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Chaser 11 held over motorcade stunt

Eleven members of The Chaser team have been detained after conducting a fake motorcade through the city this morning.

Chas Licciardello and Chaser executive producer Julian Morrow are in custody at Surry Hills police station, along with program colleagues, after being arrested for breaching the APEC restricted zone.

Chaser team member Chris Taylor told smh.com.au that the motorcade comprised "three cars, a couple of motorbikes, and a lot of crew".

"It was a motorcade trying to get into the exclusion zone," he said.

The motorcade is understood to have passed through at least one police checkpoint in the declared zone.

It is believed police pulled the vehicles over near the corner of Bridge and Macquarie streets, after Licciardello emerged from one of the cars dressed as Osama Bin Laden.

Chaser crew members were initially detained in their cars while "police on the ground'' waited for special units to arrive, Taylor said.

Riot squad police formed a cordon around a Corrective Services truck where Morrow, Licciardello and about ten crew and extras were detained.

The Chaser convoy had been dressed up to look like an official Canadian motorcade, with Canadian flags attached to the cars and "Canada'' signs visible in the front windscreen.

"No particular reason we chose Canada," said Taylor. "We just thought they'd be a country who the cops wouldn't scrutinise too closely, and who feasibly would only have three cars in their motorcade - as opposed to the 20 or so gas guzzlers that Bush has brought with him."

The vehicles in the motorcade were hired - two were black "SUVs" imported from the US, and the other was a regular car.

Police superintendent Ken McKay confirmed the pair had been arrested for breaching the restricted zone.

The arrests had been made using new powers available under the APEC Act, he said.

Police Media were preparing a statement on the incident.

Earlier this morning, US President George Bush's motorcade swept through the city to Darling Harbour.

The NSW Minister for Transport, John Watkins, warned Sydneysiders that most of the disruptions due to motorcades were yet to come.

"Between 3pm and 7.30pm today, there will be 92 motorcade movements around the city," he said.

Between 4pm and 7.30pm there would be motorcades from the airport for delegations from Canada, Vietnam and the director-general of APEC.

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LMFAO!!!

They just on inthemix.com.au trying to recruit EDM fans to go into supre and **** them to start a dance party to the tracks being played instore


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Chaser - APEC Security

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These guys are fantastic, always sticking it to the man.

More great ABC comedy, Summer Heights High", a spinoff from "we Can Be Heroes" - watch it.

Chris Lilley = Genius

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It was just brilliant.

Personally I don't see why they should be fined for the security forces incompetance.

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hahaha B-E-A-UTIFULL... i luv them wat a bunch of rebels... wat heroes... but how mad would it be if they actually got to the president's hotel lol

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According to the reporter they got within 10m

Also, they have all been released with no charges - With all their footage!!

This Wednesday 9pm - a must not miss show!!!

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I also heard something about them NOT going any further for fear that the US secret service would potentially gun them down!

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And it looks like they pushed their luck again

A fake motorcade however it was like card board box's made to look like cars...

Police were not happy, questioned, not arrested.....

Cant wait till next week :)

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heard throughout the day on the radio and in the news that snipers could have shot em down they were bailed out and they might still be up for a possible 6 months in jail...so they exactly didnt get off scott free.

helluva stunt.. but will not be suprised if they put them in jail just to prove a point, especially coz they made the cops look bad. all the money spent on security would be a joke if someone wasnt sentenced for something.

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heard throughout the day on the radio and in the news that snipers could have shot em down they were bailed out and they might still be up for a possible 6 months in jail...so they exactly didnt get off scott free.

helluva stunt.. but will not be suprised if they put them in jail just to prove a point, especially coz they made the cops look bad. all the money spent on security would be a joke if someone wasnt sentenced for something.

They seem to keep going irregardless of what happens to them lol.

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They wont get put away. Not even for a night.

Awesome stunt. The thing i dont understand is that the cops must have known that the chaser would do something. why on earth werent they ready for it? Did anyone else see the footage of what their 'security' passes had on them??

It had their full names, the chasers war logo, and APEC symbol with JOKE written underneath it, and their security classification was "Insecurity"

The cops are dumb. Simple as that.

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The cop's knew it was coming

Most of the media have media pass's granting them access to the green zone.... They deemed them to not be media!!

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