Canberra overpasses to get screened

Kids that throw rocks off overpasses need to spend some time in the clink. It’s a deliberate, malicious action with a predictable outcome.

Don’t you love the people who want more many police on the roads, then complain if they get booked that it is just “revenue raising”.

Removing a shopping trolley from the parking lot of a supermarket is theft in most countries. Strange something like this isn’t done here.

DarkLadyWolfMother said :

There are some quite artistic screens on the way up to Sydney where they’ve somehow embedded images of banksias and the like into the mesh. Maybe they could combine this with public arts funding?

Just another distraction.

“Harold is that supposed to be a Acacia pycnantha or a longifolia”

That’s when they hit the shopping trolleys.

Sgt.Bungers said :

One or two of these kids/young adults locked up in appropriate detention centres should scare the rest of them straight.

Just like they all take notice when one of their own kills themselves or others by irresponsible drivng, and all take heed and drive perfectly afterwards.

cantanga said :

Sgt.Bungers said :

Surely an attempted murder charge could stick in many rock throwing situations? One or two of these kids/young adults locked up in appropriate detention centres should scare the rest of them straight.

Better yet castrate the little darlings and remove them from the gene pool before they can reproduce and proliferate by knocking up their 14 year old girlfriends.

Cut their arms off first.

Sgt.Bungers said :

Surely an attempted murder charge could stick in many rock throwing situations? One or two of these kids/young adults locked up in appropriate detention centres should scare the rest of them straight.

Better yet castrate the little darlings and remove them from the gene pool before they can reproduce and proliferate by knocking up their 14 year old girlfriends.

Sgt.Bungers said :

Of course… rather than screens, bumping up the police presence on ACT roads by 10-20 times the amount we have at the moment would mean that these idiots are more likely to be caught.

Surely an attempted murder charge could stick in many rock throwing situations? One or two of these kids/young adults locked up in appropriate detention centres should scare the rest of them straight.

And in the ACT that would mean 2 slaps on the wrist and and “don’t be so naughty” from the judge …

I am not sure about at the moment. But a few weeks back all these barriers were on the ACTPLA website for Development Application Comments.

Why do that when GovCo can make money by requiring all rocks to display registration plates, then install automated rock cameras at each bridge.

Of course… rather than screens, bumping up the police presence on ACT roads by 10-20 times the amount we have at the moment would mean that these idiots are more likely to be caught.

Surely an attempted murder charge could stick in many rock throwing situations? One or two of these kids/young adults locked up in appropriate detention centres should scare the rest of them straight.

perhaps they realised that lying on the road would be a very short and messy protest?

at least it isn’t like some of the things i did for entertainment when i was younger… (shudder)

Pfft, kids these days have moved off throwing rocks from the overpasses to lining up rows of shopping trolleys across the lanes of the Parkway at 2am in the morning.

Discovering those while doing 100kph was fun.

Serious? That’s pretty full on. And utterly stupid of those kids. Wow. Slightly confused as to why I’m surprised about it though.

Postalgeek said :

Skidbladnir said :

Pfft, kids these days have moved off throwing rocks from the overpasses to lining up rows of shopping trolleys across the lanes of the Parkway at 2am in the morning.

Discovering those while doing 100kph was fun.

It’s about time shopping trolleys were registered and made to pay CTP

The shopping trolleys were a protest, they want designated “trolley lanes” on our roads.

Skidbladnir said :

Pfft, kids these days have moved off throwing rocks from the overpasses to lining up rows of shopping trolleys across the lanes of the Parkway at 2am in the morning.

Discovering those while doing 100kph was fun.

It’s about time shopping trolleys were registered and made to pay CTP

The plans for these have been on the ACTPLA website for a month.

Pfft, kids these days have moved off throwing rocks from the overpasses to lining up rows of shopping trolleys across the lanes of the Parkway at 2am in the morning.

Discovering those while doing 100kph was fun.

deye: The most dangerous rocks and blocks of concrete have been too big to throw – just dropped.

DarkLadyWolfMother said :

There are some quite artistic screens on the way up to Sydney where they’ve somehow embedded images of banksias and the like into the mesh. Maybe they could combine this with public arts funding?

With or without Safe-T-Cams?

so they can’t just aim higher when throwing ?

guess we won’t be looking over the side of the bridge when driving anymore, eventually we’ll probably be driving through a corridor of walls all the time.

There are some quite artistic screens on the way up to Sydney where they’ve somehow embedded images of banksias and the like into the mesh. Maybe they could combine this with public arts funding?

Even I don’t know if I’m being serious or not.

that’s ‘watermarked’

I guess it was ‘unbeknownst’ to us because police don’t want to be giving delinquent minds any new ideas.

Screens can be ugly, but I like what they’ve done with the screens on the overpasses heading towards Sydney, with what I think are banksia flowers ‘waterwarked’ on them. Done right screens may not be so bad, the necessary evil that they are.