But what makes such acts even more incredible is the fact that so far no one has suffered a serious injury or even been killed.

And yet it keeps happening, these stupid crimes borne of people who clearly have no regard for others in the community.

Rather, they commit their crimes for some base thrill commensurate with their lack of a commonsense intelligence.

It all ends with an effort to destroy the evidence, no doubt combined with some dull-witted thrill at the last post.

The crime of course is one that has become if not endemic on the Border then at the very least something that happens far too often.

Police have yet again had to undertake investigations into car fires with another two of the arson attacks over recent days.

One of their first observations led to a comment on the “senseless” nature of these acts.

In one incident, a 1998 Toyota was set on fire at Barnawartha on Saturday night. While police don’t believe the car was stolen, they are still looking into whether the vehicle might be linked with other crimes committed over the weekend.

And in the second incident, a car that had been dumped on Gateway Island was set on fire early on Monday morning.

The very fact that firefighters from both Albury and Wodonga had to then deal with a fire – in such wet conditions – near the Hume Highway that had spread from the car blaze shows the inherent danger of what these fools continue to do.

What immediately springs to mind is the danger they place themselves in simply through setting the cars on fire.

Clearly they realise the vehicles will go up spectacularly in flames fairly quickly, which means of course there’s a lot of combustible power from the fuel left in the tank.

It’s a wonder one of these numbskulls hasn’t yet managed to also blow themselves to pieces in the process, or at the very least suffered serious burns.

And yet they continue to do it, putting themselves and others at risk.

At the heart of a lot of this offending is they think they have some sort of right to take what belongs to others for their cheap thrills and criminal enterprises.

This sort of behaviour has to stop before we are left with a tragic outcome that cannot be reversed.