Help track down vandals!

Joined: 02 Oct 2006

VANDALS!!

Just received this information on an internet newsletter. This stuff makes my blood boil so let's try to help so we can make the idiots who did this accountable! If anybody can help please post up everything you know. I will forward information to the relevant people. Thanks.

No wonder Parks Etc want to close places down.

Many of your readers will be familiar with the Red Bluff camp ground on the SA/Vic Border Track at the southern edge of the Big Desert Wilderness, this site has been developed and maintained by the Wimmera 4WD Club and Parks Vic over the last 10 or 12 years. Most visitors treat the site well, removing their rubbish and generally looking after it.

Therefore the news that the area has been desecrated will come as a shock to most people. A group who camped at Red Bluff last Saturday night reported the damage to Parks Vic and the Wimmera 4WD Club. The damage included knocking over fencing and vegetation, cutting down trees (not even to use as fire wood), digging of a big hole, ripping up the area doing 'circle work' with vehicles and motor bikes, broken glass and rubbish scattered around.

The party who reported the damage have also provided a number of photo’s of what this group got up to

The evidence indicates that damage occurred between Friday 20th June and last Saturday 28th June. If any readers have visited the Red Bluff camp in that time I would like to hear from them so we can narrow down time at which the damage was done. I think the weekend 21/22nd of June is the likely date.

Yours in Sustainable 4WDing

Dick Gill

[img]http://www.westprint.com.au/Friday%20Five/redbluff.htm[/img]

Joined: 02 Oct 2006

Sorry, photos didn't come up. They are located at the web address at the bottom of my post. Any ideas how to show these photos? They show just how bad the damage is.

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

http://www.westprint.com.au/Friday%20Five/redbluff.htm

Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Location: Maryborough

Were they digging a fricken grave or something cussing

Joined: 02 Oct 2006

Thanks Bruce.

Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Location: melbourne victoria australia

Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Location: fraser coast

thats a nissan navara mudflap in the fire ring. Confused

thats disgracful, how can these idiots think chopping a tree down is fun, hey i'm sure tree loppers would be happy to give them the axe.
as for the hole wtf Question

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

Why on earth would they have cut down the tree..?

Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Location: syd

what pigs

why would you do such a thing Mad

hope you find the pigs that done it Exclamation

Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Location: western shitney

was the tree alive or dead?

Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

Forget the tree, why the hell would you dig a hole like that?

Joined: 29 May 2003 Location: hidin frm da wiminz!!!

it was a wild weekend i tell yah...

Ended up burying the neighbours cats elsewhere. them damn water bottles just wouldnt blow up, dodge the navara dion donuts was a classic as always, and there wasnt much firewood around so next visit that tree will be dry and we will be warm.

p.s. sorry we forgot to fill the whole back in!

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

Ben wrote:

Forget the tree, why the hell would you dig a hole like that?

fire pit or cookin a hungy in?

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

bogged wrote:

Ben wrote:

Forget the tree, why the hell would you dig a hole like that?

fire pit or cookin a hungy in?

Hoping to find a Surf?

Joined: 02 Oct 2006

bogged wrote:

Ben wrote:

Forget the tree, why the hell would you dig a hole like that?

fire pit or cookin a hungy in?

OK, so we're looking for a Navara-driving Kiwi!!

Is that milk bottle from Safeway or Woolworths? Might tell us if they're Victorian or South Australian.

Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Location: Check your six.

plasnart wrote:

bogged wrote:

Ben wrote:

Forget the tree, why the hell would you dig a hole like that?

fire pit or cookin a hungy in?

OK, so we're looking for a Navara-driving Kiwi!!

Is that milk bottle from Safeway or Woolworths? Might tell us if they're Victorian or South Australian.

Send it to forensics, Jack.

Joined: 02 Oct 2006

RoadNazi wrote:

plasnart wrote:

bogged wrote:

Ben wrote:

Forget the tree, why the hell would you dig a hole like that?

fire pit or cookin a hungy in?

OK, so we're looking for a Navara-driving Kiwi!!

Is that milk bottle from Safeway or Woolworths? Might tell us if they're Victorian or South Australian.

Send it to forensics, Jack.

I wish you boys did have the time and budget to investigate sh1t like this. 4x4 drivers have got a bad enough image problem with the general public these days even though the vast majority of us deep down are acutally nature-lovers. That's why we do what we do - to enjoy the bloody bush, not ruin it!!!

Wish I had a gun and a badge for a day. Twisted Evil

RN can I borrow yours? I promise I'll only flash the badge real quick so they wont see your details!!!

Flash BANG!

Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Location: Riverina

At risk of getting flamed Rolling Eyes

Whats so bad about the dohnuts?

Joined: 02 Oct 2006

RockyF75 wrote:

At risk of getting flamed Rolling Eyes

Whats so bad about the dohnuts?

Mate, there's nothing wrong with doing doughnuts if they're being done on private property. Don't f@#king do them in areas that belong to all of us! Not everyone gets pleasure from seeing the landscape torn up unnecessarily.

People travel to these places to enjoy the landscape, wildlife, serenity, etc. If people want to fang around in their vehicles like maniacs, they should go to a place that caters for that kind of driving.

Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Location: Riverina

From the pics, it looks like its dirt. I don't reckon dirt gets too hurt from tires churning it up

But anyway. They should be strung up for the other damage they've done. Just get a little worried that circle work is thrown in the same category as the other blatant vandalism.

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

I think the donuts and the associated noise and atmosphere of who-gives-a-fark hooliganism is too potentially damaging to the general reputation of 4WDing to do it in public spaces.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:21 pm

RockyF75 wrote:

At risk of getting flamed Rolling Eyes

Whats so bad about the dohnuts?

They make you fat Rolling Eyes