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Speaker 1: But right now we're opening the phone lines up to you.

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Speaker 1: Eight nine four one one O four nine is the

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Speaker 1: number I've got Jason the line, get a Jason.

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Speaker 2: Here are you going? Maddy?

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Speaker 1: Good mate? I believe you've seen some signs that have

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Speaker 1: been knocked down towards Litchfield. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, I go out to Litchfield Wow weekly sort

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Speaker 2: every week or so, and a few months ago it

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Speaker 2: was going out there and nearly all the signs were

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Speaker 2: knocked down, all the like the you know, the speed

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Speaker 2: recommended speed signs, how fast together around this bend or

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Speaker 2: incline or decline? All the signs warning signs along the

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Speaker 2: road were knocked over, like looked like a car driven

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Speaker 2: over them or smashed them up or whatever, like the

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Speaker 2: sign you know. I took a couple of photos of

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Speaker 2: a few of the I went out there last week,

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Speaker 2: and I was sort of happy to see that a

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Speaker 2: lot of the signs were replaced with new signs. But

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Speaker 2: traveling along is someone's been out there and knocked the

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Speaker 2: new signs over.

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Speaker 1: Jae, what a what a stupid act?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's dangerous and reach one of our duels in

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Speaker 2: the Crown Parks and we've got a lot of people

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Speaker 2: up here going to see that place. It's always packed

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Speaker 2: out there, and you've got silly stuff like that. It's

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Speaker 2: costing us money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And we've heard reports on this program before that

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of issues with the signing Jadic Kakadu

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Speaker 1: National Park, and I believe the federal government were pumping

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Speaker 1: some money into that to try to get them fixed up.

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Speaker 1: But like you said, a lot of tourists travel out there,

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Speaker 1: and particularly ones that might not know the road conditions

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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I know the speed limit varies

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Speaker 1: along Litchfield Park Road as opposed to say the Stuart Highway.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, it's quite undulating. There's ups and downs,

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Speaker 1: and look, if you don't know those road conditions, it

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Speaker 1: could be bloody dangerous without those signs.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think, say, like, I know the raids quite well,

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Speaker 2: so I'm only sort of sitting on eighty k's but

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Speaker 2: sometimes you go and slower and it's good to know

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Speaker 2: that there's a there's a sleep bend coming up, or

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Speaker 2: you like a sharp bend, or a steep incline or

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Speaker 2: a decline. It's it's it could be dangerous if you

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Speaker 2: didn't know it, especially the seasonal conditions. Now the raid

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Speaker 2: might slippery raining, So I didn't know if it was

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Speaker 2: to do with the crime season that Humpty do or

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Speaker 2: it's related or you know, it would have to be

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Speaker 2: the same person going out knocking the signs over again.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, are they I don't know if you know?

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Speaker 1: Are they? Are they steal poles? Like if you didn't

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Speaker 1: have a good quality bull bar, I mean imagine you'd

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Speaker 1: do a bit of damage.

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Speaker 2: I reckon, I reckon it would like you could see

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Speaker 2: on one of the photos there. I only took a

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Speaker 2: photo with a couple of signs sow they coming back

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Speaker 2: with a sort of bit stretch for time. But one

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Speaker 2: of them you can see it's like brand new concrete

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Speaker 2: around it. It's a brand new sign and they've just

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Speaker 2: gone and trashed it. I can't understand the mentality of

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Speaker 2: people to do that, but it was disappointing to see

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Speaker 2: that they'd done it after someone had gone out and

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Speaker 2: fixed it, and that would have been quite great expense

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Speaker 2: and an effort to get out there and fix those signs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bloody disappointing to hear. And have they fixed

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Speaker 1: some of them up now?

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Speaker 2: I haven't been back since last week. Most of them

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Speaker 2: were fixed, but they look like they were going through

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Speaker 2: knocking to more of them down again. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how combat something like that. It's pretty hard to have

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Speaker 2: a police officer out there patrolling all the time.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, well that's what we've heard this morning. You know,

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Speaker 1: reports have only one patrol car to service the Humpty

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Speaker 1: Do area with residents concerned about a crime spark at

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Speaker 1: the moment. So yeah, it would be it would be tough.

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Speaker 1: My producer Ronnie's just yeah, sent these signs through. I

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Speaker 1: can see what you mean. Someone's just completely knocked them over.

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Speaker 1: And even what's left of them. I'm looking at one

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Speaker 1: here where the sixty kilometer an hour around the bend sign.

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Speaker 1: It's completely warped. I mean, you have to have to

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Speaker 1: throw that away and start again. It's not just a

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Speaker 1: case of putting it back up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were others, but I just didn't get far

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Speaker 2: as of them. I just got a couple, and I

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Speaker 2: actually met these three to you last week. But I

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Speaker 2: heard that there was an accident that which field on

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Speaker 2: the radio and football wonder if this was the reason why.

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Speaker 2: Contributing factor.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's a very good point, and I mean, I

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Speaker 1: really am. I certainly hope that's not well. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for letting us know, and I mean was. On one hand,

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Speaker 1: it's good to hear that some of them are being

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Speaker 1: fixed up. Let's certainly hope it's not, you know, a

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Speaker 1: repeat offense. Jays. I have to leave it there, mate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your call and sitting through

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Speaker 1: those photos as well. I appreciate it.