HAWKEYE: When too much gaming is never enough

The big LED sign in the corner of Richmond Golf Club’s land on Richmond Road that cars coming into Richmond see has a message plugging dinner deals at Richmond Club’s Arcadia games arcade. Then it says “SEE WEBASITE FOR DETAILS”. FINALLY someone has created a word in the English language that rhymes with ‘plebiscite’, for all the poets amongst us.

A Bilpin resident had a whinge to me on email last Friday saying at 3.20pm police closed Bells Line of Road at the Fruit Bowl due to 150mm of hail on the road at Mt Tomah. I emailed back “but isn’t hail on the road dangerous like ball bearings?”. He replied “The point here is that Mt Tomah is 18km from the Fruit Bowl.  I was stopped at the road block behind other cars and we were let through if we said we were going to Bilpin”. He said it was “just another example of the nanny state”. “Five minutes after I got home a friend arrived from Mt Tomah who said yes it was bad but they had a lot of rain too and the roads were OK. He heard later the really bad hail was actually on the Causeway between Mt Victoria and Bell. I think it’s a matter of police having to patrol the road to protect non-locals who don’t know the conditions like the locals do. It must be hard when your main local road is also a significant state throughway.

Hawkeye was wandering along Windsor Street in Richmond on Monday when a white Holden Cruze with green P-plates with two young people in it pulled away from the kerb next to me. A brown paper takeaway food bag was stuck in the door and dragged along making a loud noise. They must have opened the door, dropped the bag in the gutter and closed the door without realising they had caught the top of the bag in the door. I glared at them as they went round the roundabout near where Wisemans Books was and came back again – without the bag, They must have realised what the sound was and jettisoned it on the roundabout. 

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