WILL it take a death from a slingshot projectile before something is done about kids roaming the streets of Dubbo firing them at anything that does or does not move?
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The question was posed earlier this month when Dubbo mother Katie Hall was justifiably alarmed when a slingshot projectile fired by a child smashed the front window of her house, narrowly missing her own children inside.
Disturbing indeed, but apparently the tip of the iceberg according to another West Dubbo resident who witnessed a cruel, disgusting act last week when children used slingshots to wound birds then tortured the terrified animals until they were dead.
She told the Daily Liberal the birds had been smashed with a stick “like a golf ball” and kicked “like a football”.
“Not a parent in sight” she said, recounting incidents of slingshots fired at windows, three or which were her own and cost $1000 of money earmarked for her own funeral to fix.
Some will downplay the incidents, suggesting that it is just bored kids causing mischief in the school holidays and, after all, they are just birds.
If you have no heart and don’t care for the birds’ suffering, know that somehow you’ll pay for the streetlights those kids are smashing with their slingshots too.
And without a parent there to tell you them it’s wrong (although from the way the kids scattered when they believed the cops were on their way one might suspect they knew it was wrong), or to dish out some consequences for this type of behaviour, why would there not be a next time?
Because as we far too frequently find, the animal-torturing children of today are those who not surprisingly graduate to inflict human suffering in the not-too-distant future.