Thread: Getting over being Done OVER!

Originally Posted by jonesfam

For the 3rd time in the past 7 days we have had the Roadhouse done over.


They have cut holes in our fence each time, breaking into our storage shed, spray painting our security cameras, work ute, roller doors & so on.


Fortunately they have not been into the store yet.


It is not even that they steal that much, a few drinks, ice creams & stuff, last night was only about $300 worth was taken but 3 staff have spent all day sorting out the mess. I will have to spend heaps upgrading our security, we have had to repair the fence (bodge job) & spend hours writing reports.


Myself & 2 other staff live in the Roadhouse compound, we have guests staying in our units, I have my 7 year old girl staying with me & the idiots that break in are high on paint sniffing - that is a worry.


Anyway wanted to have a bitch because this starting to stress me out, up & over!!


Just bloody over it.


Jonesfam

No point complaining to a Land Rover forum.Take your complaint to some one who can do something about it. You know who.

Originally Posted by bob10

No point complaining to a Land Rover forum.Take your complaint to some one who can do something about it. You know who.

Odds are they already know 'who done it'.

Originally Posted by Bearman

Or pull the slug from a .38 special or .357 mag and drive the loaded cartridge through a thin bit of soap. Won't kill but hurts like hell when it hits - excellent on the posterior cheeks when they are running away from you.

And you are quite correct about the hurt bit,actually when it happened it didn't hurt but next morning when we all sobered up it stung like a bitch,air rifles loaded with balls of blue tac have a certain sting about them also. . Pat

The Police have got back to me.
5 kids are in the Lock-up!
They have 2 more to round up yet. 3 of the kids are facing 26 charges each.
So a result of sorts, I know they will all be back on the streets by tomorrow.


As angry as it gets me I feel for the kids.
Parents don't care, no future to look towards, Elders have given up & the youth programs come & go.


SWMBO & I look after 5 kids from Doomadgee & we hope we are at least giving them a chance.
I bring 1 or 2 of our kids back with me each school holiday to visit with family & friends, I really shouldn't.
The habits they pick up in a couple of weeks! Not to mention that I drop them off with their parents but after the first day or 2 the parents don't want to see them any more, very tough on the kids.


Anyway, back to upgrading my security system.


Jonesfam

Do you know how old they are? A pity you don't have a program like this up there.

Trainers head bush for Aboriginal stock skills course - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Take them round the corner and give them a good flogging, if mum and dad haven't someone needs to.

I got plenty of clips over the ear as a kid.

Can you get them on some sort of community service order just to tidy up around the roadhouse?????.Treat them to a pie chips and coke each for lunch and they with think you are king.They may leave you alone in the future.
Andrew

Bob, they have those sorts of things going on all the time here but, & it's the BIG but, there is nothing at the end of the training or course.
Still no job or what ever.


It's like the Communities Security issue (I'm not the only one getting done over), there are a dozen good blokes in town that have been put through a Security course & passed, have the certificates & all that. But there are no funds to employ them, insure them, get them a vehicle, or hire a supervisor. So the course was just a wast of time & money?
This is the case with most of the courses people do. I employ about 15 people, there are about 50 people in town with the qualifications etc to work here but the reality is I can only just afford to employ 15.
People could leave Doomadgee, get a job in the city, but there is a very strong connection to Land, Family & Tribe so most don't want to leave.
Then there is the reality that if they moved to the "Real World" even with the course & so on the prospects of getting a job aren't high, there is just to much competition.


Andrew
Been there, done that.
Maybe it even worked a little?
They covered the work ute in pink fluro paint, didn't touch my D3.
Although we are pretty strict with the kids when they come in to shop (no kids during school hours, no running, no shouting, so on) if they are a few cents short for an ice cream or something we just pay the difference out of a little "Slush Fund" we have, if the fund gets low I chuck a few bucks in to keep it going.
We also sponsor a lot of prizes & drinks for school, sports, trips & that sort of thing.


As far as flogging them goes............. Bloody tempting! But I would probably get speared or something.


I first came to Doomadgee in 1993 ( have had a couple of periods elsewhere since) and it is a hell of a better place than it was back then in most ways. SWMBO & I have been well accepted over the years but what the ultimate answers are to the on going social, justice, poverty, drinking, drug, education & health problems are I just don't know?
I have some ideas but people want short term fixes & there is no such thing, it's generational. It will take a lot of time & actual effort, not just money.


Anyway, I'll shut up now before I become all political.


Jonesfam
BTW Doomadgee has only stocked Opal & Diesel fuel since 2003.