The bloke who was so bloody mad about same-sex marriage he thought the best way to protest it was to wait behind a curtain for two hours then smash a pie into Qantas CEO Alan Joyce‘s face has been charged with common assault, damage and trespass.
.@Qantas CEO Alan Joyce had a cream pie smashed into his face at a business breakfast in the city this morning #7News @7NewsPerth pic.twitter.com/YfOiVcrdnZ
— 7 News Perth (@7NewsPerth) May 9, 2017
Tony Overheu, who inexplicably believed that a good way to make same-sex marriage opponents seem rational and sane was to lie in wait for several hours while clutching a lemon meringue pie so he could smoosh it into the face of an airline CEO, confirmed yesterday that his wife is furious. Now he’s got criminal charges too.
Overheu is a devout Christian who believes that Qantas’ corporate support for marriage equality is ‘social engineering’ – a stupid belief which was made even more stupid by the fact he tried to spread it via smashing a pie into someone’s face.
Western Australian Police did not name Overheu in their statement, but they did say that they has laid charges “against a 67-year-old man after an incident in East Perth on Tuesday, 9 May 2017”.
“The man attended a hotel located on Adelaide Terrace at around 8:15am,” police say in the media release.
“It is alleged he struck a man who was speaking at a conference in the face with a pie.”
Look, he’s not named, but I reckon that’s him.
Let that be a warning to shithead homophobes who reckon assault is a great way to spread their message.
Source: The Australian.
Photo: 7 News.
