7 April 2013

Stabbing at the Belco bus exchange

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ACT Policing is investigating a stabbing at Belconnen Bus Interchange this evening (Sunday 7 March).

At about 5pm, a 38-year-old man from Kaleen was stabbed several times in the back by another man on platform two.

The man was treated at the scene by ACT Ambulance and transported to the Canberra Hospital where he is receiving treatment for serious injuries.

Several witnesses provided descriptions to police who have now have arrested a 54–year-old man from McKellar.

Police are urging anyone who may have witnessed the attack to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or at crimestoppers.com.au. Information can be provided anonymously.

[Courtesy ACT Policing]

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Shan12 said :

gungsuperstar said :

Naaawww… I love the comments here! For the 5 years or so that I’d lived in Canberra, I always thought it lacked a bit of soul because people had no real pride or passion for the city in which I live.

And yet, dozens of people with nothing better to do than denigrating a bogan-filled rat hole in such impassioned defence of their own… bogan-filled rat hole.

The thing that makes me most happy after reading this thread? Stepping outside and seeing the quiet, pristine surrounds of Gungahlin 🙂

I hope you’re being sarcastic lol! Gungahlin is the biggest hole of them all. Living in a paddock in the middle of nowhere with houses that all look the same and fighting traffic every day with the others lol. No thanks:) You do realise you could be paying or a house in Melbourne for the same price.

Then log off and f##k off to Melbourne then…….. no subtle Anti-Canberranism’s will be accepted, this is our hole……….you dissident.

gungsuperstar said :

Naaawww… I love the comments here! For the 5 years or so that I’d lived in Canberra, I always thought it lacked a bit of soul because people had no real pride or passion for the city in which I live.

And yet, dozens of people with nothing better to do than denigrating a bogan-filled rat hole in such impassioned defence of their own… bogan-filled rat hole.

The thing that makes me most happy after reading this thread? Stepping outside and seeing the quiet, pristine surrounds of Gungahlin 🙂

I hope you’re being sarcastic lol! Gungahlin is the biggest hole of them all. Living in a paddock in the middle of nowhere with houses that all look the same and fighting traffic every day with the others lol. No thanks:) You do realise you could be paying or a house in Melbourne for the same price.

BimboGeek said :

johnboy said :

Reid has the special flats

I stand corrected. I guess that’s also why Griffith and Red Hill sit lower than I would have expected.

I keep forgetting that the flat rats are technically humans and would be included on demographic statistics!

Also, you have to remember nursing homes. Newer suburbs (i.e. Crace) are full of people working to pay off their little piece of Aus, while many of the older suburbs have retired and nursing home folk. Not to mention, degrees are generally more common in these younger workers nowadays.
The index (I think) they have used includes things like high mortgage(?!), uni education, income, and employed as a professional as measures of high SES….
The high mortgage one seems reasonable (you have to be earing lots to pay it!), except basically anyone buying a new house has one of these, and surely there’s a limit to how this relates to overall ‘advantage’? e.g. If you’re spending all your income on paying off your loan and have to eat catfood for 10 years with no heating in winter, are you that ‘advantaged’? 🙂

Matt_Watts said :

I’m openly pro-Belco (as most know). Having said that, I have nothing against other areas. The fact is, most Canberrans have the choice of living where suits them. C’est la vie. I’m pro Belco and it’s generally all good.

For those who witnessed the incident at the interchange, please go to the police.

I wonder, was it another lively BCC discussion that spilt out onto the street?

johnboy said :

Reid has the special flats

Yep although to be fair to the inner north suburbs one would presume that the majority of the reported assaults were the result of drunken brawls in Civic on weekends.

johnboy said :

Reid has the special flats

I stand corrected. I guess that’s also why Griffith and Red Hill sit lower than I would have expected.

I keep forgetting that the flat rats are technically humans and would be included on demographic statistics!

Matt_Watts said :

I’m openly pro-Belco (as most know). Having said that, I have nothing against other areas. The fact is, most Canberrans have the choice of living where suits them. C’est la vie. I’m pro Belco and it’s generally all good.

For those who witnessed the incident at the interchange, please go to the police.

Have you got a Belco Pride tat? If not your not trying hard enough……

chewy14 said :

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/socio-economic-indexes-for-areas-for-the-act-20130329-2gysd.html?rand=1364536249947

Wow, look at all those Belco suburbs down the bottom of the SES rankings. Seems a hotbed of disadvantage. The boganism virus seems to have gotten a real foothold in the area.

Um… The list you posted seems a bit bulls### to me. Crace is an “advantaged” suburb but Reid is a rubbish one? Since when?

Reid has the special flats

bundah said :

Here’s an idea rioters,have a look at the crime stats re assault 2008 to 2011 and you’ll soon realise that Tuggers and Belco are both as bad as each other which comes as no real surprise.There was an aberration however in 2012 given reported assaults in Belco were 60% higher than Tuggers.You may also be surprised to learn that the assault figures for the inner north surpass both Belco(apart from 2012) and Tuggers.

No shortage of bogan trash in this town!

So there’s twice as much trash north of the  ?w?a?l?l?  lake.

We’ve got a better class of lower-class people here down south, it has to be said.

gungsuperstar9:48 pm 08 Apr 13

Naaawww… I love the comments here! For the 5 years or so that I’d lived in Canberra, I always thought it lacked a bit of soul because people had no real pride or passion for the city in which I live.

And yet, dozens of people with nothing better to do than denigrating a bogan-filled rat hole in such impassioned defence of their own… bogan-filled rat hole.

The thing that makes me most happy after reading this thread? Stepping outside and seeing the quiet, pristine surrounds of Gungahlin 🙂

I’m openly pro-Belco (as most know). Having said that, I have nothing against other areas. The fact is, most Canberrans have the choice of living where suits them. C’est la vie. I’m pro Belco and it’s generally all good.

For those who witnessed the incident at the interchange, please go to the police.

miz said :

When I read this piece I immediately thought, I am glad I live in Tuggeranong where it is safe. From the comments here, clearly I am not the only one! You know how people from interstate bag ‘Canberra’ in ignorance, having never lived here? Tuggeranong is like that in micro – Canberrans love to bag Tuggers, and Tuggers-ites just think, good – stay away, so glad those ignorant people don’t live in Tuggeranong!

So, if you don’t like Tuggeranong, you’re ignorant. Well, I certainly wasn’t familiar with that definition of ignorance, so I suppose you must be right.

Here’s an idea rioters,have a look at the crime stats re assault 2008 to 2011 and you’ll soon realise that Tuggers and Belco are both as bad as each other which comes as no real surprise.There was an aberration however in 2012 given reported assaults in Belco were 60% higher than Tuggers.You may also be surprised to learn that the assault figures for the inner north surpass both Belco(apart from 2012) and Tuggers.

No shortage of bogan trash in this town!

Grimm said :

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

Pipe down, shelbyville.
Belco has Charnwood. Tuggeranong has Kambah, Greenway, Chisolm and Richardson. You win in the number and size of area inhabited by flanny wearing, toothless bogans and single mum Shazzas.

In any case, this happened at a bus interchange. This is a junction point for the loser liners. Not much surprises me in those places. The kind of people that use it is the reason I avoid public transport…

Oi! I live in Quangers and don’t you try to take our toothless flanno bogans away from us. In fact, the Riverside Plaza is a haven for the lame and the toothless.

In any case, if the ACT was the shape of a bullock, Belco would be under its tail…

And I thought the new Belco Interchange incorporated into Westfield was supposed to be much safer than the old “Stalinist” one it replaced.

Grimm said :

But he had to travel south to work there and it is the Chainsaw district now. Knowing the gent on question, I am just happy he was up, out and about doing things.

Tuggeranong messes with your mind, so many single mums there that one has to wonder if there is a central father figure patrolling the bus-stops in a white commodore in his best, going out tracksuit looking to expand his gene pool. It’s no wonder Centrelink and Human serices are based there.

People even speak slower there because when asked they usually say from down south because its hard for them to say Tuggeranong fast.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/socio-economic-indexes-for-areas-for-the-act-20130329-2gysd.html?rand=1364536249947

Wow, look at all those Belco suburbs down the bottom of the SES rankings. Seems a hotbed of disadvantage. The boganism virus seems to have gotten a real foothold in the area.

No wonder they keep the Human Services and Centrelink departments well away from these areas otherwise every Bazza and Shazza would be camping out the front trying to get their dole cheque early every fortnight.
“Don’t those shinybums know that Macca is havin a party and it’s BYOG? Plus it’s little Jaiyen and Braiyden’s birfdy and I want a case of Woodstock’s ta celebrate.”

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

Pipe down, shelbyville.
Belco has Charnwood. Tuggeranong has Kambah, Greenway, Chisolm and Richardson. You win in the number and size of area inhabited by flanny wearing, toothless bogans and single mum Shazzas.

In any case, this happened at a bus interchange. This is a junction point for the loser liners. Not much surprises me in those places. The kind of people that use it is the reason I avoid public transport…

dungfungus said :

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

The villians in Tuggers throw their victims into the lake.

Apparently Carp eat ‘anything’…

DUB said :

If you ask me, both areas are sh!tholes, but Tuggeranong has more bogans.

Im a tuggers boy, but i live up on the hill, so i look down at the Bogans… (buying their drugs from Johno who lives in Charny, with about as many teeth as a gold fish)…

chewy14 said :

PBO said :

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

I bet you feel safe and smug because you live in an area with open carry chainsaw laws……. and not because Tuggeranong is where Belconnen people go to feel better about themselves. (“Could be worse, I could be a single mum of 10 from Greenway.”)

If Tuggeranong was an item of clothing, it would be a mis-shapen flouro school-cap with a flap on the back, attached to a smiling special kids head.

Mr Chainsaw is actually from Dickson.

Should never have been let across the border to cause trouble in the peaceful south. Must be something in the water North of the lake.

But he had to travel south to work there and it is the Chainsaw district now. Knowing the gent on question, I am just happy he was up, out and about doing things.

Tuggeranong messes with your mind, so many single mums there that one has to wonder if there is a central father figure patrolling the bus-stops in a white commodore in his best, going out tracksuit looking to expand his gene pool. It’s no wonder Centrelink and Human serices are based there.

People even speak slower there because when asked they usually say from down south because its hard for them to say Tuggeranong fast.

When I read this piece I immediately thought, I am glad I live in Tuggeranong where it is safe. From the comments here, clearly I am not the only one! You know how people from interstate bag ‘Canberra’ in ignorance, having never lived here? Tuggeranong is like that in micro – Canberrans love to bag Tuggers, and Tuggers-ites just think, good – stay away, so glad those ignorant people don’t live in Tuggeranong!

thebrownstreak6912:32 pm 08 Apr 13

bikhet said :

BimboGeek said :

Can we just agree that they are both awful?

Yes. The only place worse is the inner north, which is full of people desperately trying to be “alternative,” and where you can’t hear yourself think above the thunder of people complaining about not being able to buy a house.

It’s funny because it’s true.

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

The villians in Tuggers throw their victims into the lake.

PBO said :

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

I bet you feel safe and smug because you live in an area with open carry chainsaw laws……. and not because Tuggeranong is where Belconnen people go to feel better about themselves. (“Could be worse, I could be a single mum of 10 from Greenway.”)

If Tuggeranong was an item of clothing, it would be a mis-shapen flouro school-cap with a flap on the back, attached to a smiling special kids head.

Mr Chainsaw is actually from Dickson.

Should never have been let across the border to cause trouble in the peaceful south. Must be something in the water North of the lake.

His crime was probably to ask some repdoid to put his cigarette out.

BimboGeek said :

Can we just agree that they are both awful?

Yes. The only place worse is the inner north, which is full of people desperately trying to be “alternative,” and where you can’t hear yourself think above the thunder of people complaining about not being able to buy a house.

DUB said :

If you ask me, both areas are sh!tholes, but Tuggeranong has more bogans.

No way! The Massey’s of Belconnen more than make up for the rabble of Chisolm and Richardson.

If you ask me, both areas are sh!tholes, but Tuggeranong has more bogans.

PBO said :

If Tuggeranong was an item of clothing, it would be a mis-shapen flouro school-cap with a flap on the back, attached to a smiling special kids head.

Most descriptive sledging I have ever read. Love your work.

Can we just agree that they are both awful?

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

I bet you feel safe and smug because you live in an area with open carry chainsaw laws……. and not because Tuggeranong is where Belconnen people go to feel better about themselves. (“Could be worse, I could be a single mum of 10 from Greenway.”)

If Tuggeranong was an item of clothing, it would be a mis-shapen flouro school-cap with a flap on the back, attached to a smiling special kids head.

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

I like Tuggeranong, but Belconnen really does frighten me. Too many neanderthals in too tight a space.

Shan12 said :

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

I sense the insecurity is strong in this one.

This is why Belconnen is so bad. People bag Tuggeranong, but this never happens there like it does in Belco. Belconnen also has Charnwood therefore it is the worst area to live in Canberra.

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