Revellers reveal ability to stay cool

Tue, August 02 2011

Beer, champers and some 18,000 revellers spent the better part of the day in a bubbly embrace that normally spells at least a bit of trouble or some partial nudity and dubious dancing.

But authorities yesterday were saying crowd behaviour on Darwin Cup day was "very good". There was nary a boob nor bum to be seen.

Darwin Watch Commander Bob Harrison said 10 people had to be taken into protective custody. "I think it was a very successful day," he said. "For the amount of people there - and it was very warm today, which is conducive to drinking more alcohol - I think they were very well behaved."

He said 14 police officers and a mobile police station were placed at the event to support race security staff.

St John Ambulance deputy operations director Craig Garraway said some of the biggest jobs of the day for the crew there involved blisters and Band-Aids. "There was just the normal boxes of Band-Aids for the girls for their blisters on backs of their heels," he said. "And people who were getting hot and bothered, and a bit light-headed. It was all quite fine."

The weather bureau said Darwin's maximum afternoon temperature yesterday was 32.4C and humidity was 53 percent.

Story courtesy of NT News