Fromalls Street, Toowoomba

Peter Cremasco

To the tosspot who decided it'd be fun to string baling twine across the
road on Fromalls Street last night - think how much fun it would be,
serving time for recklessly endangering human life. You WILL get caught,
sunshine - and you'd better hope it's the police, not the neighbours.

Skewer

Peter Cremasco wrote:
> To the tosspot who decided it'd be fun to string baling twine across the
> road on Fromalls Street last night - think how much fun it would be,
> serving time for recklessly endangering human life. You WILL get caught,
> sunshine - and you'd better hope it's the police, not the neighbours.

Pete.C

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&...reet,+Toowoomba

From Google Maps the street doesn't look like it's a shortcut to
anywhere in particular. The eastern part even end in a court.

So, unless the numbnut who set it was trying to hurt some local
miscreant (on a trail bike?) who uses that street regularly, I'd be
looking at one of the neighbors (probably their kids).

Did you consider letterboxing all the houses near the trap? Include a
sample of the twine, pointing out the danger it presented and asking
them to make a point of raising the danger to their offspring.

I did a similar thing when there was an explosion of teenagers on
"monkey bikes" on my street. Letterboxing a copy of a police advisory
pointing out the illegality of the bikes (and the charges that could be
laid) saw them disappear from the area within a month.
--
Pete.B

Skewer

Peter Cremasco wrote:
> To the tosspot who decided it'd be fun to string baling twine across the
> road on Fromalls Street last night - think how much fun it would be,
> serving time for recklessly endangering human life. You WILL get caught,
> sunshine - and you'd better hope it's the police, not the neighbours.

Pete.C

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&...reet,+Toowoomba

From Google Maps the street doesn't look like it's a shortcut to
anywhere in particular. The eastern part even end in a court.

So, unless the numbnut who set it was trying to hurt some local
miscreant (on a trail bike?) who uses that street regularly, I'd be
looking at one of the neighbors (probably their kids).

Did you consider letterboxing all the houses near the trap? Include a
sample of the twine, pointing out the danger it presented and asking
them to make a point of raising the danger to their offspring.

I did a similar thing when there was an explosion of teenagers on
"monkey bikes" on my street. letterboxing a copy of a police advisory
pointing out the illegality of the bikes (and the charges that could be
laid) saw them disappear from the area within a month.
--
Pete.B

Campagenstein

"Peter Cremasco" <Firstname.Lastname@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:63fdirF2723g9U1@mid.individual.net...
> To the tosspot who decided it'd be fun to string baling twine across the
> road on Fromalls Street last night - think how much fun it would be,
> serving time for recklessly endangering human life. You WILL get caught,
> sunshine - and you'd better hope it's the police, not the neighbours.



This has to be one of the deadliest pranks I have ever heard of. In fact, I
refuse to believe that this was done without considering the consequences.

That is a guerilla-type tactic and should be reported to the police as it
was pure malice aforethought.

What I really would not like to see is this practice made public - idiots
everywhere may want to rush out and try it because a cyclist slowed them
down once.

Scary stuff - I hope you get to the bottom of this quickly.

C-stein.

PS one and all - I used to post questions here a year or so ago and the
regulars here helped me refurbish my old Apollo into "Campagenstein" and
it has been going very well since so I feel gratitude to the contributors to
this group daily as I ride to work. Thanks again to you all.

C.

Peter Cremasco

Skewer wrote:
> Peter Cremasco wrote:
>> To the tosspot who decided it'd be fun to string baling twine across
>> the road on Fromalls Street last night - think how much fun it would
>> be, serving time for recklessly endangering human life. You WILL get
>> caught, sunshine - and you'd better hope it's the police, not the
>> neighbours.
>
> Pete.C
>
> http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&...reet,+Toowoomba
>
>
> From Google Maps the street doesn't look like it's a shortcut to
> anywhere in particular. The eastern part even end in a court.
>
> So, unless the numbnut who set it was trying to hurt some local
> miscreant (on a trail bike?) who uses that street regularly, I'd be
> looking at one of the neighbors (probably their kids).
>
> Did you consider letterboxing all the houses near the trap? Include a
> sample of the twine, pointing out the danger it presented and asking
> them to make a point of raising the danger to their offspring.
>
> I did a similar thing when there was an explosion of teenagers on
> "monkey bikes" on my street. Letterboxing a copy of a police advisory
> pointing out the illegality of the bikes (and the charges that could be
> laid) saw them disappear from the area within a month.
> --

I hadn't thought about the letterbox drop idea. It has merit.

Local constabulary was informed, but all they could do was record it for
future reference.