Bid to curb rock throwing

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Search for local vagrant after latest Durban rock-throwing incident

South Africa
Search for local vagrant after latest Durban rock-throwing incident
24 January 2018 - 14:11 By Nivashni Nair

A rock thrown at a passing car on the N3 near the Brickfield Road off-ramp on Wednesday morning landed on the unoccupied front passenger seat.

KwaZulu-Natal police spokeswoman Captain Nqobile Gwala said a 37-year-old woman was driving her Mini Cooper on the N3 near the Durban Christian Centre when a rock shattered the vehicle's windscreen.

"The vehicle was damaged. The motorist did not sustain any injuries‚" she said.

More at : https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...t-after-latest-durban-rock-throwing-incident/

 

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Durban cops arrest two men for rock-throwing

Durban Metro police officers on Wednesday arrested two suspected rock throwers on a bridge that runs over the N2 freeway near Riverhorse Valley.

Spokesman‚ Superintendent Sewpersad Parboo‚ confirmed that the pair had been detained by members of the city police’s K9 Unit.

Parboo said the pair were handed over to police from Greenwood Park.

More at : https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...durban-cops-arrest-two-men-for-rock-throwing/

 

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Rock-throwing shakes up two grannies

Durban - Two Durban grandmothers were left shaken after a rock, thrown from a pedestrian bridge, landed on the bonnet of the car they were travelling in and bounced on to the windscreen.

On Friday afternoon, lifelong friends Sara Greenspan and Marliene Rogoss were on their way from Westville and travelling along the N3 towards the Durban Central Business District when the incident occurred. Rogoss was driving.

Greenspan said they had passed the Tollgate Bridge over the N3 and were travelling towards a pedestrian bridge when she heard a loud bang.

They were on one of their usual trips on a sunny morning.

More at : https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/rock-throwing-shakes-up-two-grannies-12905612

 

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Golf 7 GTI sunroof saves man from rock throwing

Durban - The latest victim of rock throwing has the sunroof of his brand new Golf 7 GTI to thank for escaping without a scratch.

Farhaad Mohamed, 45, was on the way home from work on Saturday afternoon when a rock was thrown onto his barely two month old vehicle from a bridge above Higginson Highway.

“Had I been even one second slower that boulder would have hit my windscreen and I would have been gone,” he said on Sunday.

Mohamed said he realised what had happened only some time later as he had continued to drive on after hearing a loud bang.

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[Sean008]

Feckin ridiculous.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

Madness this... How on earth have no measures been put in place to stop this?

 

[ForceFate]

Another 1

 

[ForceFate]

A Johannesburg motorist has become the latest victim of a rock-throwing incident.

Khadeeja Gani lost her sunroof when a rock was thrown from a bridge on the Ben Schoeman highway on Sunday night.

"I was coming from Pretoria. My dad was driving in front of me and my brother-in-law was behind me. I was in the middle lane and as we approached the Olifantsfontein bridge‚ I heard a loud bang‚" said Gani.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...rled-off-bridge-crashes-through-cars-sunroof/

 

[DominionZA]

My wife had a rock thrown at her jeep yesterday afternoon. Lost a rear window.
R21 near Oliesfontein.

 

[grok]

Africa seldom disappoints, what an absolute joke this place has become..

 

[ForceFate]

South Africa seldom disappoints, what an absolute joke this place has become..

FTFY

 

[RedViking]

Why haven't they put these .......... in cages yet.? Or at least then put a cage over the bridges. Useless government....

 

[dunkyd]

Why haven't they put these .......... in cages yet.? Or at least then put a cage over the bridges. Useless government....

4673 bridges in SA.... do the maths.

 

[RedViking]

4673 bridges in SA.... do the maths.

20, 50, 4000. Makes no difference to them.

 

[ForceFate]

Why haven't they put these .......... in cages yet.? Or at least then put a cage over the bridges. Useless government....

They must cage all bridges then. Not feasible in my opinion.

 

[RedViking]

They must cage all bridges then. Not feasible in my opinion.

Start with the ones in the 'hot spots'. Why not?

 

[Lupus]

Sheesh it's becoming a pandemic, what exactly are these morons planning to achieve? You might get a cellphone and maybe some cash? WTF!!! This is a symptom of a really inept government and people with such callous regards for human life, I normally don't call on the death penalty but it needs to come back. They need to have Casspirs rolling through the streets again putting fear back into these "people" because I'm sorry you cannot call them people when they act like this.

 

[RedViking]

Sheesh it's becoming a pandemic, what exactly are these morons planning to achieve? You might get a cellphone and maybe some cash? WTF!!! This is a symptom of a really inept government and people with such callous regards for human life, I normally don't call on the death penalty but it needs to come back. They need to have Casspirs rolling through the streets again putting fear back into these "people" because I'm sorry you cannot call them people when they act like this.

Death penalty + Corrupt Government = Criminals won't be the ones dying

 

[Lupus]

Start with the ones in the 'hot spots'. Why not?

Caging the bridges won't work, they will just cut through them. If they only put as much effort into actually fixing things they put into trying to steal and rob people this country would actually benefit. But no they'd spend days cutting at a fence, cage, gate to get maybe a few thousands rand. Nothing is really impenetrable to them, they are like vermin they will always find a way through.

 

[Lupus]

Death penalty + Corrupt Government = Criminals won't be the ones dying

Normal citizens are already dying because of them? There is already a death penalty and it's not effecting the criminals at all. There needs to be something that can strike fear into these things.