Is Perth really that dangerous?
Oct 20th 2008, 3:21 am
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Re: Is Perth really that dangerous?
I hear they stand the dead up in the bus shelters to make it look busy.
Oct 20th 2008, 3:32 am
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Re: Is Perth really that dangerous?
God, I don't know where you people come from, but Dublin is like the OK Coral compared to Joondalup. No comparison. You just have to look at the headlines on a daily basis. They reported today on Perthnow that a bloke was hit would a bottle yesterday. I was shocked... that they would even report such a trivial event. Although I'm sure it wasn't trivial for the victim. In Dublin, you don't make the papers unless your pretty much dead.
Take it from me... Its heaven here.. in comparison to most European metro areas that I have been too. Just have some common sense and keep you wits about you. Don't be the weak animal to pack singles out.
Take it from me... Its heaven here.. in comparison to most European metro areas that I have been too. Just have some common sense and keep you wits about you. Don't be the weak animal to pack singles out.
Oct 20th 2008, 3:43 am
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Re: Is Perth really that dangerous?
On a more serious note, this was in the news today.
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/article.aspx?id=273634
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/article.aspx?id=273634
Oct 20th 2008, 3:59 am
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Re: Is Perth really that dangerous?
I think glassing is one of the lowest sorts of violence. Maybe because I had a friend back in the UK years ago who got glassed (for very little reason) but I think it's just nasty. One moment of drunken hot-headedness, a lifetime of scars - usually facial. 
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Oct 20th 2008, 4:01 am
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Re: Is Perth really that dangerous?
On a more serious note, this was in the news today.
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/article.aspx?id=273634
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/article.aspx?id=273634
Seasider: Then I might as well stay put wherever I am.
I think I'm in love with boring Perth, without the crime of course.
Oct 20th 2008, 4:01 am
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Re: Is Perth really that dangerous?
Brain dead, but happy, even though they don't know it.
Oct 20th 2008, 5:08 am
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I'm going to put a spanner in the works here and say that there is no way I would travel on the trains alone at night in Perth. In Perth the city train station was full of weirdos - hairy biker blokes or gangs of kids. They have a police station there for a reason. At night they have guards on the train and again that is for a reason. Full of mostly weirdos. I saw quite alot of aggro on the Freo - Perth line. One beardy weirdo was really laying in to a nurse who had finished her shift, threatening, swearing etc luckily the guards stepped in. I have seen loads of people chucked off the trains. In the UK the average person uses public transport whereas in the States and Aus I find it is some of the more marginalised people who do. There was actually a Perth play written - night train to Freo (I think) about the dodgy trains. Also there are gangs of kids who think it's cool to swear and intimidate people. Lots of crime takes place at the Perth station and on the trains. Personally I had one really scarey experience on a train in the UK, back in the 80s when a skinhead was attacking people and then one in the states where a kind of gangster type guy started threatening my husband and was yelling all this ' homeboy' stuff and pointing to his pants like he had a knife, it was terrifying. Luckily in Perth there is the guards at night time and my advice would be if you have to travel stick near to them. Well dodgy. These days I stick to driving or walking !
in the uk the trains are so damn expensive beyond belief, that only the law abiding(generally), money earning type people actually get on them
in oz a dole bludging criminal can easily afford regular train fares
on the streets however it's a different story
i don't see gangs of kids roaming the streets in oz looking for trouble, but in england the streets are infested with troublemakers
Oct 20th 2008, 6:19 am
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Re: Is Perth really that dangerous?
"Life guards at one of Perth's most popular beaches shut down patrols early yesterday after being forced to flee with an injured girl when an angry mob of up to 300 youths abused her rescuers.
The alcohol-fuelled attack capped off a shameful day which saw tonnes of rubbish, including bottles and syringes, left strewn at beaches from Cottesloe to Scarborough."
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ntentID=103561
The alcohol-fuelled attack capped off a shameful day which saw tonnes of rubbish, including bottles and syringes, left strewn at beaches from Cottesloe to Scarborough."
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ntentID=103561
Oct 20th 2008, 6:52 am
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Oct 20th 2008, 7:34 am
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