I've been to more borderless and alcohol establishments here since I've been banned than I was without the ban. Okay. That hasn't stopped me at all. Uh, and you haven't had to like, you know, dress up like a, a six-year-old man with like a big, bushy, like blonde wig or something and disguise yourself. No, I remember we had a Christmas party in Northbridge near where the incident actually happened. And I walked in with my mate and he, me and him are both stationers and it's just for a Christmas party. So we've gone in the seckeys, I looked at me and go, and I knew the bloat that's got been off the news and I was like, yeah, I am like, mate, we honestly don't care. Go in and enjoy yourself. Have a good night, man. Are you worried that telling me that? Like, if I put that out there, are you worried that that might come back and bite you in the ass though? Not really, because he hasn't been approved, but well, because he's okay. So you could say I was just lying to seem cool. Yeah. Okay. All right. But no, I would never, I would never dog those seckeys names in or the name of the pub. But yeah, I've been to multiple there. There doesn't stop me. Really. It's just a made up law, I think. And I'm just for the listeners, Seki, you mean like guys working security or people working security, yeah? Yeah. Security or events manager, what are they, they're called? What guy go by Seki? Because that's what dad used to call him. Okay. What are you reckon in terms of the good and the bad and everything that's happened since he went viral? Do you think it's more positive or negative? Look, I think it's both power and power with it. I've got to meet Isaac Butterfield. I've got to me. Other people as well, people have come out out of the streets to shape me here, but also on the downside is I've been yelled at in the street for it. So I'd say it's been power on power with each other, but I honestly wouldn't let it keep me down. That's a good attitude to have. Anything else you want to talk about? Oh, well, we can talk about the nights. Yeah, yeah, this pub thing's just been weird and the boys have always had me back for it, especially share it out to one of my mates, fucking KPM for a day, talent, he's he had a breezy, he's a man, come, they've shared me up, me a great job if I want to okay up there in Brisbane. Yeah, I've been offered a lot of jobs actually just because of it, but not any that I wanted to do in law freely like farming and stuff like that. That's something I can't get back into for a while because most of the farm is hate. Even in other states, like it's really it's like the whole country, all the farmers have joined together in their hatred of you. Well, that's what people say. Oh, you know, what if you bring in people together, Kyle? I just want to work back on a farm again. So how are you going to do that? Like, do you have a conviction? Are you able to, is that going to affect if you want to go overseas? Oh, no, so what happened was a suspension conviction. So that means the only records ever come up is for court only. Okay. And I had to pay a $1,344 for those about it. Okay. So what are you planning on doing doing next? Um, particularly in wanting to get back into farm work pretty sad that you're not able to do that right now. Since you have such a passion for it. Oh, love it. It's, it's a great gig. What made them a voice you were thinking is we're going to start more getting into YouTube? Ah, so we built, we've got ski cars, go all here. We've got about, we've got this one, which is a VX on set, and then we got a AU, a VN and a row over an outcar. All we're thinking was just getting start getting into YouTube, just building cars. Okay. That sounds like a good plan. Yeah. Well, we figured out if we can make the money from it, we can buy our own farm. And then tell everyone else to get fucked. That is the perfect note to end the interview on. Thank you so much for coming on the show. No, you're all good. To finish up, I have a few punchline crimes for you. These are short cases that sound more like jokes than something that really happened. African grape harrots love talking and are renowned for their ability to mimic people's speech, which has got a mouthy bird named Rocco in trouble a few times now. Rocco used to live at the National Animal Welfare Trust Sanctuary in Berkshire until his potty mouth got him kicked out. The staff there were worried that his swearing might upset visitors to the sanctuary. But if you're anything like me, it would have been an attraction, not a drawback. And in Rocco's defence, he was only repeating words he'd heard. I mean, maybe if members of staff were secretly going around talking about what arseholes and fuckheads people were, is it any wonder that Rocco followed suit? I'm sensing a cover up here. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that the staff were in fact swearing about people. Rocco could have picked up that language somewhere else. No lawsuits, please. A kind employee of the sanctuary named Marion brought Rocco home to live with her in Oxfordshire. Once there, he struck up a friendship with the voice activated personal assistant Alexa. Not only would she engage in conversations with Rocco, but she'd also play the music he requested. Apparently, his favourite band is Kings of Leon. Marion told the Daily Mail, "Oh, they chat away to each other all day. Often I come in and there's music playing." But there's a bird and robot friendship has a downside. Possibly just trying to tell Alexa about his favourite things, Rocco ended up ordering a bunch of stuff from Amazon, including watermelons, raisins, broccoli and ice cream, as well as a light bulb and a kite. Maybe he likes doing science experiments as well as eating. Marion told the media how surprised she was when he first did this and said, "I have to check the shopping list when I come in from work and cancel all the items he's ordered." Despite his shopper-holic tendencies and penchant for credit card fraud, Marion Reckon's Rocco is a lovely boy. She said, "Oh, I've come home before and he has romantic music playing. He loves to dance and has the sweetest personality." "Oh, come on, Marion. Let the sweet, sweary little fucker have his watermelons." "Oh, 40, you clear the termination of the following? Yes, it'll 1, 3, 9." The owner of Stargate Pizza in Delaware was shutting up shop for the night at around 10.30 p.m. on July 10, 2020. As he was locking up the business with a piping hot pizza in one hand to take home, and then wielded a machete at him and demanded money. The shop owner told the armed thief that he didn't have any money on him, but that didn't deter the bad guy. So the owner threw the pizza at him. You'd think in a bizara game of Roxie's paper like this that machete would be pizza, but that just wasn't the case. The would-be robber turned tail and ran from the scene before jumping into a getaway car and speeding off into the night. It's just like the old saying goes. Don't bring a machete to a pizza fight. Palawan in the Philippines is a popular tourist destination due to its white sandy beaches, clear blue waters, and stunning array of marine life. It also seems to be the best place in the whole world to get arrested. In April last year, Palawan's most-wanted man, Alan Dillos Angeles, was apprehended by the Altavus Municipal Police. He'd been on the run since 1996 after being charged with a legal possession of firearms and attempted murder. Alan, who was an abdon his 45th birthday, didn't resist arrest and immediately confessed to the crimes. I'm not sure if it was because Alan was such a big fish, so compliant, or if they do this for everyone, but once the police discovered it was his birthday, they went out of their way to make his day special for him. Now they didn't go so far as to release him with our charge, but they did surprise him with a birthday cake. It was a big fancy chocolate cake with happy 45th birthday Alan from Altavus Municipal Police written on it in icing. The officer in charge of the Altavus Municipal Police Station told the manila bulletin. We had no idea that it was his birthday. After we learned that it was his birthday, we chipped in some money to buy a cake for him. We gave it to him and he was very thankful. The cake was shared here in celebration of his birthday. So yeah, don't commit a crime and get arrested on your birthday, but if you do commit a crime and get arrested on your birthday, make sure you do it in Paloan. This brings me to the end of the episode. Thanks for listening. Make sure you subscribe if you want to stay up to date with all future episodes. And if you dug what you heard, please leave a review. If you'd like to support this independent as fuck podcast, head on over to patreon.com/worldsdommascriminals. All levels get access to monthly bonus episodes and add free episodes and higher levels also receive some merch. I'd like to thank Tracy Garner and Fairview Princess Kitty for coming on board as patrons this month. Thanks so much for your support. If you're up for some more dumb criminals action in your life, you could follow me on Twitter @wdcriminalspod and Instagram @worldsdommascriminalspodcast. 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