30 September 2011

Maccas hedge torched in Greenway

30 September 2011 | johnboy

ACT Fire Brigade has extinguished a small fire at an area of a garden hedge in front of McDonalds Restaurant, Cowlishaw Street, Greenway.

No damage to any structures.

Crews responded following multiple Emergency Triple Zero (000) calls from 2.51pm.

Estimated size of hedge alight was two metres high x five metres long.

Cause of fire deemed suspicious and will be handed to ACT Policing to investigate.

[Courtesy ESA]

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Tooks5:36 pm 01 Oct 11

trevar said :

Tooks said :

Not worth investigating arsonists who set things alight in the middle of the day? Riiiight.

Okay, perhaps if they were to catch them, there would be a benefit. But in the real world, what does the investigation get us?

To catch them, police have to investigate. Plenty of CCTV around McD’s. Gotta try at least.

bigfeet2:18 pm 01 Oct 11

trevar said :

Okay, perhaps if they were to catch them, there would be a benefit. But in the real world, what does the investigation get us?

Well, the investigation is a way of figuring out who did it and then ‘catching them’.

trevar9:06 am 01 Oct 11

Tooks said :

Not worth investigating arsonists who set things alight in the middle of the day? Riiiight.

Okay, perhaps if they were to catch them, there would be a benefit. But in the real world, what does the investigation get us?

what_the9:03 am 01 Oct 11

Deref said :

“McDonalds restaurant”? We have a new oxymoron.

They even call them Family Restaurants! Always thought the same.

Tooks8:49 am 01 Oct 11

trevar said :

I’d like to see a cost/benefit analysis of having the firies attend and police investigate instead of just having some bozo put it out and no one investigating it… but undertaking the analysis wouldn’t be very efficient now, would it…

Not worth investigating arsonists who set things alight in the middle of the day? Riiiight.

creative_canberran12:16 am 01 Oct 11

trevar said :

I’d like to see a cost/benefit analysis of having the firies attend and police investigate instead of just having some bozo put it out and no one investigating it… but undertaking the analysis wouldn’t be very efficient now, would it…

The benefit is if deliberate, catching these freaks. Pyros tend to have other psychological issues, but regardless, even if they stick to lighting fires, we have a fuel load in parts of the state not seen in 30-40yrs. Better to nab them before they join those twits in the Blue Mountains.

NickD9:40 pm 30 Sep 11

trevar said :

I’d like to see a cost/benefit analysis of having the firies attend and police investigate instead of just having some bozo put it out and no one investigating it… but undertaking the analysis wouldn’t be very efficient now, would it…

I suspect that concern is that the idiot(s) who started this fire in a public place during the middle of the day are fairly likely to set fire to other things in the future.

trevar6:57 pm 30 Sep 11

I’d like to see a cost/benefit analysis of having the firies attend and police investigate instead of just having some bozo put it out and no one investigating it… but undertaking the analysis wouldn’t be very efficient now, would it…

Deref5:04 pm 30 Sep 11

“McDonalds restaurant”? We have a new oxymoron.

milkman4:13 pm 30 Sep 11

Probably just the gates of hell opening as Maccas pays its annual subscription.

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