17 January 2007

boy set on fire in holt

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I hadnt heard about this locally:

herald sun

The 11-year-old suffered burns to his head after he and his friend, riding under Southern Cross Drive in Holt about 2.40pm, were confronted by a group of up to eight youths.

Police say one of the youths lit the contents of an aerosol can and directed a stream of fire towards the boy’s face.

Seems quite callous.

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However it is punctuated. Stay in tuggers. :p

>And punctuation.

That’s not a sentence. Back to Tuggers. Do not pass go.

Come on Mael, to be fair it’s probably taken her/him that long to type the response!

and don’t wait for a year and a half to respond to a thread.

winnie: What can we say? we’re just a harder breed than you south side pansies :p

its funny, beacause with all this talk of gang related violence, delibertely lit fires, young kids getting burnt, break and enters, its all coming from good old belco,in such hopeless surburbs as hawker, flory, higgins, holt, charnwood, , and you know whats really funny is that north side people love themselves and are the first to say how bad tuggeranong is, but look how shit you look, take a good look at your scumy old north and see the north side is old, degrated, crime ridden, yokal, and now what i think is jealous of the cool, hip, laid back south side. have fun with your fires, and burglarys guys. North side sucks

Deadmandrinking1:30 pm 19 Jan 07

The parents are in Kippax tavern

Put tacks on the ground or some fishing wire at low levels….

FFS, where are the parents?

It is getting more serious that is for sure. I noticed just before when I was down at the kippax post office, they have a petition running to try and get something done about them riding through the shopping centre and terrorising those outside.

Dome, where the phrase is “everyone knows who it is”, the next, unspoken part of the phrase is “but nobody’s prepared to say it in court”. That’s probably why the police aren’t taking serious action.

My colleague used live in Higgins – she says that the perps of the arson/assault/vandalism/brek ins are well known, led by two brothers. Strange that the Police don’t know (or care) about this.

Has anyone considered the kids may have been playing with aerosols and matches, and have made up the story to explain the results?

Absent Diane2:18 pm 18 Jan 07

wtf is up with this city/country/world at the moment.

I doubt it Ralph. The Hun wouldn’t miss a chance like that to up the ante on racism.

School holidays.

Interesting to see whether this is a gang of islander kids.

Deadmandrinking3:01 am 18 Jan 07

Holt’s always been a hotspot. I work in Kippax and my co-workers are constantly having to deal with cars being broken into etc. It’s just bored kids in a relatively low-income area.
Now, before VG starts laying int me, I’d like to say that I hope his buddies catch these kids, give them a good kick up the rear (figurativly speaking) and make them frightened of ever breaking the law again. Scare them then and then there my be a better chance of them not turning into AJW’s. Hell, I got caught for vandalism when I was a little asshole and I still get the jitters when I see flashing blue lights.

I seem to recall a gang of youths that had an AVO placed against them by the props. of Florey shops? Same ‘uns?

Holt is fast becoming the new Charnwood.

Any police interviews regarding the 8 youths might want to direct their questioning towards a few b&e jobs done on cars in the area as well.

Not to mention the several recent deliberately lit fires in the area.

VYBerlinaV8_now with_added_grunt7:12 pm 17 Jan 07

I hope everyone finds out who these kids are, so some of their ‘friends’ can dole out some justice that our legal system clearly isn’t capable of.

Any police interviews regarding the 8 youths might want to direct their questioning towards a few b&e jobs done on cars in the area as well.

I wonder if the “defence” will be that the kids who used the aerosol can have a ‘bad’ home life….

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