A crime was committed just up the road from GrodsHQ in the wee hours of this morning.

A security guard was shot in the shoulder outside an adult entertainment business in Brunswick early today.

Police said a man wearing a balaclava and armed with a small handgun shot the security guard standing outside the premises in Sydney Road at 1.30am (AEDT).

The victim, believed to be in his late 40s, was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.

The armed man, who ran off down an alley, was described as 180 centimetres tall and of medium build.

Police have released a photograph of a man wanted for questioning over the crime, standing in front of the strip club in question.

If you see this guy do not approach as he is armed and dangerous

A piece of perfect sense spoken by Bob Brown:

“Four years ago, Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club,” Senator Brown said.

“Four years ago, John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm.”

Pretty much says it all.

Shock! Horror!

The office of federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has issued a statement in response to claims he visited a strip club while representing Australia at the United Nations (UN) four years ago.

The statement confirms The Sunday Telegraph reports that Mr Rudd went to the club in Manhattan when he was a UN observer in September 2003.

(source)

And in one drunken and sweaty fell swoop Kevin has done more to attract the “Howard battler” vote than the sale of a million Kevin 07 t-shirts or the release of a thousand YouTube videos. He’ll lose the preference of a couple thousand Family First voters (who probably visit similar clubs when away from their wives on “business”) but who freakin’ cares?

Scoop: Kevin is human. Watch for a blurry amateur video of Howard visiting Spearmint Rhino to be leaked by the Liberal Party in the next month or so.