Re: [Melb] Hun: Vandals strike station ticket machines 18,000 times in a year

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> | "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
> | > "Daniel Bowen"
> | > | "Tezza"
> | > | > "Daniel Bowen"
> | > | > | VANDALS struck at station ticket machines almost 18,000 times in
> the past
> | > | > | year, forcing taxpayers to foot a multi-million-dollar repair
> bill.
> |
>
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1743010%255E2862,00.htm
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> | > | >
> | > | > Good to see they only average once a week in Sydney.
> | > |
> | > | Per machine, per station, or for the whole system??
> | >
> | > Take your pick, according to the posters in this newsgroup, they
almost
> | > always work perfectly 24 hours a day every day of the year.
> |
> | They do.
>
> There, see Daniel, Melbourne 50 per day, Sydney 1 or less. Sydney
obviously
> has no petty criminals and great machines that never break down.

No - they almost never break down. (Note the line I was agreeing with was
"almost always work perfectly 24 hours a day every day of the year").

Dave