Australian Olympic Swimmers Criticized for Posting Stupid Gun Facebook Photo

Australian Olympic Swimmers Criticized for Posting Stupid Gun Facebook Photo

What were they thinking?  Two athletes who are members of the Australian Olympic swim team are under hot controversies for posing with three high-powered guns and posting the photo on Facebook.

Swimming Australia demanded Kenrick Monk take down the picture of him and Nick D'Arcy in a California gun shop. 

In the picture, Monk held pump action shotguns which are eerily similar to those used in the Port Arthur massacre of 1996, a shooting incident which still stands as one of Australia's deadliest murders. D'Arcy, on the other hand, held a semi-automatic pistol.

The two young men are infamous of some stupid actions in the past. D'Arcy was involved in a brawl on the night the 2008 Australian Olympic team was announced and broke the nose, jaw, eye socket and cheekbone of a teammate. He was kicked out from the team but surprisingly avoided jail for the incident.

The lawyer of the man he punched was surprised at D'Arcy's current brush with infamy. "I can't believe it," Sam Macedone said.  "Despite all the criticism, he still does things that are stupid."

Last September, Monk broke his elbow and blamed it on a hit-and-run driver. Four days after filing a police report, he confessed that he had actually fallen off his skateboard. Police didn't charge Monk, calling him a "wannabe B-grade celebrity athlete."  That was a strange reaction of any policeman.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Sunday June 10 2012, 10:23 AM EST. Ref: CNN. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0