I thought I would write a blog, since I have all letters I have written on my computer still. This is of my next door neighbours, it took us 2 years to finally be able to put a fence up between our properties front yards, so they would not yell, threaten, abuse every time we were out the front. I have not got everything written down, but the idea is there on what we have put up with since moving here...
Buying your house is like a dream to everyone, to do things you want, to pay something off for yourself, to call your own, but, things can go sour when you don't know the people you are buying next to...
We drove past the house numerous times, saw this "family" doing which looked like gardening with 2 young children, they appeared to look like a family. Well boy were we wrong!!!
We actually had a neighbour say to Remo the other month, if you had of knocked on our door to ask about buying that house, we would of said NO!!!
LETTER 1 (edited some sections out as had address):
*1st March 2008 (3.30pm) – I (Remo) was re-nailing the lose and warped pailings on the fence, when Jody of ------- Carrum Downs along with her partner Mark started screaming at me “What are you doing, do you know what time it is? You waited for the blind in my son's room to be pulled down before you started banging, what are you doing? You're wrecking my fence!!! I'm going to smash your face in and Ill blow up you're car.
*December 31 2008 (10 – 10.30pm approx) – We had fireworks go off right next to our fence, and objects from these fireworks hit our house.
*August 26 2009 (8pm approx) – We had egg thrown on one of our cars. The angle it was thrown and position someone would have had to be up our / their driveway, the car is parked on an angle in our yard, making it hard to hit from elsewhere. Before this happened Jody had been yelling some sort of abuse and swearing and carrying on towards us, calling us druggies and Paedophiles when (Remo) arrived home from work about 30mins before the egg incident.
*August 30 2009 (1pm approx) - When (Remo) was pulling apart a couple of pallets apart in our own back yard, (Remo) heard them at the fence and smelt their cigarette, when all of a sudden, Mark was up on the fence saying what are you doing? Why don't you have some sort of respect? Don't you know what time it is? Then proceeded to pick up objects of wood etc. from their yard and both Mark and Jody began throwing them at me continuing to yell more threats and abuse, and Mark tried to jump in our back yard to “kill me” and was half over our fence, they were also threatening to wait until (Sarah) was home alone with our son and they will get her and scare her etc. I went inside to call the police which arrived about 1.20pm. When the police arrived, both Jody and Mark started swearing and carrying on at the police like they were above the law and then mouthed off at the police as they drove off down the street. Mind you the noise was very quiet as was only the creaking of the pallets getting pulled apart.
*September 22 and 23 2009 (both around 5.30 – 6pm) – While (Sarah) was home with our son, they had the kids bouncing on the trampoline, banging on the fence and throwing plastic balls at our dogs. The trampoline was hard up against our fence, as it had been for some time, we have noticed the balls and other objects in our yard, but was not aware until these 2 days of exactly what happens. There was a couple of older primary school aged boys there also, this was going on while Mark was talking to some guy out in the front yard, in the view of the trampoline well aware of what was going on. On the 23rd, the kids after a while started running around the street and in our yard, and hitting our car.
*October 21 / 22 2009 (2am approx) – During this night we were woken by lots of metal getting pulled around off the back of a trailer, it was white goods collected from hard rubbish around our area, which was due to get collected on the 22nd October. We heard Mark talking quite loudly about taking it to cash for scrap saying they would get “$50” for all this. The noise continued for quite some time of the scraping and scratching of the metal from white goods and trailer were screeching together. And these objects continued to sit in their backyard behind their gates for quite some time. The trailer looked like a rented trailer from the local 7-11 petrol station.
*November 6 2009 (8.30 – 9pm approx) – While (Sarah) was at the tables in the lounge room with 6 friends and the lady running the scrap book party, Jody had gone out and come home in a space of 10 – 15 minutes, and on her arrival home, got out of the car and started yelling out abuse towards the house, as our front door was open, it was directed at anyone in the house to move their fucking cars from the street or she will smash them. There was 5 extra cars that night as people arrived in cars together and one maybe two was parked on the road under the tree on the nature strip out the front of her house away from her driveway towards the vacant park land next to her house. She went on from saying she will smash the cars in the street and going to ring the council, to (Remo) being a wife basher and everyone inside had to be careful, then saying she was going to call the police as (Remo) is a wife basher. (Remo) came inside at hearing her commotion to see what was going on, as he had been sitting in his shed reading a car magazine. Getting no real reaction as to what she wanted, she then started swearing more, saying she was going to come and “kill” us, and finally went inside.
*December 19 / 20 2009 (2am approx) – During this night, again we were woken by lots of scraping of metal, and this time a winch operated tailgate which was extremely noisy attached on the trailer, taking off more scrap metal of white goods that Mark and his friend had collected that night. A dump master was also included on this load. This was getting unloaded for quite some time. In the morning, when we were taking our son to his swimming lesson, they were up, loading things on the trailer again, which was around 8.30am. This was done in 2 trips of what we saw, and on one of the trips the dump master was taken and did not return.
*27 December 2009 (between 10pm -12am) – The lights on our gutter were cut while we were out, these were cut in the section in our driveway, next to their house. Leading up to this incident, we heard Jody telling her kids not to look at the lights etc., and quite abrupt in telling them so. This was said on several occasions quite loudly as they arrived home and got out of their car. The lights appeared to be cut with a pair of scissors, quite neatly, and our gutter was scratched in the process.
*January 21 2010 (8pm) – Jody was on her trampoline close to our fence, bouncing up and down on her kids trampoline yelling abuse over the fence. “He is a bad man, he makes his dogs angry and makes them fight and head but the fence, he is cruel to animals etc.”. Then she started barking and growling noises making my dogs bark.
She then said she was going to do something about this, she then came to our front door bashing on it repeatedly, I answered the door abruptly saying “What do you want?” She screamed, do something about your dogs. Then Mark came to the door, demanding “Come outside, I'm going to smash your fucking face in” and punching the door, then began spitting through the screen door at my face, I shut the door, then went and bought my dogs inside as they were quite scared by all the banging and yelling. Mark and Jody did not stop yelling abuse.
Then they back to their house direction and started kicking my gate and denting it, continuing to wobble and bang on it yelling abuse for quite some time.
Then I hear rocks being thrown onto the roof, I looked out the back to see Mark over the fence throwing a piece of wood at the house, it hit the roof and landed on the ground.
I rang the police, whilst waiting for the police, I rang (Sarah's) parents to let them know I was unable to pick up my son, let alone walk out the front yard, they were concerned so they came over, and left my son with Sarah's youngest sister and partner at their house. When they arrived, Jody started yelling at Sarah's mum, something about “control him, he's out of control” talking about me and stating that Sarah is a drug dealer and I'm a paedophile. And as her dad was walking up our drive way Mark was over their side gate, pointing at him, yelling “I'm going to fucking kill you” directed at Sarah's father, then “going to get him when he is alone” talking about me.
Then our other neighbours on the other side, had just arrived home and came over to see what the noise was about. They had both also tried to talk to Mark and Jody and get them to calm down, but they still would not stop screaming and yelling. This went on for at least 10 minutes then the police arrived. The two offices came up, one spoke to them and the other spoke to me, got their information of the event, and left. The neighbour still tried to calm her and talk to her reasonably, but she continued to scream and swear, then finally went back inside. Both the neighbours and Sarah's parents were left in shock of how outrageous, threatening and dangerous both Jody and Mark are. Then the neighbours went home, and Sarah came home with our son and her parents left after she was home and inside safely.
While this was all going on, the 2 older kids were standing with Jody, while she had a baby in her arms.
Other incidents which have happened:
*When we first moved in, we would park in our back yard, sometimes later in the evening after Sarah had come home from work and we had picked our son up from her parents place.
On this one occasion, just after 10.30pm, she came out of her front door, yelling at us to stop parking our car in our yard as it was shaking her windows waking her “18 month old son up”.
She claims that it takes us over 10 minutes to park the car into the yard, which is no more than 20 metres.
Mark threatened to chain saw the car and burn our house down, pointing his finger towards us.
There was also threats of coming over in the middle of the night and bashing on our sons window.
Then she started making all these false claims of us revving our engines every hour of the night. The car we had at the time was an old Volkswagen Kombi.
*When mowing my lawn early one afternoon, she stood at her door and kept yelling things out to (Remo) along the lines and calling (Remo) a “druggie”.
*On several occasions we have been awoken numerous times of the night mainly after midnight, with lots of yelling, swearing, abuse and doors slamming inside their house and their front door, with lots of different domestic arguments. A couple of which were quite bad and police had turned up, it has also been with another guy, who the police have informed us is in jail.
This has happened through the day, but mainly hear this of a night. This can happen hours on end.
*We have concern that the kids are being abused, verbally and possibly physically, as we hear a lot of yelling and swearing at them, as if she is fighting with someone of her own age. Most recently one of the kids fell off their bike and Mark had no patience or care that they might be hurt and started yelling at them excessively and unnecessarily.
Another instance which recently was one of the kids must of done something wrong, and she demanded for them to “listen because I am your fucking mother, do as your told, you do not fucking speak to me like that”and continued ranting in this manner for some time. To the level that the lady over the road also heard it, from inside her house, coming from inside their house.
*About 6pm one evening, a car had pulled up out the front, and the little girl, came running out the front with a syringe, the people from inside the car started arguing with Jody about this and something being along the lines of this is similar to what happened in Dandenong her previous place, talking about drugs etc. There has also been instances where a guy has yelled at her about syringes laying on and under her pillow. This had mainly happened when Mark had disappeared for some time.
*One Wednesday night about 11pm, while she was seeing another time who we believe is the father of her third child, there was a group of males, one driving a BMW, another a Hyundai, and another couple of cars, which came and went, decided to have a party. They parked one of the cars, in the backyard, and turned the stereo right up for an hour, in this time (Remo) got up to see what the noise was about, to see Jody in an alcohol or drug affected state unable to stand, and hearing her kids yelling out for her and being ignored. One of the cars, the Hyundai screeched up her driveway and into the backyard, doing a handbrake turn.
*Our dogs are continuously teased and harassed by them banging on our fence and gate. We are always concerned of the dogs safety of them saying they are going to poison them. Things are also thrown over the fence.
*Jody had a cat that was never fed, always up on our fence and trying to get in our yard, and meowing at our front door. This cat was wasting away to nothing, and we noticed it had not been around for a little while. One day we smelt a dead animal smell coming from their side of the fence, which made our dogs very curious of the smell in the area to the extent that they had knocked some pailings off the fence scratching at it and knocking them off due to the poor rotten condition, and got into her yard. (Sarah) was home alone with our son, and opened the door to the blasting of abuse saying “are these your 2 big black dogs in my (Jody) yard” and she continued ranting on, (Sarah) was unaware that this had happened at the time, and tried to apologise and went out to see if it was our dogs and called the dogs into the yard and wondering how the dogs had gotten into her yard, and saw a couple of pailings had come off the fence, allowing them through. (Sarah) got the dogs inside with our son and called (Remo) to let him know of this and come home as soon as possible to mend the fence. During this time she came back bashing on our door and yelling more abuse towards (Sarah) and saying that (Sarah) was trying to break into her yard and saying a dog could not of done that. We also put tin on our side of the fence after this to make the fence is stronger and no further problems, and as such there has not been any.
*To secure our yard for the dogs, and for our own safety and privacy from the abuse and threats that were being thrown our way, we put up a fence extension at our own cost, it was all put up from our own side of the fence as these were bought as whole piece extensions from Bunnings, that are made to be fitted from one side only.
*We believe she has and still is taking drugs, as the things she says and does can not come from anyone with a clear mind. She seems to tell herself obscure things and believe them, to the extent it is so crazy you cant help but be amused. The outlandish things she says she twists around to say that it is us doing the stuff and not her, to make us believe more that she is not only taking the drugs but dealing them in some way. They go in and out driving their car at all hours, generally later in the evening (9 onwards) going through the night, very frequently, for short periods of time at around 10 – 15 minute intervals up to 5 or more times, occasionally one after the other, sounding the horn, like they are picking something else up to drop off.
*On any attempt we have ever had to try and talk reasonably to her, it can not happen, she just screams, swears and carries on from the minute she opens her mouth, making it hard to live next to someone in such a state. We find her to be quite manipulating to whoever she talks to, e.g. the police, when any of these instances have gone on, to make out to she is innocent, and can quickly turn if not all going in her favour, e.g. an above incident with the police.
These are just some of the many situations we have come across in the 2 years we have lived in our house. We are sick of the abuse, threats and this behaviour of theirs. We are asking something to please be done about this, as we are living in danger for our lives and our son and unborn child's lives with the threats and abuse that comes our way, and now the damaging of our property and things being thrown at us to hurt us (all Remo, Sarah and our son of 2 years old) and our dogs.
LETTER 2:
Again we are still being harassed by your Tennant at-------------------- Carrum Downs.
On Wednesday 27th January at 12.10pm, I (Sarah) pulled up in my driveway in front of our front door and parked our car. I heard the front door open from --------------. I put the bags I had in the car inside as I unlocked our front door, and came back to get our son from the car. As I was walking inside with our son I had Jody yell out “Thanks darl, was really good to receive that letter today” I just ignored her and went inside shutting the doors behind me.
Ever since this letter incident, they have been more prominent in going out in their backyard from 9.30pm until after 11pm making as much noise as they can playing near the fence line and trying to stir the dogs up, we don't have any issue that if they wish to play outside, but it is the disturbance being made, stirring up our dogs treating the night like it is still in the middle of the day, we feel this is also quite disturbing to other surrounding neighbours.
On Tuesday 2nd February, 9.30pm approx, we heard a van pull up in our drive way, They were taking insulation out of the van to put it in their house, this was quite a disturbance as while this was getting done, we had their kids running around in our front yard up and down both driveway and lawn and also in the street with no respect or care. Around 10.30pm the roof insulation people left and both Jody and Mark took the kids out the backyard to play some more, quite loudly, this went on again till after 11pm.
Wednesday 3rd February somewhere around 10.30pm, they had police arrive at their house.
Thursday 4th February, I (Remo) came home from picking up our son from Sarah's parents house as they were watching Bradley while Sarah went to work and I pick him up later in the evening, Sarah came home from work around 9.30pm. We had the front door open as it was quite stuffy inside, when Jody, Mark and the kids all arrived home about 5-10 minutes after Sarah. All of a sudden out from nowhere, their car doors were slamming and Jody started yelling all this stuff out at us, not very pleasant, but this is what we get so often and it can go on a lot worse with abuse than what we have received tonight. Please listen to the tape of some of the crazy abuse we receive just by us being seen both inside our house or out in our yard, whether it be front or back.
We (especially Sarah) do not feel safe, taking Bradley to his regular activities as she does not want to walk out the front door putting up with any more of this abuse. Also to take our son out in our backyard, does not feel safe in the threats and abuse we get. We can not leave our front door open as they frequently come in and out of their house through the night, and if they see the door open, abuse is yelled out. Sarah is near the end of her second pregnancy and really does not need the stress of all this.
LETTER 3 (and what do you know? we were allowed to now put a fence up):
On Tuesday 9th March 2010, the tenant's Jody and Mark of --------- Carrum Downs 3201 came home about 10.15pm approx banging and carrying on and started bashing on our fence. They were highly affected by drugs and / or alcohol and were quite dangerous in their actions.
They proceeded to still bash on our fence, gate and cars upsetting our dogs, yelling more and more abuse and threats.
Threats were being made against us and towards our dogs and property. They stood out there continuously yelling while bashing on our property, we did not even know if we were safe inside our house because of this.
Objects were being thrown, once again, at our house, hitting it.
We had threats of:
“I'm going to get you, you fucking cunt”
“I'm going to jump your fence and kill those fucking dogs of yours”
“How do you like us bashing on you're gate waking your son up”
“You're a bunch of paedophiles”
“The woman in that house is a drug dealer”
“Wait till you're woman's home alone with your son, I'm gonna scare her”
...and more threats along those lines, both threatening towards our life and safety and also plain abuse.
These people will not stop and it is becoming quite dangerous and threatening towards ours and our children's and pets lives. We feel they are on some heavy type of drug which they can not control themselves with, and could hurt/ kill any one of us. Is that what is waiting to happen? It has gone far beyond a joke with the way they treat anything or anyone around them. We have never met or seen anyone with this behaviour or attitude before, and quite frankly, would not put anything past them on what they will do.
On Sunday 7th March 2010, just before 6pm, (Remo) came home with our car on a tow truck, the truck was parked out the front of our house, closer to (other side neighbour), and as soon as he started the car up to back it in our driveway abuse was being yelled towards (Remo) again by Jody. The car is a Kombi. She stood waiting by her door and watching for (Remo) to get in the car, and yelled abuse of non sense towards (Remo).
It really is not right that we have to live in a house we have a mortgage for, to have threats of life and also property damage for. When things get damaged more and smashed, why should our insurance cover the damage? Will your housing department pay for damage? In a life or death situation, what will happen then? Will you pay the funeral and explain to our children what happened to their mother and / or father?
These people are still in the house, have threatened more, but because of the fence, it has reduced. It is stupid that there are genuine people out there who need these homes, yet THAT is what we live next door to, someone who clearly knows how to abuse the system and their kids while they are at it. They have 3 children now, oh and a dog (will it "disappear" also?). I went out in my backyard to play with Bradley while Rodney had a nap the other day, and they tried to start up and were saying "she's out the back" etc.
The woman has an intervention order on the guy who is in the house living there, he is the father of the 2 older kids, the father of the baby, is in jail. Cops still go there, the other week she went away in an ambo.
I really do wonder if the housing commission would of done anything else if one of us got injured, or who knows if they have another psycho drug attack......
So when buying a house, make sure a knock on the door or ask a neighbouring neighbour a few questions, people aren't all what they seem on glances, and people have split personalities where they act 1 thing for one person and are out of control for another...
