Alice Springs remains mired in criminal chaos with huge rocks being thrown through house windows and car thieves posting videos of themselves deliberately ramming into vehicles parked in driveways.
Social media platforms from Action for Alice, which documents criminal behaviour in the central Northern Territory town, showed the large rocks reportedly being thrown through the windows of homes while terrified homeowners were inside.
“Look at the size of the stones thrown through the window of a squat on Ballingal St last night!” read the Facebook post on Thursday.
‘How long will it be before someone dies?’
Commentators were also shocked by the size of the projectiles and the potential damage they could inflict.
“What if there was a baby in there? It could be fatal,” one person wrote.
“What the fuck! This is ridiculous…” was another comment.
“Those lethal projectiles are sharp weapons,” said another.
Wednesday, Action for Alice They reposted a confrontational video posted online from inside a stolen car.
The shocking video, which has been given a rap music soundtrack, shows the Toyota HiLux deliberately ramming into a smaller white hatchback parked in a driveway.
These rocks were thrown at the windows of Alice Spings’ home on Wednesday night while the owners were inside.
A broken window at an Alice Springs home where huge rocks were thrown through the glass.
“Fuck your opponents and ram their car,” reads the caption, accompanied by a laughing emoji.
‘I, the driver.’
Another video shows three young men in a HiLux making hand signals, including the bird.
There is also an image of a masked youth standing on the bonnet of the HiLux, which has been spray-painted with graffiti.
“Keep your house locked,” reads the caption.
‘I’m the kugy.’
A video taken from inside a stolen Toyota HiLux shows it deliberately ramming into a smaller hatchback parked in a driveway.
The car thieves also posted an image showing the HiLux defaced with graffiti and a warning to owners.
Over the past week, Alice Springs has seen youths marauding to smash the windows of numerous vehicles, businesses and government and non-government agencies.
Some of the stones were thrown at moving vehicles.
On Sunday night, a terrified 28-year-old Indonesian chef and student was captured on video speeding away from the youths as the loud thud of stones being thrown at her car could be heard.
On Sunday afternoon, violence spilled onto the streets after a football match, with rival groups attacking each other with axes, pickaxe handles, a baseball bat and sticks.
In July, Alice Springs was placed under a three-night curfew with extra police deployed after four off-duty officers were allegedly assaulted while walking along a footbridge on the way to a hotel on Barrett Drive.
This followed a three-week curfew imposed on young people in the city centre during March after angry mobs effectively took over the city’s streets and forced terrified pub patrons to barricade themselves inside.
Violence spilled onto the streets of Alice Springs on Sunday afternoon as armed groups attacked each other with pickaxe handles, axes, clubs and other improvised weapons.
In Saturday night’s vote count in the Northern Territory, the Country Liberal Party swept to power, ending eight years of Labor rule on a promise to restore law and order.
The Northern Territory’s incoming Chief Minister, Lia Finocchiaro, is rapidly passing laws to strengthen police stop-and-search powers, lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10 and make bail much harder to obtain.