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The truth would probably only be found in the many manuscripts of Nostradamus, but the events on Sunday the 12th of July 2009 have gone down in suburban folklore as an urban myth, a mystery and an act of war…

Who knows, what really happened but through our eyes here is a small picture…

After a niiice days trade on Saturday we frantically cleaned and organized and stripped our beloved La Marzocco 3 group Linea down, we lay everything on our shop floor for easy transport for Sunday morn’ to peace park.

Matty was directing traffic and it was quite smooth sailing in setting up, 3 hours later and with the help of Mr. Sprem, (thanks Dennis) we had everything ready to do our “thang”…

After an hour or so of solid espros’, lattes and caps that we served to a caffeine starved public who were fanatical enough to brave the rain our machine was suddenly starved, the brew pressure dropped from 9 to 6 to 3 in minutes, after a few minutes of shock we tracked the problem back to the water main…

SABOTAGE!

An act low enough to warrant a modern day stoning…

With a line 20 deep from the start, we had to momentarily stop trade, and solve the problem. It wasn’t easy as solving the issue required a new water source and bleeding of excess air in the saturated group heads and re calibration of brew head pressure, a good 30 minutes of the day lost!

We were back in business, YAY.

After speaking to the event organizer it was mentioned to us that the water fitting to the tap was tested and that it would not be possible to have broken off without human tampering ,we were shocked!

At about 12 noon i was feeling a mix of embarrassment and deja vu as a loss of brew water pressure was seen by myself, i was on shots all day, where i like to be, hehe

I ran to the water outlet and the fitting had been loosened and fallen off… A coincidence? Who knows? Other coffee people were running off mains water,why hadn’t their brass fittings failed… we were running off a new main the second time… very coincidental, or was it an act of war by rival cafe owners… no one shall know the truth…

With low morale, we were going to call it a day, but in a true test of character we decided to run of buckets off water, i suppose this way our fate would be in our own hands this way… we recovered once more, after another 30 minutes of re cutting, bleeding air and setting pressure we extracted coffee until the event finished.

We apologize to anyone who we had to refund money to, and to anyone who came up to us while our machine was down, we did our best.

And most of all thank you to our great staff J-Bomb aka BomberZ aka Josh Brown, BC aka Cole aka Brian and Belarus aka Dave, you guys were great all day especially when the shit hit the freakin’ fan - TWICE!