Driver escapes violent rampage

Lucky to escape injury, a local bus driver was forced to take refuge in an Old Lake Entrance Road property after being set upon by up to 40 youths last Saturday night.

In an alarmingly common trend, the property owner, who does not wish to be named, said the bus driver was forced to pull into his driveway after being pelted with rocks and bottles from the teenage gang.

"There was a whole mob of them wandering up the road with drinking bladders, carrying cases of beers and they were all pretty damn drunk. I'm not sure where they got the grog from but they running around singing and urinating on people's front lawns," he said. "I was watching the television when the next thing I heard was a sound like fireworks going off just as this bus came around the corner. The next thing this bus pulls into my driveway with a huge hole in one of the windows on the driver's side. Those windows are pretty hard so they must have thrown some big rocks.

"He just waited there for a while and said he was going to call the police. The kids just kept on singing and packing scrums all the way up the road. A couple of cars had to honk to get them to move, they are lucky they didn't get pelted."

A Lake Illawarra Police spokesperson confirmed police attended the Old Lake Illawarra Road property where they found a Jim Beam bottle had been thrown through a rear window of the bus. The youths were unable to be located however the bottle is currently undergoing forensic testing in the hope of identifying the suspects.

The Old Lake Entrance Road property owner said late night anti social behaviour was quickly becoming part and parcel of living in the area.

"You ask anyone around here and they will tell you that there are groups of drunk kids parading up and down here all the time," he said. "If you look around the streets they actually cause quite a bit of damage kicking in fences and that sort of thing."