Melburnians are still trying to make sense of the latest tragedy in the CBD after an out-of-control car drove down Bourke Street, …
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"Seems to me those that aren't part of the police department but are in the area business owners people that care people that want to see their community healthy need to come together organize and make sure folks like this can't do what they're doing it's not hard if you get your heads together humans are amazing when they come together for the right cause and their intentions are pure Read more" I'm so impressed by their commitment to the game. True dedication.
Keep your eyes open at all times! Crazy folks are living among us, and we would not know when one would snap and strike out!!! Locking up and heavy medication aren't the solution.
take care on the roads, especially CBD areas where there is normally traffic anyway so there's not much opportunity to speed up. Incidents like these appear very cabled, it's on show due to an agenda.
Look at all the money Jeff Kennet saved putting mental patients in the streets. Then all the mental patients the "recreational" drug industry created making us a top ranking drug addicted state. Then get crimes classed as "mental health" incudents so a rosier picture is painted by ignoring so much crime. Our "nothing we can do about it" Police at work encouraged by the criminal justice system. Expect to see more of these types of tragedies , but on a lesser scale daily. Planning by government for more "look over there" moments to distract us. Any organisations we know who might have blood on their hands pushing their views?
If someone was running down the street slashing passers-by with a knife or firing a gun at them , officers would use deadly force . A car is no different , when driven recklessly, it is a deadly weapon . Police should be allowed , make that instructed, to use corresponding measures . Use the pit maneuver yes , but officers on foot should be allowed to fire at the driver too. Whatever it takes , prioritise the welfare of the general public over that of an active criminal . It's the reasonable thing to do.
It seems like people who commit these crimes demonstrate themselves to be very, very unwell over and over again but the system just fails to act in any meaningful way to intervene. Gargasoulas is a perfect example. The ABC did a full story covering how utterly dangerous and obviously insane he was and he was repeatedly allowed back onto the streets. When it came time to determine why, everyone who could have intervened threw up their hands and insisted it wasn't their fault. And it isn't just attacks like these, Jill Magher's murderer is another lunatic who should never have been wandering around preying on people but was because of a completely dysfunctional system that apparently cannot determine a clear and present danger when presented with one.
Politicly correct garbage again. We need to be tough, no excuse. Hiding behind mental issues, allowing these people to take lives or injurer people because they have a problem. The law needs to get tough, real tough. Enough is enough.
It's horrible that this happened again. Today I just returned to WA from my first trip to Melbourne. Compared with Perth, the Melbourne CBD has a liveliness and atmosphere that Perth doesn't come close to matching. It feels like a city you can simply spend time in for no particular reason.
Does the technology for retractable bollards exist. Placing them at strategic locations along the tram tracks around the pedestrianised areas could be a solution.
As a Queenslander, Melbourne seems like a foreign country to me. I don't think it's a safe place to be and I wouldn't ever go there. The absolute state of VIctoria is disgraceful.
The rate of crime continues to drop in Victoria. All the police statistics are easily accessible on the internet. You are all suffering from familiarity bias. We really need to teach this stuff in school. Making decisions based on fiction means you lose. 🤦
"Seems to me those that aren't part of the police department but are in the area business owners people that care people that want to see their community healthy need to come together organize and make sure folks like this can't do what they're doing it's not hard if you get your heads together humans are amazing when they come together for the right cause and their intentions are pure
Read more" I'm so impressed by their commitment to the game. True dedication.
Keep your eyes open at all times! Crazy folks are living among us, and we would not know when one would snap and strike out!!! Locking up and heavy medication aren't the solution.
Ban cars, seems to be the idiotic reaction for everything else.
Ban cars in the CBD 🙂
take care on the roads, especially CBD areas where there is normally traffic anyway so there's not much opportunity to speed up. Incidents like these appear very cabled, it's on show due to an agenda.
"Tougher penalties especially for youth crime we are too soft" I wish I could've been there in person. The atmosphere must've been electric!
Why not put pop up bollards in the non car section that activate when a vehicle enters to trap it immediately
One problem with this: the cafe owner (in 2018) was stabbed by a Muslim.
“Religious extremist” could mean a member of any religion.
Bad blood in the genepool, about time we did a flush.
"Tougher penalties especially for youth crime we are too soft" I'm on the same page! This video is a masterpiece.
Look at all the money Jeff Kennet saved putting mental patients in the streets.
Then all the mental patients the "recreational" drug industry created making us a top ranking drug addicted state.
Then get crimes classed as "mental health" incudents so a rosier picture is painted by ignoring so much crime.
Our "nothing we can do about it" Police at work encouraged by the criminal justice system.
Expect to see more of these types of tragedies , but on a lesser scale daily.
Planning by government for more "look over there" moments to distract us.
Any organisations we know who might have blood on their hands pushing their views?
Of course, you could just ban the cars. Full stop. They're a liability that we can't bear any more.
How about some cops!
What’s a violent vehicle?
What more can be done to prevent deadly rampages in Melbourne's CBD? That's easy, "remove" repeat offenders from society.
"Tougher penalties especially for youth crime we are too soft" good bro 🥰
Only thing that can stop a bad guy w/ a car is a good guy w/ a car.
If someone was running down the street slashing passers-by with a knife or firing a gun at them , officers would use deadly force .
A car is no different , when driven recklessly, it is a deadly weapon . Police should be allowed , make that instructed, to use corresponding measures . Use the pit maneuver yes , but officers on foot should be allowed to fire at the driver too.
Whatever it takes , prioritise the welfare of the general public over that of an active criminal . It's the reasonable thing to do.
I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
Increaae mental health funding.
It seems like people who commit these crimes demonstrate themselves to be very, very unwell over and over again but the system just fails to act in any meaningful way to intervene. Gargasoulas is a perfect example. The ABC did a full story covering how utterly dangerous and obviously insane he was and he was repeatedly allowed back onto the streets. When it came time to determine why, everyone who could have intervened threw up their hands and insisted it wasn't their fault. And it isn't just attacks like these, Jill Magher's murderer is another lunatic who should never have been wandering around preying on people but was because of a completely dysfunctional system that apparently cannot determine a clear and present danger when presented with one.
CBD = Central Business District, for anyone like me who kept wondering what this has to do with cannabidiol.
Gotta ban those assault cars
They should sell permits for BBQ’s.
Ban cars
What more ?! lock the gates !
Lollll Gargasoulas was screaming that "Allah is the true God" and identified as Muslim, yet Islam had nothing to do with it… 🤣
Politicly correct garbage again. We need to be tough, no excuse. Hiding behind mental issues, allowing these people to take lives or injurer people because they have a problem. The law needs to get tough, real tough. Enough is enough.
If I go into the city I will run from bollard to bollard.
make everyone roll around in those big bubble things
It's horrible that this happened again. Today I just returned to WA from my first trip to Melbourne. Compared with Perth, the Melbourne CBD has a liveliness and atmosphere that Perth doesn't come close to matching. It feels like a city you can simply spend time in for no particular reason.
Does the technology for retractable bollards exist. Placing them at strategic locations along the tram tracks around the pedestrianised areas could be a solution.
Motive? nobody interviewed the perpetrators. To solve the problem, address the root cause, not the symptoms, like installing bollards.
Nothing can be done to stop mental people, doing mental things , better than another out on bail should be in jail story
Toughen up on penalties and deportation for non Australian criminals.
ABC is a puzzle how it sometimes allows comments.
As a Queenslander, Melbourne seems like a foreign country to me. I don't think it's a safe place to be and I wouldn't ever go there. The absolute state of VIctoria is disgraceful.
Ban cars
We all know the answer but everyone is afraid to say it.
The rate of crime continues to drop in Victoria. All the police statistics are easily accessible on the internet. You are all suffering from familiarity bias. We really need to teach this stuff in school. Making decisions based on fiction means you lose. 🤦
2:49 A religious extremist? Care to elaborate?