bricked

[Spaceflower]

sunderland-seaham train bricked around grangetown t'other day

 

[Pathfinder]

sunderland-seaham train bricked around grangetown t'other day

Doesnt surprise me in the slightest william,I've had things thrown at my train,I've been shot at with an air rifle,I know its a minority but these scum will end up causing a major incident and when they are caught the defence lawyers,parents etc will say "he's not a bad lad,but theres nothing for them to do around here"!!!! UTTER UTTER BOLLOCKS !!! Some of these people will be 16plus years old with the mentality "Cant work Wont work" but all they want to do is cause mayhem and let the state pay them to do it !!!! rant over :-x :-x :-x

 

[ChrisCooper]

I do wonder if it will take a fatality of a driver or passenger to get people to realise how serious this sort of thing is, and to give tougher penalties (in America they have a crime of "endangering a mass transit vehicle" or something similar, which would apply to cases like this). The biggest risk really are those who brick or shoot buses, since there is always the risk the driver will get hit and loose control. A friend of mine who drives buses was a few years ago driving a heavily loaded double decker (think it was a school bus) through a fairly rough estate, and someone took a shot at it with an air rifle which hit and smashed the drivers side window. At this point he was going down a quite steep hill with a T-Junction onto a busy road at the bottom. Had he been hit and incapacitated it could have been very serious with the bus running out of control down the hill, and if it made it to the bottom without crashing off into the houses on either side or even flipping over, smashing straight into the traffic at the bottom and probably carrying on into the houses beyond. I hate to think of the possible fatalities.
The other one that always worries me is a serious derailment cause by vandalism of some kind, which again could lead to many fatalities.

 

[Spaceflower]

I do wonder if it will take a fatality of a driver or passenger to get people to realise how serious this sort of thing is,

Probably not. You dont need to tell us the potential consequences of such actions, we already know. To get into the mind of such people is pointless, for their motives will be various, from kids getting kicks to skitzophrenics assassinating demons. We all run the risk of being involved, but perhaps the most important driver is an increasingly disassociated and excluded society in which no-one wants to take responsibilty or blame but at the same time expect others to do so.

 

[ChrisCooper]

I was talking mainly in relation to those involved in the law who don't tend to take these things seriously enough. I mean those who decide that people who brick trains and buses should get light sentances, more reflecting the damage and the disruption that thankfully is usually the worst they do, rarther than realising the potential consequences. There is also the issue of the people who actually do these things. Whilst I'm sure there is an element who wouldn't care, I expect quite a few do it without realising the consequences (I bet most people have done something at some point in their lives that afterwards they have realised could have had serious consequences for themselves or others, and remember these are often not the brightest people we're talking about). Oviously anyone with common sence knows the potential consequences of throwing bricks or other similar objects at any moving vehicle, but sadly a lot of people lack common sence, and often it's not just those who commit the crimes, but also those responsible for sentancing them (afterall, a lot of these judges probably havn't used public transport in their life).

 

[87015]

The other one that always worries me is a serious derailment cause by vandalism of some kind, which again could lead to many fatalities.

There was a 303 on the Weymess Bay branch derailed by vandals (concrete blocks on line) which killed (IIRC) the driver and one passenger.
I think bricking incidents have declined recently, but it could perhaps be that I'm just not out as much. Nothing like Ireland however where it appears to be a national sport hock: