{"id":55032,"date":"2021-04-07T06:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55032"},"modified":"2021-04-07T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:57:12","slug":"shocking-video-of-mascots-rough-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55032","title":{"rendered":"Shocking video of mascot&#039;s rough treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" title=\"NRL\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NRL<\/a> and Stadium Australia have launched an investigation into abhorrent fan behaviour after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-2021-good-friday-south-sydney-rabbitohs-canterbury-bulldogs\/ffc6c445-2ffd-42a5-869f-d5fc1372ea56\" title=\"the Good Friday clash between the Rabbitohs and the Bulldogs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Good Friday clash between the Rabbitohs and the Bulldogs<\/a>, with South Sydney mascot Reggie the Rabbit at the centre of the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>As is customary after games, the Rabbitohs&#x27; famous mascot was greeting fans following South Sydney&#x27;s 38-0 thrashing of the Bulldogs but things turned sour when one group of fans was approached.<\/p>\n<p>In an interaction that <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/videos\/nrl\/rabbitohs-mascot-roughed-up-by-fans\/ckn70qj0j003w0gquhjz9qsmd\" title=\"was captured on video\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was captured on video<\/a> and shared with Wide World of Sports by incensed Rabbitohs fans, Reggie is roughed up and abused.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1916471f-4a31-4a5a-bf07-3a419706261d\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1916471f-4a31-4a5a-bf07-3a419706261d\" alt=\"Reggie the Rabbit as he&#x27;s getting roughed up by fans.\" data-width=\"495\" data-height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One witness told Wide World of Sports that the mascot was pushed over during the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>While the video also captures some warmer moments with the mascot, including an embrace from two fans when Reggie first approaches, there is clear audio of another fan yelling &#x27;Punch him again, punch him again,.&#x27; Reggie is then shoved backwards to the sound of raucous laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Nine News reporter Danny Weidler contacted the Rabbitohs after being shown the footage and was told the NRL and Stadium Australia were investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1379650759294287921?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1379650759294287921?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what action would be taken against the culprits if they are identified during the course of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The NRL and Stadium Australia have launched an investigation into abhorrent fan behaviour after the Good Friday clash between the Rabbitohs and the Bulldogs, with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55032\" title=\"Shocking video of mascot&#039;s rough treatment\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55034,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions\/55034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}