Fans Christened Perth’s $1.6B Optus Stadium With Beers Snakes & A Bare Ass

There’s something very satisfying and deeply Australian about one of the first things to grace the playing surface at Perth’s brand new, $1.6billion Optus Stadium being a random punter’s bare ass.

Australia and England contested yesterday’s fifth and final One Day International cricket match at the new 60,000 seat stadium in the heart of Perth, marking the first event to be held at the new venue.

While fan response on an overall level was generally very positive, the more visceral stamps of approval came from punters with the guts – or perhaps the balls – to show the watching world just how much they were having.

Case in point, local footballer Ben Jenkins, who etched his name into the annals of Perth history by becoming the first person to streak across the billion-dollar surface.

The $5,000 fine and three-year Cricket Australia ban leveled at the bloke is a small price to pay for a spot in the history books, we’d wager.

But not everyone can get their kit off for the country and bare all on the national stage. So instead, punters dotted around the freshly completed grandstands broke in the never-before-sat-in seats by hoisting up hefty beer snakes. Each one larger than the last, and each new one being created as soon as the old ones were confiscated by fun-hating security guards.

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Sure, elected public officials and dignitaries might’ve had an “official” christening ceremony, but you and I know that a stadium truly isn’t a stadium until the purifying wash of stale piss hits the concrete floors of the stands.

And to that end, the glorious new Optus Stadium is now well and truly broken in.

Bless.

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