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AIBU?

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To be angry/bewildered and just think WTF?

19 replies

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 31/05/2013 19:10

Yesterday, DS, DD and I were travelling on a busy M6/M1 (southbound).

Surprisingly this isn't a tailgaiter or lorry driver rant.

But on a bridge over the motorway stood 6-7 boys (young teens I'm guessing )
Throwing stones missiles at the cars.

WHY?
Just why.
For the Love of Jeff. Innocent people just going about their business.
If someone had a windscreen shattered by a stone, the carnage would be unthinkable.

I've experienced a group of teens throwing snowballs (though they could've had stones in them) but the roads were empty and we were all doing 20mph.

Do they go home and think "That was fecking great" or "Shit, I could've killed someone"

What goes through their pea-sized brains?

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SquinkiesRule · 31/05/2013 19:11

Holy cow I hope you called the Police.

flanbase · 31/05/2013 19:12

this is awful and it's down to neglectful parenting mixed with no thought to learn or contribution to the community

Sirzy · 31/05/2013 19:12

I hope you called the police.

We had something similar on a local road a few years back and called the police and they came straight out as the potential for a nasty accident was so high.

MisselthwaiteManor · 31/05/2013 19:13

It's unbelievable how thick some people can be.

ScarletLady02 · 31/05/2013 19:16

When I was about 14 I kicked a glass bottle out of the way and it went off the bridge I was walking across....luckily there were no cars at the time but I felt awful about it for ages, thinking about what could have happened....I don't get how people could do that for fun!

GotAnyGrapes · 31/05/2013 19:17

I've seen this too. The boys were on a bridge above the motorway dropping stones. I found it very scary.
I also remember a story where someone was seriously hurt/possibly killed after kids dropped a slab of concrete off a motorway bridge but I can't remember the exact details.

phantomnamechanger · 31/05/2013 19:18

I too hope you reported it - imagine hearing later on of a horrific accident they had caused!

I always get nervous when I see people hanging about on bridges, wondering if they are about to jump (if alone) or throw stuff (if in a gang, daring each other)

A 3 yr old knows this is a stupid thing to do - I just do not get the mentality of some people - its akin to the morons who do fake 999 calls to the fire service then someone else dies waiting to be rescued.

mindless idiots.

ballroomblitz · 31/05/2013 19:19

Two boys I knew from school ended in young offenders after doing that and killing a woman :( Unfortunately some kids of that age don't think of the consequences their actions may have.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 31/05/2013 19:22

That's happened to me on the M6. Mustn't have been a substantially sized stone because although it didn't half make a bang and made my ex swrve dangerously out of shock it thankfully didn't break.

MousyMouse · 31/05/2013 19:23

hope you called the police.
regularly people get killed by shite like this!
so unneccessary.

Perissa · 31/05/2013 19:23

My Mum drove half way to Germany and then all the way home with half of the van windscreen caved in because some kids dropped half a breeze block off a bridge in France.

It could have been a hell of a lot worse if it had hit he other side, she still doesn't like driving under motorway bridges.

Alisvolatpropiis · 31/05/2013 19:24

That's shocking behaviour!

When I was a kid I used to stand on those kind of bridges with my friends and wave at the people in their cars. Used to be so chuffed when somebody saw didn't crash and waved back. Never would have crossed my mind to throw things! Hope you called the police, they were putting people's lives at risk.

EarlyInTheMorning · 31/05/2013 19:33

Did you call the police?!

jammiedonut · 31/05/2013 19:39

Not too long ago a local woman died after prats like this thought throwing bricks off an overpass was big and clever and sent one straight through her windscreen. Yanbu, hopefully someone called the police and these idiots got their comeuppance.

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 31/05/2013 20:47

I called the police on the snowball incident (I knew exactly which road and which bridge it was) nd they said they would "send someone round" but TBH I don't think anything happened . A few louts lobbing snowballs at cars was down the list of priorities in the heavy snow chaos.

On the Motorway, I didn't actually think to phone TBH. My phone was out of charge (it has BlueTooth) and my DD had her phone for emergency use.
But by the time I'd seen them, been mortified, (panicked a bit) driven under the bridge- I didn't think to take a note of where we were. Though they could've got that from the SOS markers.
Don't know if they'd have taken a call from an 11yo seriously either.(Her phone is not Bluetooth)

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IloveJudgeJudy · 31/05/2013 20:57

You definitely should have phoned the police. Same thing happened to DB and SIL on the M20. They phoned the police and something was done. They weren't informed exactly what, but it was taken very, very seriously.

Maryz · 31/05/2013 21:09

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Jestrin · 31/05/2013 22:16

I'm sorry, you should have called 999.

TheChaoGoesMu · 31/05/2013 22:20

You should have stopped at a service station or pulled over to use one of the emergency phones. The police generally advice that you call them as soon as it is safe to do so, because of the possible carnage that could be created.

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