A pub meal in WA escalated into a gunfight on Friday, in surely one of the greatest incidents of over-reacting ever.
The altercation occurred in Gibson, south-west WA, and began when a kitchen mishap resulted in customers and the owners getting into a heated argument.
A meal was allegedly sent to the wrong table.
Things then went to the next level when the groups agreed to “take it outside”- determining to meet and shoot the breeze with one another to sort things out.
“There were more arguments, which then ended up on social media that were basically, ‘Let’s meet at a pre-determined spot and we can sort this out’,” said police Sergeant Todd Pender.
The Gibson Soak Motel played host to the altercation
ABC reports that the two parties both grabbed rifles and shotguns and had a shootout at a nearby farm.
Another fight then broke out, but no-one was harmed by any firearms.
The entire episode ironically occurred in the Gibson Soak Motel, a pub which just weeks earlier had been used as a set for a bar fight in the theatrical adaptation of Tim Winton’s Dirt Music novel.
The filming of the fake fight had included dozens of local extras, something which potentially may have made the two families more…firey than usual.
Dirt Music by Tim Winton takes inspiration from the WA Coast
Filming had been occurring at the local beaches around the Gibson area- done in accordance with the West Australian coastal setting of Winton’s work.
Two men have been charged with going armed while intoxicated and discharging a firearm.
