Not happy!

Driving home from Rochdale down after buying a new house some teenagers* thought it would be quite amusing to throw some stones from the motorway bridge just before jct 4 of the M61 - Unfortunately I saw them too late to react. After stopping at the services to check out the damage (as there was a very loud thud as the stone hit) Its has marked my windscreen and chipped the paint on the ridge at the top of the windscreen.

Do teenagers* these days have no respect for anybodies belongings or understand that there actions could of caused a serious crash???

:mad:

Damo

* This is not a generalisation that all teenagers have no respect as I know some can be nice and show a lot of respect to other people.

sorry to hear bout that mate, hope it isn't too costly.

I would call them brain dead little ****s, do they not learn what damage can be done by throwing things at cars from bridges?

Edit, that was meant to say tw@ts and I feel better now I can see it

Kids Stones and any bridges-really annoying but at least you're OK

a few years ago a friend had a lucky escape when some kid or kids threw a rock from a railway bridge over a road-car was badly damaged ,thankfully she and children weren't.

The other week i was driving along the a55 when i spotted a gaggle of kids standing on a bridge over the road

As i went under the bridge a big snotty glob of spit hit my windscreen

I was happy that it wasnt a stone

if it was i would of turned of at the junction went up to the bridge and thrown the little turds off it

i hope when these little feckers grow up and splash out their hard earned on a motor some sprog lashes a brick through their windscreen

i'm a train driver

my colleagues tell me that this has been happening to trains since steam days

several drivers have been very seriously injured & a few even killed

by the objects shot / thrown or hung off bridges

i wondered when it would spread to the roads too

Yeah I've been on "Intercity's" where windows in the carriage have been smashed by kids at the track side but thankfully no-one has been seriously injured. Been happening on road bridges for a while now but thankfully the worst I've had from kids on bridges is a wave

Chris

Plenty of bridges are caged to stop the little darlings throwing stuff off them

Councils may be liable to the damage if someone harms your car if the havent been arsed to cage the bridge

just a thought

I was once on a train where a door window was shot out. We were maybe 5 minutes out of Waterloo, and this was, I suppose, about 10 years ago. The bullet lodged in the wooden frame of the opposite door.

1 of my colleagues recently hit a washing machine

that had been hung from a bridge at windscreen level

luckily he saw it just in time & dived to the cab floor

otherwise he'd have been killed.

you really have to wonder what goes through the minds of the people

you really have to wonder what goes through the minds of the people

The only answer i can think of

is that they know that their is no real punishment for their antics

So they wander around causing mayhem knowing that if they get gripped

not much will happen to them

Time the law was tightened up so that people who do such stupid things are charged with suitably serious offences such as attempted murder or murder. Sentence to be long or very long.

Some @sshole yesterday was calling for the age of criminal culpability to be increased! Surely, with little thugs as young as 7 and 8 causing chaos, surely it is time to reduce it.

This countrys people are severely trying my patience.

Chris

Some @sshole yesterday was calling for the age of criminal culpability to be increased!

Absolutely ridiculous isn't it! why not just tell them they can do as they please and there will be no penalty whatsoever.

This countrys people are severely trying my patience. Chris

Agreed, this country seems to be populated by nothing more than total f*cking idiots, the first lot are the PC brigade who dream up these ideas, the second lot is sadly the rest of us whom allow the PC brigade to still breathe, let alone voice there opinions.

Damoh2k1 , i would inform the local plod about this , telling them which bridge the objects were dropped from , that way they have a record of the incident , a few yeas ago a van driver was killed on the New Ferry by-pass on the Wirral , some pr1ck threw a car battery off a predestrian bridge , went straight into the cab , made bit of a mess , iirc the person who threw it was caught and charged

i'm a train driver

Wow ......................That's 2 of us..

It's happened around here too. My dad had a bucket load (yes a bucket load!) of gravel, mud and sand dropped on his car from a high bridge. Luckily their aim wasn't too good and only about a third of it hit the car, but if that landed on the windscreen it would almost certainly have smashed it and probably caused an accident.

I would have no sleepless nights whatsoever after throwing the little ****'s off the bridge......

It makes a strong argument for roof mounted RPG launchers in the options list

I see alot of youngsters on bridges and most of them are just watching the traffic/waving at the traffic. but it only takes one with a brick to kill someone.

Time the law was tightened up so that people who do such stupid things are charged with suitably serious offences such as attempted murder or murder. Sentence to be long or very long.

Some @sshole yesterday was calling for the age of criminal culpability to be increased! Surely, with little thugs as young as 7 and 8 causing chaos, surely it is time to reduce it.

This countrys people are severely trying my patience.

Chris

I agree with this completely. But it's catching the little scummers, and then 'proving it.'

Agreed, this country seems to be populated by nothing more than total f*cking idiots, the first lot are the PC brigade who dream up these ideas, the second lot is sadly the rest of us whom allow the PC brigade to still breathe, let alone voice there opinions.

I have tried and tried to counterbalance the opinions of the PC brigade, however, they are in the dominant minority and are able to manipulate the press and media to the effect of almost completely eradicating freedom of speech in England.

Chris

ISTR that there's been at least one case involving a brick and a truck, where the little was caught, and actually convicted of manslaughter.

I've heard of someone being killed as the result of this also.

Count yourself lucky it wasnt a paving slab like the one kids recently threw off a bridge at a car in tamworth :eek: Luckily it landed in the enply paggenger seat but the driver still got a lot of glass in his eyes etc.

i believe that if someone, no matter of age has commited or acted like an adult, they should be tried like one.......

When I did an advance driving course a few years back, I was told always beware of anyone on standing on motorway (or other road) bridges, of course they maybe innocent but Im always a bit wary though.

A section of passenger railway that ran past a council estate was know as 'Brick Ally' due to amount of stones etc thrown at trains. I was on a train once and one of the windows had a stone or brick thrown at it in the next carriage, thankfully the window didnt break and and no one was sitting next to it . However the local transport police did have a crack down and caught some of the sh*ts.