Do you feel safer in Canberra?

somewhere_between_bundah_and_goulburn said :

I don’t feel safe in Gungahlin, too many juvenile delinquents. I’ve heard that the ACT has the highest level of them as well, though I don’t remember where I got it from

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I reckon you’re probably more likely to get hit by lightning than blown up in Canberra.

Holden Caulfield said :

Won’t somebody, please, think of the blue Falcon!

I have been looking for a car these days

Won’t somebody, please, think of the blue Falcon!

My suggestion, it was left behind by mistake by one of the gardeners from Parliamentary Services. Not a big story at all but perhaps a reaction to years of brainwashing and conditioning by the Coalition of the Willing.

Oh no! A moving bag! That’s even worse… it must be an incendiary device! A remote-controlled incendiary device! Run! Run for your lives!

Strange as it sounds, I think the bag has simply moved. It is now next to the cycling/walking/jogging/whatever path that runs through the grounds of Parliament House…

vg said :

“and surely we have more AFP officers per capita than any other city”

Obviously Sherlock, as we’re the only jurisdiction in Australia where the AFP performs a primarily community policing role

So by default my statement is correct!

Perhaps constructive comments relating to the topic (do you feel safer in Canberra?) would be more welcome.
🙂

“and surely we have more AFP officers per capita than any other city”

Obviously Sherlock, as we’re the only jurisdiction in Australia where the AFP performs a primarily community policing role

the bag was there at 4PM yesterday and gone by 10AM this morning

so I’m guessing they read it on RiotACT last night and got something done about it

I’m pretty confident that if terrorists struck they go for maximum exposure and damage.
So i’d feel unsafe in Sydney.

Maybe the bag is full of stolen cash? Or state secrets? Or kittens? Or Doritos?

I think I have to head over there RIGHT NOW and look in it!

Paranoid and a goose..

Well, the blue Falcon is still on the side of the road. ZOMG, what if … what if it has bombz inside?! We’re all doomed!!!

Went past this morning and the bag was gone. So hopefully some did do their job (even if it was a few days late).
Makes you wonder, if you did try something like this as a social experiment (or a Chaser skit) just how far you could go. I bet if you tried to dump a bag right out the front of the US Embassy, it wouldn’t be there for long.

No I don’t feel safe in Canberra but it not’s not due to terrorism. If terrorists and such wanted to do some damage they wouldn’t come to Canberra really and anyway they could just snipe anyone they wanted from mt ainslie haha. The guards are good at their job, if it was a problem issue they’d have investigated it, if its garbage is just that. Trust me on that those buffoons bother me all the time!

maybe the guards did pop over for a squizz, determined it was merely someone’s refuse and of no further security concern – and like the rest of us, expected (vainly) that canberra’s [cough] efficient civic administrators would attend to the bag and remove it…

Yes, you’re being paranoid, but you’re not alone.

Even at the height of the IRA’s bombing campaign in England, which saw bombs going off every couple of months in London, there wasn’t this paranoia we are seeing in the modern western world.

Of course, the IRA didn’t intentionally try to kill as many people as possible, they just wanted to blow up buildings to get attention. The terrorist actions we see today, although far less regular, even unheard of in most countries like Australia, are just that little bit scarier.

The day that I start worrying about random garbage bags on the ground will be the day one of them actually blow up.

Stop falling for overhyped, American paranoia!

Wow, thats wierd. I noticed the exact same garbage bag you mentioned and thought the same thing.

Geez, I hope you haven’t seen the dark blue Falcon on the side of the road on the city bound side of Commonwealth Avenue. It’s been there for well over a week. We must be safer here, because I can’t believe it hasn’t been trashed or looted yet.

if it hasn’t blown up after a couple of weeks(months?) I’m sure the AFP bomb squad will feel they need to deal with it.

I don’t feel safe in Gungahlin, too many juvenile delinquents. I’ve heard that the ACT has the highest level of them as well, though I don’t remember where I got it from

I noticed the very same bag of rubbish myself. Pretty poor effort on the Lodge’s security guards to not have gone and checked it out seeing as it is only about 100m from the gates.

I’m sure it is nothing sinister but even so…having it sit there for two days is not a good look. Will be interesting to see if it is still there tomorrow…

We live in Canberra, not Baghdad, so it’s safe to assume that it’s a bag of garbage. Australian political leaders have pretty light security (when I’ve seen Howard and Rudd around town they only had a couple of guards with them and I’ve been to an event where Julia Gillard arrived by herself) so I guess that the experts don’t think that there’s much of a threat

Pull over and take a look, or call Canberra Connect to come pick it up. No doubt it’s a bag of rubbish escaped or dumped. It would have blown up by now if it was something sinister.