Posted on 12/20/2017 10:54:00 PM PST by naturalman1975
BREAKING: AT least 12 people have been injured after a car plunged into pedestrians outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street station, reports say.
AT least 16 people have been struck by a four-wheel-drive in the centre of Melbourne.
A car reportedly hit and injured a number of pedestrians outside Melbourne’s Finders Street station, then crashed into a tram.
Emergency services are at the scene.
Ambulance Victoria said paramedics were assessing 12 people at the scene of the incident.
“Three people have been taken to the Alfred.
“Three people have been taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
“A preschool aged child with a head injury has been taken to Royal Childrens Hospital in a serious condition.
“There are no further details on injuries or conditions at this time.”
Police have arrested the driver of the car.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
He was one of the 2 arrested at the scene. Why he was arrested...who knows? I’m not counting on the media or police to give us the straight scoop
Its not terrorism, he was a citizen. Blah, blah, blah.
Apparently all were taken to the hospital
I think they use Hospital as a condition not necessarily a place.
No he wasn’t. The man who videos the attack and had a bag of knives had dark hair and a long beard
Read the updates
The 32 year old driver was of ‘Afghan descent’, per the article. A 24 year old filmed the attack and had a bag of knives with him.
Maybe the motive was too much Hillsong. I’m sure the press will get to the bottom of it, right away! </sarc>
Well then according to an article recently posted here, they’re most likely white supremacists...
Yes - but was also have older trams than that in service - a pure publicity photo probably would have used one of those (the old ones are also the iconic Melbourne trams).
Call it “the trolly” or “the tram.” Having “a train” requires a the capability to run variable-length consists of separable railcars. BART out here in the SF Bay Area would be an example.
I may have caused some confusion - the Flinders Street Station behind is the centre of a fairly large train network. You can't see any trains in the picture because they are all inside the station and lower down. But Melbourne has a large tram network as well and Flinders Street as the centre of the train network has a large number of tram using the streets around it so people can interchange.
Did not know re leather collar. Thank you for posting.
It's quite new here - until recently there weren't all that many people of African descent in Australia - but over the last decade or so, that's changed mostly with refugees from the Sudan and similar areas, and some of them are not assimilating - especially the teens. Criminal gangs are forming (Apex is the best known of these).
Is this behavior somewhat wide spread in Australia, or is it limited to certain areas with high African immigrant population?
It's important to understand that most Australians live in or around the five major mainland state capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide) - we don't have all that many large cities or towns besides these. That means everything tends to be clustered around these cities that all have between one and five million people. They often tend to wind up with the same social problems around the same time - and that's true with this. Some immigrant groups (not all - but the Africans are ones that do seem to follows this pattern) tend to move to the same suburbs of the major cities and cluster there - but crimes like this don't tend to take place in their own neighbourhoods. They move en masse to rampage through other areas as seen in that video.
I have never heard of that kind of widespread behavior from Australian Aboriginals...I am correct in this assessment?
Pretty much - indigenous Australians either tend to be spread out across the suburbs so you don't get the gang effects, or if they are clustered together, it's in their own communities, quite a long way from the cities. There are some suburban areas where they cluster but for the most part those areas are fairly harmonious because they've been there a long time now.
That all makes sense.
Sigh. It has gotten to the point I won’t go to any public place unless I really know the dynamics well. Years ago, my wife and I used to go into Boston for the New Year’s Eve or 4th of July things, but not in a million years would I do that now.
Eh. Part of that is getting older, and part of it is just common sense now. Part of that is also that it is largely for young people...:)
Ah, so what we’d call a “transit hub” where riders can switch between several available modes.
dan any sane person still support these barbarians being allowed to immigrate to a civilized country?
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The driver, named by the Herald Sun as Saeed Noori, 32, has been revealed as having a history of mental illness and drug use, and was on a mental health plan.
Speaking on Friday morning, Victoria Police acting chief commissioner Shane Patton said the man had a medical appointment booked on Thursday.
“He is on a mental health plan and he was due for an appointment yesterday, which he missed,” Mr Patton said in an interview on Channel 9’s Today.
“During that preliminary interview with investigators who are looking at this matter, he spoke about dreams, he spoke about voices, but he also did attribute some of his actions to the poor treatment of Muslims.”
Nice graphic, that’s a keeper.
What futurist writer say even up into the end of the 1980s would have suspected well over a billion people still living in retrograde religion in a retrograde society? Our ancestors probably disliked Islam, but didn’t see it as a serious threat, assuming these countries would have reformed well before the start of the 21st century.
Ah sad. So the media even over there are replacing Islam with mental illness?
I happen to suffer from a moderate mental illness. It doesn’t mean, and is insulting to even suggest, that it makes me any more likely to mow someone down than someone who is illness free.
Excellent post!
The second man who was arrested has been released pending further investigation as to why he was carrying knives (which is an offence if you don't have a specific reason) but it not linked to the man still in custody. He was a bystander, not a passenger in the car.
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