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- From: ajw@squid.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Andrew Waugh)
- Subject: Re: Vandalism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.213201.20429@mel.dit.csiro.au>
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- Organization: CSIRO, Division of Information Technology, Melbourne
- References: <1992Nov16.021144.7958@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:32:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.021144.7958@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> agrcjb@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Chris Bell) writes:
- >On its second trip, someone threw a tin of blue paint over the loco,
- >probably from one of the overbridges. The loco was running tender first,
- >and the tender copped most of the paint, right over the right-hand side.
- >
- >Vandalism to the local electrics is one thing (and their is plenty of it
- >on the Hurstbridge line)...
-
- As I said to the official supervising the shunting at Heidelberg
- afterwards, they were lucky they weren't throwing stones. There seems
- to be one or two cretins on this section of line who enjoy throwing
- things.
-
- I was in a suburban train approaching Macleod (on the same section of
- line) recently when someone -- probably the same someone -- threw a
- stone right through a window. I looked up to see a cloud of glass sweep
- through the other end of the carriage. Fortunately the glass is
- safety glass which doesn't have sharp edges and mostly stays in the
- window. But it still gave a nasty shock to the people sitting at
- that end of the carriage.
-
- I've been in other trains when a loud 'bang' indicated that something,
- presumably a rock, had hit the steel sides of the carriage and not
- the window.
-
- From the splatter marks on the tender of K153, it appeared that the
- engine was running tender first when the paint was thrown. If a
- rock had been thrown, one of the engine crew could easily have
- been injured. The windows on the rolling stock used (traditional
- wooden bodied cars) is, I believe, just normal glass (David would
- know...). A stone through that doesn't bear thinking about,
- particularly as the train was full of small children.
-
- The sooner they catch those bastards, the better.
-
- andrew waugh
-