There are two sides to every story, but it’s kind of hard to take an Aussie man’s recent abuse allegations at face value when Australian authorities say he was drunk and his quickly circulating post from Snapchat shows him bragging about drug smuggling.
A Facebook status posted by Matt Akker went viral last week, when the 21-year-old Perth man said he was violently detained upon arrival last Thursday night at Ngurah Rai Airport for over 10 hours.
“I was shoved to the ground and assaulted by a group of men that work for the airport,” Akker’s status reads.
“They took turn kicking the shit out of me then sticky tapped (sic) my hands tightly behind my back and my legs together then continued to kick into me.”
Perhaps the scariest part of Akker’s status though was the death threats: “They were talking about how easily they could kill me.”
However, Balinese Police told Nine News that they had no reports of an Australian man being detained, while Australian authorities said Akker was drunk and disorderly.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) told Akker’s family that the apprentice tattoo artist was drunk on the flight to Bali and he was belligerent to staff when pulled aside at Bali Airport, according to 7 News.
DFAT said Akker was even still too intoxicated to fly back the next morning to Australia.
Akker has denied he was drunk: “I had a couple of drinks before at the bar, but like not even to the level of drunk,” he told reporters.
But his credibility sure is questionable after he snapped “Guess who got acid past customs”.
Kids, this is certainly a valuable lesson that what you post to social media can come right back to haunt you.
Akker has already been returned back to Perth.
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