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Mornington News 28th January 2025

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Top marks for umpire

WAYNE Hinton has been umpiring football for 45 years. His decades of hard work saw him recognised with an Order of Australia medal last weekend. The Mornington resident said the role “matures you in a big way and now that I’ve been doing it so long, I just love meeting the boys out there or the girls out on the ground. Sometimes there’s tricky situations, but at the end of the game a lot come up and say thank you.” See story page 8. Picture: Yanni

Pranksters slammed for beach stunt Brendan Rees brendan@mpnews.com.au A GROUP of reckless pranksters have faced a fierce backlash from residents and beach users after performing a dangerous stunt involving glass at Mothers Beach in Mornington. The males involved, believed to be youths and YouTube attention-seekers, reportedly placed several glass picture

frames beneath the surface of the sand about 2pm on 21 January while the beach was packed on a hot day. The News understands about five of the picture frames, which bizarrely depicted American rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, were buried at various spots along the beach near Schnapper Point with water bottles placed on top of each one in what appeared to act as “markers” before the group walked away.

A group of girls are believed to have come across one of the picture frames which was broken into shards of glass. Staff at the Mornington Boat Hire were alerted and found some of the frames buried in the sand and immediately called police. According to a social media post, a witness said the youths had told police they were filming a YouTube video by putting the glass frames beneath the sand “then grabbing it soon after”.

But the witness said there was “definitely no one watching or nearby the ones planted near us”, noting the beach was busy and that someone could have easily “cut their foot or entire leg open”. Victoria Police said officers spoke to the males at the scene but determined “no offence was detected”. “A few males had buried a whole picture frame with a water bottle as a marker on top, to film themselves

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locating it with a metal detector,” a police spokeswoman said. But locals were quick to express their outrage, with many pointing to the potential dangers. “They need to be called out. It’s not ok, it won’t be accepted on our beaches, and locals won’t stand for it,” Melanie Bird, a Mornington resident and regular beach cleaning volunteer, said. Continued page 3


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