What Sort of Arsehole Does This?

Gettamulla Tupya

Child injured in piano wire trap

An eight-year-old girl has ridden her bicycle into a piano wire strung between two trees in a park southeast of Melbourne.

The girl was hit in the neck by the wire and suffered neck and facial injuries.

Police believe whoever tied the wire was targeting local youths they were angry at for riding motorbikes in the park in the West
Park Estate in Hastings.

Constable Kate Lawson says no arrests have been made and police are appealing for people with information to contact them.

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles..._Melbourne_park

cyclist2

a similar situation happened in Peth last year on a bike path.

cfsmtb

Some fkwt/s thought it appropriate to take vigilante action against other unrelated park users. Thus showing yet again the stupidity of taking the law into their own hands.

barry taylor

"Gettamulla Tupya" <snapper@pookmail.com> wrote in message
news:sgnvq39gtue56lob6scg5e0qjqg6o4b51f@4ax.com...
| Child injured in piano wire trap
|
| An eight-year-old girl has ridden her bicycle into a piano wire strung
between two trees in a park southeast of Melbourne.

lousy reporting - the wire shown on TV news tonight was thick fencing wire
the marks on the girl's neck were nothing like the decapitation that could
have been caused by genuine piano wire

|
| The girl was hit in the neck by the wire and suffered neck and facial
injuries.
|
| Police believe whoever tied the wire was targeting local youths they
were angry at for riding motorbikes in the park in the West
| Park Estate in Hastings.

it was indeed a dumb move to install that wire where it was - not on two
trees but between two posts at an opening into a park area


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TimC

On 2008-02-11, barry taylor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> "Gettamulla Tupya" <snapper@pookmail.com> wrote in message
> news:sgnvq39gtue56lob6scg5e0qjqg6o4b51f@4ax.com...
> | The girl was hit in the neck by the wire and suffered neck and facial
> injuries.
> |
> | Police believe whoever tied the wire was targeting local youths they
> were angry at for riding motorbikes in the park in the West
> | Park Estate in Hastings.
>
> it was indeed a dumb move to install that wire where it was - not on two
> trees but between two posts at an opening into a park area

The dickheads probably thought "oh, anyone would see that!". I
started my crash bandicoot career when I rode eyes-first into some
monkey bars in a playground. Didn't see the 2 inch thick metal bar at
eye height.

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TimC
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Graeme Dods

Possibly the type of idiot who reads this guy's column in the Times in
the UK - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/co...icle3097464.ece

This kicked off a big stramash a little while back and numpty Parris
used the defense that it was meant to be humourous. Arse.

Graeme

Theo Bekkers

The kind that is sick to death of young idiots on trailbikes causing a
nuisance, ripping up the park, and can't get any action from the shire
rangers.

It wasn't piano wire, and nobody was decapitated. Yes, it was a very stupid
thing to do, but I can understand the frustration behind the action.

Theo

treadly&me

I think we can share the sense of frustration while still being thoroughly disgusted by the action itself. A wire trap is clearly intended to injure in a serious way. The callous and indiscriminate nature of such an act suggests that it was carried out by a particularly dim-witted kind of dickhead.

Theo Bekkers

me wrote:
> Theo Bekkers Wrote:

>> The kind that is sick to death of young idiots on trailbikes causing
>> a nuisance, ripping up the park, and can't get any action from the
>> shire rangers.
>>
>> It wasn't piano wire, and nobody was decapitated. Yes, it was a very
>> stupid
>> thing to do, but I can understand the frustration behind the action.

> I think we can share the sense of frustration while still being
> thoroughly disgusted by the action itself. A wire trap is clearly
> intended to injure in a serious way. The callous and indiscriminate
> nature of such an act suggests that it was carried out by a
> particularly dim-witted kind of dickhead.

I totally agree. I was answering the question above, not justifying it.

Theo

TimC

On 2008-02-12, treadly&amp me (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> Theo Bekkers Wrote:
>> The kind that is sick to death of young idiots on trailbikes causing a
>> nuisance, ripping up the park, and can't get any action from the shire
>> rangers.
>>
>> It wasn't piano wire, and nobody was decapitated. Yes, it was a very
>> stupid
>> thing to do, but I can understand the frustration behind the action.

I don't. I've been plenty frustrated before, but I guess I just don't
have the stupid genes (I also don't walk down the middle of roads when
blind drunk, even when I was a teenager, so I guess I am really am not
normal).

> I think we can share the sense of frustration while still being
> thoroughly disgusted by the action itself. A wire trap is clearly
> intended to injure in a serious way. The callous and indiscriminate
> nature of such an act suggests that it was carried out by a particularly
vv
> dim-witted kind of dickhead.
^^
cowardly

I don't fathom how anyone can be so stupid, actually. In all the
times I have ever been frustrated, I have never thought it a good idea
to indiscriminately lay down a wire to catch the next random object or
person going through. The dickheads presumably left the scene too
before the event happened, because I also don't fathom how you could
not treat the person and identify yourself because of the sheer guilt
had you actually seen the event happen in front of your eyes.

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Terryc

TimC wrote:

> I don't fathom how anyone can be so stupid, actually. In all the
> times I have ever been frustrated, I have never thought it a good idea
> to indiscriminately lay down a wire to catch the next random object or
> person going through.

Tim

these organism lack a /dev/rnd or whatever it is called these days.


Other 2c.
They are distributed throughout Australia and all the instances that I
remember were not targetted at bicycle riders, but illegally ridden
motor bikes. Small comfort.

I note that locally, the desired effect was not achieved until someone
put an installation in the neighbourhood of the local town/city
clerk/manager. It is really hard to be an arrogant arsehole and do
nothing when your SO passes on the earful she copped when picking up
the kids from school.

Now we get regular updates in the local newspapers about the results
achieved by the police trail bike squad. Still mystified why they even
mention the council rangers in the reports as all they ever did was
drive the 4WD through the reserve M-F/9-5.

Donga

On Feb 12, 7:54 am, "Theo Bekkers" <tbekk...@bekkers.com.au> wrote:
> The kind that is sick to death of young idiots on trailbikes causing a
> nuisance, ripping up the park, and can't get any action from the shire
> rangers.
>
> It wasn't piano wire, and nobody was decapitated. Yes, it was a very stupid
> thing to do, but I can understand the frustration behind the action.
>
> Theo

A while back, some sweetheart in Bne was stringing something across a
bikeway with a nail attached, so that when the line broke, the nail
whipped around. Noice.

ProfTournesol

you mean that there is more than one type of arsehole?

John Tserkezis

Terryc wrote:

> They are distributed throughout Australia and all the instances that I
> remember were not targetted at bicycle riders, but illegally ridden
> motor bikes. Small comfort.

Small comfort indeed. Especially because so far, no-one knows for sure if
it was originally targetted at the monkey bikers at all. It's only speculation.

I really can't see ANYONE being so stupid that they just "assume" that
bicycle riders have such acute vision they THEY see the wire, but the intended
targets have such poor vision they won't.

Thankfully, the law probably won't either. May the entire book library be
thrown at them, if and when they find them.

I pity the perpetrator's lawyers: Ah, yes but your honour, we should
remember that it is a miracle that my client functions at all due to the fact
they only have four operational brain cells. Surely there can be some
accounting for this in the sentencing?
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