The Motel at Jamison is on Fire.

Kramer said :

I heard recently that the shiny new Jammo has made a fair dent in Westfield’s business at the Belco Mall, but their success may be short lived with this happening, and other things like this:
http://the-riotact.com/?p=5913

Maybe they need better security? Otherwise ramp up the local residential property development, to get the scum outta the area.

2 incidents in just as many years. Gee…that’s crime-ridden. Kind of like, umm…the average suburban shopping centre?

Perhaps the entire city should hire better security. Maybe they can put together a team of trained specialists, who are armed and have the power of arrest. This elite crack squad of security should also have an easy-to-remember phone number so they can be called to anywhere in the city, say triple 0, everyone can remember that. Perhaps even the higher-trained members of this security team can investigate crimes they didn’t reach in time to stop, gathering evidence and catching the offenders later on, to make sure people know crime isn’t something that’s easy to get away with.

Oh wait…

Yeah, even when you had to walk though what I can only assume was an intentionally threatening alley way to get to Coles after hours, it was a pretty safe place.

I night managed the supermarket in Jamo for a number of years back in the 90’s. Despite being witness to many interesting sights such as naked shoppers, people falling off the wall below the pub and cracking their head open, kids on drugs, people having sex and cracking the Comm Bank’s widows in the process, and kids doing doughnuts in the carpark I never saw anyhting that would suggest a requirement for higher security. Jamo at 3am was as safe as houses. Crack houses.

The Jamo Inn smelt like urinal cakes, and the urinal smelt like rats.

I heard recently that the shiny new Jammo has made a fair dent in Westfield’s business at the Belco Mall, but their success may be short lived with this happening, and other things like this:
http://the-riotact.com/?p=5913

Maybe they need better security? Otherwise ramp up the local residential property development, to get the scum outta the area.

p1 said :

After resisting arrest, police used a taser gun to suppress the man.

Suppress is an interesting choice of words.

A bit nicer than “police used a taser gun to fu## up the man a bit more and then arrested him.

After resisting arrest, police used a taser gun to suppress the man.

Suppress is an interesting choice of words.

Meth is a hell of a drug.

Not an insurance job then…

Nup, doesn’t sound like it.

Explains why, in addition to three ACT Pumpers, and the BA Truck, there were several (4 or 5 I saw) police vehicles, patrolling the local streets.

If it is an insurance job, the people doing it must have a passion for theatre.

Not an insurance job then…

There may be more to it.

See: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/brawl-at-shops-believed-linked-to-fire/1445895.aspx

Probably just more vandals. The windows had all been broken some weeks ago.

Shame.