![]() ![]() They were trying to put handcuffs on me, pulling my arm behind my back, I just thought I would say something that would distract them,” he said. ![]() “They dragged me out of the restaurant and I just carried on. “They’re easy to escape from…I’ve done it a couple of times before. ![]() “I tried to pretend to be a lunatic to get to a lunatic asylum because often in the past, back in those days I was a bit wild, and I thought maybe I just carry on the way I carry on and they might send me to a lunatic asylum. I knew the cops hated me so I thought they might have tried to grab me for something I did not do. “They ran in and arrested me and that’s what you saw on the video. “They thought I was him… which I’m obviously not. Karlson recently reminiscing of his infamous arrest to LADbible: “They thought I was some international criminal, a Hungarian who used to rob restaurants,” he said. Fine tannins that put the wine in a gentle headlock with a long finish.” The idea’s the brainchild of alcohol delivery service Crowbar Sydney who said on its website: “This succulent Victorian Pinot is made with freshness as the main focus, bright red fruits that know their Judo well. A bottle will cost you $30, while a case retails for $320. However, unlike a free succulent Chinese meal, a bottle of Karlson’s plonk doesn’t come cheap. He followed it up with some now-iconic lines like “Get your hands off my penis”, “What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal”, “Ah yes, I see that you know your judo well and ‘Ta-ta, and farewell”.įor the record, Karlson was later released without charge in a case of mistaken identity.Īnd three decades on, Karlson’s memorable performance has seen him lend his name to a new Aussie pinot noir called “Get Your Hands Off My Pinot”. a skillfully made heist picture (based on a novel by Jack Finney) about college students who try to rob a Reno nightclub. If you have no idea what B&T is talking about, you’ll need to watch the glorioulsy funny video (below) of a Sydney man called Jack Karlson who was hauled out of a local Chinese restaurant 30 years ago for allegedly repeatedly doing runners without paying the bill.Īs the cops tried to drag him into a police vehicle, Karlson delivered – among a string of memorable one-liners – his now famous “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!” The result is an extraordinary, deeply revealing portrait of Australian crime from the 60s to the 2010s – a portrait of carnage.We’ve had Kylie Minogue and even Snoop Dogg launch their own wines in recent weeks and now the bloke behind the infamously famous ‘Democracy Manifest’ YouTube clip has put his name to a bottle of Aussie pinot noir. The 78-year-old, who now lives in regional Queensland, told us that it was a simple case of mistaken identity. Zelig-like, Karlson had been in the background of many of the most notorious incidents in late-twentieth century Australian crime: co-author of infamous prison-playwright Jim McNeil early collaborator of Charles Billich, one of Australia’s most commercially successful artists associate of hitman Christopher Dale Flannery (Mr Rent-a-Kill).īut most shockingly of all, Karlson’s life story turned out to be the way into cracking the mystery behind a number of unsolved murders, by two serial killers. The bloke's name is actually Jack Karlson. But during their conversations over the following months, a more complex and darker picture than that of the baritone larrikin began to emerge. When someone named Jack Karlson called Mark Dapin out of the blue, though, Dapin hadn’t heard of him. The Guardian has called it ‘perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the last 10 years’. Whether you know it as the ‘succulent Chinese meal’ video (as it appears on T-shirts) or ‘democracy manifest’ (as it’s taught in schools), chances are you’re one of the millions of Australians who’ve seen Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1990. An extraordinary true crime cult classic in the making. But when out of the blue this Falstaff figure called author Mark Dapin thirty years later, it emerged his story went to the heart of the Australian underworld over decades, connecting a celebrated prison playwright, Mr Rent-a-Kill, and two uncaught serial killers. Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. ![]()
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