5/18/2023 0 Comments Downimg man kids threw rocks![]() “It’s sickening… It could have hit one of the kids,” Ms Olislaegers said. Lisa Olislaegers feared her three young children nearly didn’t make it home after the rock was pelted from an overpass in Leeming. Just two weeks following this incident, a South Lake mother became victim to a similar rock-throwing attack, in which a huge boulder was hurled through her windscreen on the Kwinana Freeway. Just Two Weeks Later: Mother Fears for Life in Western Australia Freeway Rock Attack On Saturday morning, police questioned the offenders, and by the afternoon, had charged them with 14 counts of unlawful act or omission with intent to harm (endangering life, health or safety or any person) as well as 14 counts each of criminal damage. Police Dog Mako was deployed and soon tracked down the two boys via scent, who were hiding in a shed at a nearby house in Cockburn at 12am on 6 January. He was taken by ambulance to Fiona Stanley Hospital, and although suffering grazing and bruises, luckily did not undergo life-threatening injuries. The rock struck a 55-year-old man in the chest who was sitting in the front passenger seat. Several vehicles were damaged, with one rock, the size of a large football, smashing through the windscreen of a Toyota Camry. The rocks hit more than a dozen cars and trucks along the 80km/h section of the freeway.Īround 11:30pm, police received 14 reports of the rocks being thrown from the western side of the carriageway, which lasted for 15 minutes. In the late hours of 4 January 2019, it is alleged two 16-year-old boys began throwing rocks at vehicles travelling north on the Kwinana Freeway over a fence set up near Berrigan Drive in Cockburn Central. January 2019: Two Perth Boys Charged with Throwing Rocks at 14 Cars Over a decade later, the extremely dangerous and idiotic act continues to take place, risking the lives of innocent drivers. The rock crushed the car’s side window, struck the 22-year-old in the head, and shattered her skull.Ī 25-year-old man was given a four-year jail sentence for the attack.Īnd with that, the law on throwing rocks at vehicles was amended by the NSW government to make this illegal – whether or not the rock hits the vehicle or not. The new laws came into force after police interrogated three teenagers following a rock-throwing incident from an overpass in Sydney, prior to which, much debate had ensued in parliament after another incident in which a rock-thrower caused a woman permanent brain damage. We’re ready to call our security company and invest in a camera, but I was curious from other residents if that has been found to help deter issues like these.Back in 2008, the NSW government introduced tough new laws to make it illegal to throw rocks at vehicles or boats. After all this and the broken window, it’s apparent that the sport is still fun, even if (especially if?) the house is occupied. After the French-door incident, we made sure to leave our porch light on and put up “No Trespassing” signs that make it pretty clear people live here. The assumption last summer was that it had been a neighborhood sport to chuck rocks at the old abandoned house, and the “kids” thought the house was still unoccupied. We are aware that our house sat abandoned for many years before we moved in. until we discovered more rocks on our back deck last week and a broken window upstairs. After filing a police report and having to pay to replace the glass in the door, we were pretty glad that the rock-pelting stopped (we assumed that they got scared by the fact they actually accomplished something)…. In May they finally hit the jackpot and broke the glass on one of our French doors. We’ve had issues since March with the neighbor kids (we think they’re kids, we’ve never seen the culprits) throwing rocks at our house.
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