punks & skins & drunks & cops

There seemed to be a lot of punks around in the late 80s & early 90s, but unfortunately there was some dickhead skins too. Some skinhead were just punks who had to have a nice haircut for work, but there was some shitheads who'd go around looking for a punk to beat up, some would even drive around where they knew punks were and grab one, punch on, then use scissors to cut off the punks mohawk.
This was back in the day when the colour of your shoelaces in your Doc Martins Or GPs was important, if you wore anything but black you could be in for some nasty shit, in melbourne white shoelaces meant whitepower, yellow meant you hated asians and red meant you were a bonehead (nazi skinhead).
a punk friend of mine was waiting hanging around the flinders st station step and a bunch of skinheads started hassling him,  as they kept on kicking his shins he noticed the white shoelaces, knowing theyd keep hassling him even if he walked away he decided to fight back, so he swung around and punched the guy behind him, thinking he was aiming for the face he didnt know they guy was really tall, he throat punched the guy! The guy doubled over and his mates tried to help him, thats when my mate legged it and ran for his life, not wanting an even worse beating.

I went to a few punk parties, back then too, lots of drunken suburban punks, and despite the myth most of them had weekday jobs, mostly as tradies.
  One party i remember was pretty cool, the place was full of punks, goths & a few skinheads. There was spray paint on the walls, a pool table in the lounge room and lots of drunk people all over the place. It was opposite a park, so quite a few people would walk across there, piss, spew, whatever and come back to the party. We did the usual drunken walk to the 7-11 at 3am. It was a cool party, but from what i heard the next party was epic, maybe epic fail but still pretty funny for the 7-11 snack runners.
  The place was trashed and full of the same freaks as last time, around 2 or 3am the cops turned up and the people at the party, including the people living there, scattered like cockroaches, jumping fences, running across the park, etc. I have no idea if the cops caught anyone.

  I heard this story from some people who'd gone to the 7-11 about 5 minutes before the cops got there, when they got back the place was empty and there was police tape across the door. They snuck around the back, drank booze, ate their snacks and fell asleep in the available beds. When they woke up the next morning no one had returned yet, so as they left they grabbed some unopened booze that was left behind and made their way home.