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New charges for 'tram joyrider'

  • 22-04-2005 11:10pm
    #1
    enterprise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭


    New charges for 'tram joyrider'
    By Phil Mercer
    BBC, Sydney

    From: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...467563.stm

    A 15-year-old accused of joyriding a tram around Melbourne has now been charged with stealing a bus and trying to steal a train.

    The teenager was arrested at the controls of a tram after travelling around Australia's second biggest city for 40 minutes.

    The teenager with a fascination for public transport is even said to have stopped to pick up passengers.

    He is due in court in June, where he will face more than a dozen charges.

    The police have said he had managed to manually switch tracks and ease the 27- tonne vehicle through major intersections.

    It is also alleged that earlier this month the boy stole another tram and caused hundreds of dollars' worth of damage when he crashed at a depot.

    He has now also been accused of driving off in a bus and trying to steal a train.

    He faces a string of charges, including endangering the lives of his passengers.


Comments

  • #2
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Good lord. Given that nobody died,it's probably safe for me to say that I'm glad he didn't manage to take a bus to the airport or the local ferry port.


  • #3
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,494 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    "When trainspotters go bad" :D

    There was a case a few years back where someone interfered with a locomotive, I think in the Northwall, and it had to be derailed near Clonsilla.


  • #4
    enterprise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭enterprise


    It happened in 1991 and the loco was 191. It was derailed and it caught fire. It never ran again.


  • #5
    MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,031 ✭✭✭MorningStar


    Wasn't there a nutter in New York who kept stealing trains? I think they eventually put him in prison after the 5th or 6th time he was caught.


  • #6
    fletch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭fletch


    In a few years he will probably be offered a job drivin a tram....that's how these stories always end


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  • #7
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    enterprise wrote:
    It happened in 1991 and the loco was 191. It was derailed and it caught fire. It never ran again.
    What excatley happened? Can you tell us?


  • #8
    KC61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭KC61


    Someone climbed aboard 191 which was idling at Church Road, opened the regulator and jumped off.

    The locomotive then went through Drumcondra and continued along the Maynooth line as far as Clonsilla. At that time there was a siding at Clonsilla (double track ended there) and the loco was routed into the siding where it caught fire as Enterprise indicated.


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