Source:
The National

A FIGHT in Lae yesterday morning, apparently started by a dog, between employees of two major companies, has left several people injured and thousands of kina in damages to properties.
Two expatriates were hospitalised at the Tusa Private Hospital while several Papua New Guineans were treated for injuries at Angau Memorial Hospital.
Heavily armed police were deployed at mid-morning yesterday to keep order.
Discussions were also being held between the managements of the two companies to resolve the problem.
The fight between employees of Frabelle and Frescomar fish companies and Lae Builders and Contractors started on Monday afternoon.
The dog, ominously named Trouble, was owned by the squatter who also owns a small stevedoring company.An employee of one of the fish companies, who had decided to take a short cut to work from The Esplanade at the end of the old Lae airport through a squatters home was bitten by a dog, police said.
When the dog-bite victim arrived at work bleeding, his colleagues asked where he was bitten by the dog and he led them to the dog owners house, which was in between Lae Builders and Frescomar near the Lae Port.
Apparently, there were no discussions.
A fight broke out in which properties belonging to employees of Lae Builders and Contractors at Speybank Street, Milfordhaven, were destroyed.
After learning yesterday morning that their properties, worth thousands of kina were destroyed the previous evening, the LBC workers retaliated.
They smashed two pump boats (Melani 9 and Melani 21) to pieces using a backhoe and destroyed the glasses of eight others, witnesses said.
According to the chairman of the Morobe Fishermen Cooperative Paul Kega, the boats were valued at K50,000 each.
They were owned by the fishermen from Bosadi village in Morobe patrol post and Mange in Finschhafen.
The Frabelle and Freshcomar employees then attacked the LBC employees to stop them from further attacks when they shot the operator of the backhoe with a slingshot and burnt the equipment down.

This has to be the most ridicules thing i have heared
so far. Score one for the dog population.

not only ridicluous but if it weren't true it would be halirious.

so let me get this staight:

the trouble started when a dog got named Trouble and who caused the trouble that started the fight?...or even the trouble started when the word rouble was invented...?

i know people got hurt and valuable property damaged but you just can't
help that amused grin...

PNG...we kill each other over a TV show (state of origin rugby), start tribal wars over sports shoes and now this....there no more surprises
to look forward to now!

i am soo disgusted to read such things on the news.Why are these people not using their God given brains to solve such a problem?What is our brain for if not for such use?...this is the typical attitude we all need to change..we are sopose to be moving as a country,not backwards..
As fo the two big companies,please..its even more shamefull to hear of such!?!
let us all swallow our prides and help eachother..the whole thing wud not hev started if the guy who was first bitten was taken to the hospital...

WE R NOT DOGS,WE R HUMANS, SO LETS PUT OUR BRAINS TO USE..!!

Longlong blo longlong stret!!!

"As fo the two big companies,please..its even more shamefull to hear of such"

it's not the companies that are fighting, it's the people. whether it was employees of 2 big companies or 2 trade stores doesn't make it any different.
as they said in the story, the GM of LBC tried to step in and got a rock in the face for his trouble. just shows that there's no civility in dealing with png'ns... still savage neanderthals. animals.

r u serious?

now dat is wat i call Lae city, very uncivilised kanakas just like their governor wenge.

WTF!!!!! Oiyooo... Yusim het!!! pls yumi no stap lo last century ya!