Video Related To: Bob Hawke

Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke captivates rowdy SCG outer by skolling a schooner of beer... Here at Planet SlowMo, we're not particular fans of speedy beer drinking or "larrikin" style alcohol guzzling in general -- in fact it's a bit of a scourge Down Under -- but, there are rare exceptions; like when the 82 year old former Prime Minister of Australia is strolling through the Brewongle Concourse during an Australia v India New Year's Test Match and encounters a classic group of drunk Aussie gibberers offering a spare schooner; Robert, as he was called, with the rowdy throng pressing against him, didn't hesitate to take the beer and smash it in near record time! Super stuff, that, and pretty endearing and amusing too, even to those he would be happy to see all beer advertising go the way of cigarette advertising in the 1970's -- out the door! But good onya Bob! Ya cheeky old pollie... (Additional info and reportage: Bob has a memorial housed at the Turf Tavern for downing a yard of ale (2.5 imperial pints or 1.4 litres) in just 11 seconds in 1953 while at Oxford University, a record at the time, and entered in the Guinness Book of Records.)