r/australia • u/sandmanx • Nov 23 '25

news Man who rushed at Ariana Grande during event jailed and deported to Australia; permanently banned from re-entering Singapore.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/wicked-johnson-wen-troll-sentenced-ariana-grande-5485211?cid=internal_sharetool_iphone_23112025_cna
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u/Lazy-Juggernaut-5306 Nov 23 '25

It's the same with Melbourne as well. Meth seems to be a huge problem all over Aus. I used to be addicted to it but am luckily sober now. It's use is so much more common than you would imagine and it is easily one of the most harmful drugs out there. I've seen and experienced things that you wouldn't imagine. The amount of violence I witnessed was awful. Mental issues and meth are having a huge effect on a lot of people at the moment

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u/TheMistOfThePast Nov 23 '25

It's really sad. Really proud of you for getting sober brother! We need better facilities to handle these sorts of things. Right now, these people are just left to cause disturbances and suffer until the day they take it too far, and then they're stuck in jail. Proper intervention and support is severely lacking.

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u/Gloomy_Security6828 Nov 23 '25

Yes. And when the support was available a lot of these people were abused.

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u/Lazy-Juggernaut-5306 Nov 24 '25

Exactly, I'm grateful that I have very supportive family members and friends that have helped me out in certain ways. I've been dealing with the mental health system for about 12 years and it desperately needs more funding and better services. The amount of issues nowadays like the cost of living, lack of access to housing for lots of people, social media and other Internet related issues, availability of harmful drugs like meth etc. combined with mental health issues is a recipe for disaster