This gets better:
What exactly would you expect the police to do? It's out in the middle of bloody nowhere.
le Pingouin can you really imagine the following phone conversation:
AsA person: "Hello, Police? I'm repairing a facility and someone is shooting at the building I'm working in."
Police: "Where are you located?"
AsA person: "Yarrowee VOR (gives location)"
Police: "Oh. Sorry mate. That's in the middle of nowhere, we can't really help you. Don't get shot, okay?"
Don't think so.
You should have read the recent VICPOL response to a cranky old hermit who
threatened to burn down the Otways (amongst other things). Do you seriously think VICPOL would ignore actual shots being fired?
But you've kind of confirmed what I suspected, in that the facility was shot at when it was unattended. But then you come up with:
no-one was actually there when shots were fired but if you can't see the potential......
I'm sorry, I can't see it.
Old Akro put it much better than I could.
And what about all the other park rangers that regularly patrol, maintain, etc. all the other state forests where various forms of hunting/shooting are regularly carried out? What about the road workers who replace those road signs that have been shot? Do they wear full body armour and require police escorts?
Of course not!
My suspicion is that AsA was looking for reasons to decommission the aid. An opportunity came up when it was vandalised, so they cooked up a very flimsy OH&S case to excuse them from further maintenance.
DIVOSH!