renth

Driving my kids this morning I noticed the vandals had a good night last night. Every bus shelter I saw in Ocean Reef had been smashed up. The ones without glass had all the seats upended.

Add this to the "bitching about Perth" threads.

Perthforme

Lost count of the times i saw this happen to bus shelters and BT phone boxes, in UK.
Its nothing new , saw a smashed one a couple of weeks ago on the wanneroo road , and one near here at ocean keys .
Shop windows are a drunks favorite too on friday nights

renth

Did you notice how last night just about every one around Ocean Reef has been trashed. Not just one glass panel, but all of them?

Perthforme

No not been out last night or today ! in lazy mode

Pollyana

I used to see sights like that every Saturday morning in Brighton (UK)
Whats that saying - same brown stuff, different bucket?!

renth

Not really, discussing Australian lifestyle and culture.

Wendy

Yep, same here. There has been no glass in the shelters near me for over a year. It's smashed as soon as it's put in.

Ransi

I've yet to see a bus shelter...

Jimclevs

Rightly or wrongly, I am a great believer in the "Arab" form of justice for these toe-rags (and that includes the petty thieves as well as the vandals).

Depending on the severity of the crime a set number of fingers are "removed".

Not likely to re-offend then.

Jim

thebears

Sorry to hear that renth. Such senseless acts really piss me off.

On Wednesday morning 2 fellow residents in the short term apartment complex we are staying in had their cars broken in. Our car was in the middle and for some reason they left it alone.

Perhaps it was because these 2 both had left laptops, DVD & video recorders etc in the back seats?

But the point I would like to make is the generosity that came out from other "Australian Residents" - offers of lifts to attend meetings and use of phones to call relevant authorities. One guy even offered the use of his laptop to help a poor girl forward emails to her boss for an important presentation.

Kiwi

MrsDagboy

At our old house we used to live at a T intersection with traffic lights & next door (on the section of T at top right) was bushland with a fence.

That bloody fence got knocked down so many times by idiots loosing control of their cars because they were hooning around the corner that it got to be a joke between the neighbours on the other side & ourselves. We would bet on how many days after the council had been to fix it until someone knocked it down again.

Eventually council gave up & left the damn thing down - it must have been costing them a fortune to replace it every couple of weeks .

kiwichild

The useless bastards do it out my way as well Renth. Think it's part of Aussie youth culture by now

Time Transperth bought some top of the line indestrucible stuff.

Vash the Stampede

The old bus shelters were always made of solid concrete. When I left Perth nearly two and a half years ago, you could still see a few of them in Bassendean, particularly in the area around Bassendean Primary School.

There were also one or two of them along the Great Eastern Highway, as you climb the hill out of Midland towards Greenmount.

Exactly why the government doesn't still make them out of concrete, I simply do not know. These flimsy little glass-and-steel thingies are a complete waste of time and (taxpayer's) money.

Larissa

We have those in Joondalup and they get painted every so often, colourful murals by local kids... not graffiti lol!

gedge

Maybe someone could invent one that fights back?