A friend once asked two PSO fellas if he could use the station toilet, we were on the last train back from Belgrave after a gig (a few beers where had) it was still forty minutes or so back to melb on the connecting train. They refused him quiet aggresively, toilet was closed and it was understandable but the aggression.. He left the train station and went over the road and had a sneaky piss in a park. They refused to allow him back into the station and lots of yelling and voilent threats ensued. None of us where drunk and or disorderly and he had a valid ticket. We chose to leave the station with our mate and spent our collective earning of the night on an our cab ride back to melb. This was very early on in the PSO timeline.
Not long after that I watched a group beat down on some school kids at prahran station about 5.30 in the afternoon. Never been too keen on them since then.
That being said, about 5 years ago a mate popped out the front of the house to take a phone call whilst we where at his house for his birthday, sitting on the fence having a smoke, no alcohol on him. Police pulled over, picked him up for being drunk on the street and drove him round in the back of the wagon for four hours to 'sober up' then dropped him back outside the house. Worst part was they confiscated his phone and turned it off, we spent four hours freaking out trying to work out where he had gone.
I was mugged once just outside a train station, PSO 's stood on the platform and watched.. lost a backpack and 80 bucks.
None of this is particularly relevant to covid but it was fun to relive typing it all out.