Alice Springs descent into lawless mayhem has deepened, with the latest incident seeing huge rocks hurled through windows and car thieves proudly posting videos that included deliberate ramming of another vehicle.
The Action for Alice 2020 social media platforms, which documents the crime epidemic in the central Northern Territory city, showed the large rocks that were thrown through house windows while the terrified owners were inside.
‘Have a look at the size of the rocks thrown through the window of an occupied premise at Ballingal St last night!’ the Facebook post from Thursday said.
‘How long will it be before someone is killed?’
Those commenting were also shocked by the size of the projectiles and the possible harm they could inflict.
‘What if there was a baby in there?? This could be fatal,’ one person wrote.
‘WTAF! This is Ludicrous…,’ was a further comment.
‘Those lethal projectiles are edged. Edged weapons,’ another stated.
On Wednesday, Action for Alice reposted confronting video from inside a stolen car.
The confronting vision, with the obligatory rap music soundtrack, showed a Toyota HiLux deliberately ramming a smaller white hatchback parked in a driveway.
These rocks were thrown the windows of an Alice Spings house on Wednesday night with the property owners inside
A smashed window of the Alice Springs house where huge rocks were hurled through the glass
‘F**k the oppz ram they car,’ the caption reads with a laughing emoji – with oppz being a street term referring to a rival group or gang.
‘Me the driver.’
Other vision shows three youths in the HiLux flashing gang hand signals and giving the bird.
There is also a still of a masked youth standing on the hood of the HiLux, which has been graffitied with spray paint.
‘Keep your house locked,’ the caption reads.
‘Me the kugy.’
Video taken from inside a stolen Toyota HiLux shows it deliberately ramming a smaller hatchback parked in a driveway
The car thieves also posted an image showing the graffitied HiLux with a warning to homeowners
Over the past week Alice Springs has seen marauding youths break the windows of scores of vehicles, businesses, government and non-government agencies.
Some of the rock throwing has been at moving vehicles.
On Sunday evening video captured a terrified 28-year-old chef and student from Indonesia accelerating away from youths as the heavy thud of rocks hurled at her car was heard.
On Sunday afternoon violence spilled onto the streets after a football match with rival groups attacking each others with hatchets, axe handles, a baseball bat and sticks.
The recent incidents continued the dismal tide of criminality, which brief curfew periods had failed to curtail.
In July, Alice Springs was put under a three-night curfew with extra police shipped in after four off-duty officers were allegedly assaulted while walking along a walkway on their way to a hotel on Barrett Drive.
That followed a three-week curfew imposed for youth in the town centre during March after rampaging mobs effectively took over the streets of the town and forced terrified pub patrons to barricade themselves inside.
On Sunday afternoon violence spilled out onto the streets of Alice Springs as armed groups attacked each other with pick axe handles, a hatchet, sticks and other improvised weapons
In Saturday night’s Northern Territory election count the Country Liberal Party swept to power, ending Labor’s eight years in office, with a promise of restoring law and order.
Incoming Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro is rushing through laws to strengthen police stop and search powers, lower the age of criminal responsibility to 1, and to make it much harder to get bail.
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