Throwing rocks off bridges

Duffman · 22-04-2005, 12:18 AM

I didnt think this sort of thing would happen anymore but obviously it still does. On my way to the train station I was comming up to a large bridge to notice three people standing up on top. Two guys and one girl couldn't figure what they where doing until I got closer and noticed them chucking something up in the air.. big rocks! Luckly I saw them early and got on the gas and got through in time.

There was a fair few cars in front of me at the time about 5 all tail gating each other so im wondering if they where so lucky as to not get hit. Luckly I was driving a fair bit behind them and got the chance to speed up. The highway is rather new only 1 lane each way and isnt connected to the main bruce highway yet. Unluckly we moved houses out there which im not to happy about.

Got in contact with the police they said they would send a car out hopefully they will at least even better if they catch them. Just so annoying your spending all the money on a nice car get insurance only to have some idiot throw rocks. Then you have to pay your insurnace premium while they head down the park to get stoned and do it all again.

I was lucky not to get hit but come on why does this thing still happen you would think even those bogans would know how stupid it is!!

Has anyone else been unfortunate enough to have this happen to them?

**Full Noise** · 22-04-2005, 12:40 AM

I had some punk kids throw some rocks off the Station Street overpass on the Western Highway at Melton last year, great fun when you drive a B-Double tanker. A lot of us (truck drivers) have been a bit edgy since those losers in Campbelltown thew a sixteen kilogram piece of concrete of an overpass on the M5 killing a truck driver by the name of Mark Evans. They later named the overpass in his memory.

Cheers, Danny

**Captain Stubing** · 22-04-2005, 12:43 AM

I've heard of this happening on the Deagon Deviation, from overpasses on the M1, and on the Busways. It seems to be mostly kids/teenagers, who mustn't realize the possible effect of what they are doing. Stupid people, I pray they get a brain, before they kill someone!

Edit: The locations mentioned above are in Bris Vegas, aka Brisneyland.

22-04-2005, 12:50 AM

It's unfortunate that idiot's like these don't realise the severity of their actions. Not only the fact that they can cause a major accident causing death but also broken bones and paralysis, mental trauma. The list can go on and on...

Danny · 22-04-2005, 12:51 AM

Yeah it happened also today in melbourne. Some kids on the Hoppers crossing overpass on the princes Highway in Laverton threw rocks at a Train and hurt a lady when the rock hit the window and smashed in her face.

I'm always on the freeway and ofeten look far far into the distance. If theres anyone on the overpass, then i'm very edgy and cautious going underneath it. Its a bit like being careful going through a green light at midnight...

xdc351 · 22-04-2005, 02:26 AM

Thats bloody shocking. If I had one wish it would be to catch some lowlife throwing a rock off an overpass and getting 5 minutes alone with them before the cops arrived.

Blue Oval Mopar Man · 22-04-2005, 02:45 AM

beat em to within an inch of their lives i say !

Dodge · 22-04-2005, 07:40 AM

bored and uneducated shits will be shits, slap their parents for letting them go of the rails, i know all kids do stupid things but if only the kids were taught the value of life, sure let them blow up a letter box or something , but to put someones life at risk is another thing. some times i feel like going to the skate park with a jack hammer and ripping it up after seing what some of them do to the hood, then again if i did that i would be a dumb as them just older.

Yaw · 22-04-2005, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dodge

bored and uneducated shits will be shits, slap their parents for letting them go of the rails, i know all kids do stupid things but if only the kids were taught the value of life, sure let them blow up a letter box or something , but to put someones life at risk is another thing. some times i feel like going to the skate park with a jack hammer and ripping it up after seing what some of them do to the hood, then again if i did that i would be a dumb as them just older.

The whole problem is the laws are not tough enough, these kids know they are just gunna get a slap over the wrist even if they do kill someone. I don't know the answer as I at the moment have a wayward 14 year old daughter.
Give kids less "rights" and give parents more powers and rights. It was said in another thread this week, "This positive renforcement crap is to blame"
Bring back the days of cops bending a kid over and giving them a size 10 up the bum.

bindi · 22-04-2005, 08:14 AM

Yeah there was another incident in our local paper this week, some guy went under a rail bridge at the bottom of the Mountains. Now, this wasn't a car/pedestrian bridge, this was train tracks only. And thankfully didn't get seriously hurt, but very shaken. Morons.

Hey listen, you can't always blame parents, some of us try really hard but if a kid's going to disobey you and do whatever the hell they like, then what can you do?! There's not enough punishments you can threaten them with anymore... Cops have their hands tied, parents do too (no such thing as a sound thrashing anymore or DOCS get involved).

AUII_Forte · 22-04-2005, 09:54 AM

I have had this happen to me in my old AU! Drove under a railway overpass here in Dubbo and copped a nice sized piece of track ballast. It hit the bonnet and left a nice 2cm deep gouge then bounced up and put a huge crack in the windscreen! I am just thankful it hit the bonnet first, if the windscreen copped the full impact it would have shattered and the rock would have taken out my gf and our puppy that she was nursing at the time!

TheSneakiness · 22-04-2005, 09:55 AM

Whereabouts are you in Brissy blinkau?

I'll have to come up behind them and beat the sh*t outta them...

Twisted · 22-04-2005, 10:16 AM

I hate stupid people like that. Are these the same people that set fire to kittens and torture dogs? Just about the same IQ needed for the lot of it i reckon. I HATE driving under bridges/overpasses if i can see someone on top and always try to change lanes so i atleast dont go directly under them.

Duffman · 22-04-2005, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AUII_XLS_Ute

Whereabouts are you in Brissy blinkau?

I'll have to come up behind them and beat the sh*t outta them...

Unfortunately caboolture so I surpose you can expect that out here with some of the things you see people doing. Out near the show grounds here there is the highway that hasnt been connected yet and an overpass that you can't get off onto so if they did hit you there would be no way you could get there in time. Hopefully they where dumb enough to wait for the cops to come.

Im sure we have all done dumb things though before but endangering someone is completely different. The only problem is once they learn their lesson (hopefully the do) there is always someone to quickly replace them.

TheSneakiness · 22-04-2005, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blinkau

Im sure we have all done dumb things though before but endangering someone is completely different. The only problem is once they learn their lesson (hopefully the do) there is always someone to quickly replace them.

Amen to that. So true.

MITCHAY · 22-04-2005, 02:23 PM

i think these ppl r so stupid they prollly smash their own windows first then move to a bridge or wateva. i thought they put those sorta fences up everywhere. i live in ACT so not as much a prob here but we have plently of busy roads that could b at risk. i dont understand wat would compell sum1 to through shit over a bridge. i mean these ppl really are low (guess they progressed from spittn over the edge. and to think of the accidents that have happened and its still happening. also just as bad is ppl throwing crap outta cars. my mate had a jack thrown at his car and wasnt even near a bridge.

Thornie · 22-04-2005, 02:50 PM

happens here all the time in mildura and there is only one railway bridge! the native youths think it's fun to drink their metho then rock cars as they drive under

MITCHAY · 22-04-2005, 02:54 PM

and i bet it would b fun to rock their face if any ppl caught em doin it coz thats exactly wat can happen when rocks get thrown off bridges. more often then not its just damage thankfully (little of comfort to owners of damaged cars) but every now and again theres an accident. little shits with no lives and wont b headin anywhere in life.

Duffman · 22-04-2005, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

little shits with no lives and wont b headin anywhere in life.

There is one place they will be going... Centerlink! With the way they give out money now its more popular then ever. I tried getting money for going to uni... nope won't give you a cent if you want to study and get a job. Though they will give me heaps if I drop out and do nothing with my life. I think most people around here lately are taking the second option.

lotsy · 22-04-2005, 05:23 PM

Similar sort of thing happened to me and my other half we were driving somewhere around wollongong, little shits threw something at the car so my other half slammed on the brakes reversed her into the bus bay got out and chased after the little bastard. Got all the way to the kids house but no one else was home - wouldn't you know it.

ssj_jaypee · 22-04-2005, 05:26 PM

It would be hilarious if those little pricks ended up loosing balance and falling off the bridge, cause I'd run over their mangled bodies on the road, then chuck it in reverse and run them over again, maybe even do a burnout on them. :the_finge

22-04-2005, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Cops have their hands tied, parents do too (no such thing as a sound thrashing anymore or DOCS get involved).

or damn goody 2 shoe interfering %^&*s at school informing your teenage child that they don't have to go home if they don't want to, and the government will give them lots of money to allow them to leave home..... family is finally nearing some semblance of normality now, but it took years of fighting docs, the school, the police etc etc

HOON69 · 22-04-2005, 07:56 PM

remember all them years ago about that truck driver that got killed cause some tools threw a boulder (not a rock) through his windscreen.

they lowest scum on the earth and should be treated just as bad as a murderer in my opinion..

MITCHAY · 22-04-2005, 08:22 PM

yeah its good as murder. its pre meditated. they delibrately throw shit on the road. yeah these losers may get money but ill have a **** load more than them :P but then u pay taxes and these shits get money just so they can be little shits. my mum pays taxes and she coudlnt get any assistance for sumthn or rather. next thing u know bout 3 16yrs olds or wateva walk in and walk out wit a payout. its just bullshit. the government is almost fundin their ****ed up lives. and if u get payback at em u get into shit!!!

mr_efxr · 22-04-2005, 08:26 PM

It all comes down to discipline from birth, while the shits are learning. I say treat them like puppies, they shit in the wrong place or inside, put their entire face in it. The kid throws a rock and causes injury, injure the kid with any means possible (Be creative just like the dumb **** kid). Then once the kid is on the ground barely gripping onto life, whisper "AN EYE FOR AN EYE YOU F**KIN C**T".

banarcus · 22-04-2005, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AUII_Forte

I have had this happen to me in my old AU! Drove under a railway overpass here in Dubbo and copped a nice sized piece of track ballast. It hit the bonnet and left a nice 2cm deep gouge then bounced up and put a huge crack in the windscreen! I am just thankful it hit the bonnet first, if the windscreen copped the full impact it would have shattered and the rock would have taken out my gf and our puppy that she was nursing at the time!

The same thing happened to me back in 1992. A butt head threw a chuck of track ballast and it went straight through my old zone toughened MK1 esky windscreen. It got me in the face and put a second mouth on my face which required 20 stiches to repair. We caught the clown and dished out some vigilante justice on him. I've still got the rock in the shed.

5speedeb · 22-04-2005, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssj_jaypee

It would be hilarious if those little pricks ended up loosing balance and falling off the bridge, cause I'd run over their mangled bodies on the road, then chuck it in reverse and run them over again, maybe even do a burnout on them. :the_finge

hahaha to that but i wouldnt run them over

:

Feathers · 22-04-2005, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by freddys

hahaha to that but i wouldnt run them over

:

No, me either, I wouldn't want to damage my car.

:

OLS108 · 23-04-2005, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swanny

I've heard of this happening on the Deagon Deviation, from overpasses on the M1, and on the Busways. It seems to be mostly kids/teenagers, who mustn't realize the possible effect of what they are doing. Stupid people, I pray they get a brain, before they kill someone!

Edit: The locations mentioned above are in Bris Vegas, aka Brisneyland.

iver heard of it happening there too, its scary to think teens are doing this without thinking out the possible outcomes.

460cixy · 23-04-2005, 02:02 PM

i had a bunch of emty tinnyss thrown off an over pass here in canberra was well ****ed off ****in morons also had some kids throwing water baloons at cars from the bushes i got those little bastards dont think thay will do it again i had one of them crying.

: