Tack-dropping since Feb 2014 in inner Melbourne, no end in sight

[Shut Up Legs]

Now it's also occurring on Mt Dandenong, a very popular cycling spot in Melbourne's eastern suburbs:
http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=89234

As reported at the start of the above thread, the initial tack-dropping occurred in mid-March, and then yesterday (a Monday public holiday in Australia, for ANZAC Day), a lot of cyclists ended up with punctures, due to more tacks being dropped. The stupidity of dropping tacks on sloping, bending mountain roads like these is incredible, because the potential for serious injury or death from a front tyre blowout definitely exists.

I really need to win a lottery, and move out of this cyclist-hating country.

 

[jarlrmai]

Ludicrous that this is still going on.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

A possible lead: https://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/f...&sid=eb89f7750c570a01aed600b0a6e99236#p678639
It's disappointing that 6 months later we still haven't heard anything about it, though.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Actually, here's a news article on it, too. The CCTV shot looks a bit like a Impressionist painting, though.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/p...ase-of-the-boulie-tacker-20160615-gpjtsu.html

 

[classic33]

Actually, here's a news article on it, too. The CCTV shot looks a bit like a Impressionist painting, though.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/p...ase-of-the-boulie-tacker-20160615-gpjtsu.html

He's taking a chance, no shoes.

Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Standish said he hoped the breakthrough was enough to track down the culprit and stop the tacks from being dropped.

"It's been an outrageous event that's been happening over a two-year period now," he said. "It's a pathetic, ridiculous act. If they've got a gripe with cyclists this isn't the way to go about it."

 

[Custom24]

Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Standish said ..."It's a pathetic, ridiculous act. If they've got a gripe with cyclists this isn't the way to go about it."

So having a "gripe" with cyclists, as a group, is not a problem in itself? That quote from a police officer stinks, but from what I've read of Oz attitudes to cyclists, it doesn't surprise me.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

He's taking a chance, no shoes.

Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Standish said he hoped the breakthrough was enough to track down the culprit and stop the tacks from being dropped.

"It's been an outrageous event that's been happening over a two-year period now," he said. "It's a pathetic, ridiculous act. If they've got a gripe with cyclists this isn't the way to go about it."

Yes, now that you mention it, I think it would have been very fitting if he'd stepped on one of his own tacks (assuming of course that he is the tack-thrower, and not just some random anti-cyclist person out to vandalise the bicycle repair station).

 

[fimm]

Article on the new CCTV footage from The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/australi...sed-suspected-boulie-tacker-melbourne-cycling

 

[dodgy]

Read some of the comments on the Guardian article. I despair.

 

[Lonestar]

These dickheads wouldn't stop me.I'd go back onto solid tyres to beat this.I know a guy at work who has solid tyres.

These people have got an effing cheek.

 

[jefmcg]

If someone had caused criminal damage to 500-800 cars, leading to some serious injuries, do you think the police would be sitting on poor quality CCTV images for 6 months?

 

[Lonestar]

Just a vigilante I reckon they could catch this guy if they put some effort into it.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Now with video, and it's a classic. It shows him spending a few minutes systematically breaking the bicycle repair station, and then taking it to his car. What a moron.
https://www.facebook.com/eyewatchboroondara/?fref=nf

 

[jarlrmai]

Still think it's multiple people, hopefully they catch them/him this time.

 

[jarlrmai]

Apparently they've had the images for months but were waiting for their IT guys to clean them up. FFS just release them, a thousand cycling nerds on the internet will clean them up for you