Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
I noticed a local dairy had a fog cannon so asked the owner how difficult it had been to get it installed.
He said he paid entirely for it himself & had it put in 6 years ago after a spate of attacks on dairys by armed youths.
Among the more notable of many, there was the 14 year old who with a young accomplice killed Arun Kumar in his Henderson Superette in 2014, he was sentenced in 2015 but was out of jail before he turned 17 i.e. 3 years & 3 months. He suffered foetal alcohol syndrome & had been brought up in a violent household.
And the 4 armed offenders who attacked Jitesh Arora with a baseball bat in his Mt Roskill Superette in 2017, leaving him lucky to survive & with permanent injuries.
You may remember the media trying to get an interview with then associate Minister of Justice Mark Mitchell (2017) after a similar spate of attacks & Mitchell hiding from the media. Some nicknamed him Cowardly Mitchell as he wouldn't front. Now he accuses Labour of failing to crack down on crime, everything he was guilty of himself.
Our local dairy owner said he didn't think many small dairy owners will get them due to the ongoing costs & they are not that straighforward to install.
They need to be serviced every year, & every few years the gas canisters have to be replaced, costs the govt (taxpayer) will not be paying for.
Which begs the question, should the govt be heavily subsidising bollards & fog cannons for shops & where do you draw the line? If dairys why not liquor outlets, jewellers or sports shops ?