{"id":620917,"date":"2026-04-21T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:33:09","slug":"perth-therapist-accused-of-beating-clients-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620917\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth therapist accused of beating client\u2019s dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WA Police Perth District Superintendent Amber Harvey has confirmed the thousands of people who showed up to Forrest Place on Saturday to \u2018worship the cactus\u2019, were generally well-behaved.<\/p>\n<p>She said the organiser initially tried to cancel the event, but by that time it had \u201cgone too far on social media\u201d with droves of people planning to attend the mock event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thousands attending the event of \u2018Worship the Cactus\u2019 at Forrest Place.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/38027e1bd371f72e47b46aee5581e476f5074bb39e686791df33e54246e0c7fd.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Thousands attending the event of \u2018Worship the Cactus\u2019 at Forrest Place.Emily Newton\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a police presence down there,\u201d she told Radio 6PR this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA large number turned up on the Saturday, but they were well-behaved. We had a few issues early on with a couple of them, but then generally the crowd were really positive, it was a good vibe down there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe messaging that we sent out to people was that if you\u2019re coming down with your friends doing the worship, it\u2019s obviously not an offence to do that, but as soon as you try to fix yourself [to the cactus] or cause damage \u2026 that\u2019s when police will intervene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WA Police Perth District Superintendent Amber Harvey has confirmed the thousands of people who showed up to Forrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-620917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}