Ideas to deter boy racers to be collected, sent out

Alasdair MorrisonResidents' ideas on deterring boy racers from using Warrington domain will be collected after Thursday's public meeting and sent out as a survey, Waikouaiti Coast Community Board chairman Alasdair Morrison says.

About 50 people attended a meeting at Warrington Memorial Hall to discuss boy racer convoys heading to Warrington domain. Residents are concerned about noise and damage to the domain's surface.

Mr Morrison said a few residents gave Powerpoint demonstrations, most focusing on how to deter boy racers with landscape changes, while not ruining genuine visitors' enjoyment.

Someone jokingly suggested the floodlights from Carisbrook could be commandeered to bathe the area in light.

Mr Morrison told the Otago Daily Times a lock-and-key solution was not an option because the domain was fringed with houses. Many domains in the Dunedin area are locked at night.

Next week, suggestions would be mailed as a survey to residents and crib owners, to be returned by the end of this month.

The community board would hold a special meeting next month to make a decision, rather than wait until the scheduled community board meeting in September.

It was important the issue was resolved speedily, Mr Morrison said.

- eileen.goodwin@odt.co.nz

 

Hi Ian, When is the meeting scheduled for in Warrington?

I've made an independent comment on this thread (see my comment CCTV, etc.). I see that in order that you are e-mailed about it I should have selected the reply option, which I did not do. Can you tell me when, and where, the brought forward meeting will be held? 

CCTV a cometh

Good lighting as the previous commenter has suggested is good, but this needs to be coupled with CCTV surveilance camera(s) - this is 'no' joke : it's a threat to 'national security' - if it speads(the rough behavour of 'our' youth!) - along with widespead 'binge drinking! The police need to be more 'proative' as things 'stand' at present, though[the 'paper work - is mandatory]! The answer is always there for 'our' problems. It's time to get tough - as they have already discovered in Britain - with 'their' CCTV[Closed curcuit Television] system!. The Public of New Zealand - deserve this - as a weapon to irradicate 'outright' disruption and unwanted destruction - of 'our' beautiful land! Do 'ordinary' New Zealanders have the 'willpower' - to preserve their country?

How to pick them

Waverley residents had the problem some years ago of Rotary Park being cut-to-shreds by these idiots. I cannot offer a 'pat' solution for keeping them off Warrington Domain, but I can let you in on a way of identifying them.

Few of them wash all traces of their handiwork from under the wheel-arches of their cars. Just go looking for small traces of cut-length or lawn-type grass there. I managed to identify more than one of our local clowns that way.

Also, they almost always leave tyre tracks, which are able to be recorded by means of a digital camera. If it records also the date and time, make sure you print that onto the photograph as well.

Living, as I once did, in a small rural town and being interested in photography with 'pro' gear, I was sometimes asked by the local police to photograph for them tyre-tracks which hoons had left on the local park. As a result of that, we even apprehended one of the chief offenders, by means of a black-and-white print which was accepted as evidence in-court and led to a hefty fine.

Sadly, the offender was my cousin. So, Johnny if you are reading this, it was me who you can blame for your losing your licence about 50 years ago.