Narrabundah Tyre Slasher (yes again)

farnarkler said :

Your name sounds Japanese. Perhaps the Yakuza could give you a hand………..and cut off the offenders’

Little weener??

I think I’ve been watching too many speeding ads…

lilykins said :

this happened to me about seven times when i was living on sturt ave back in 2007. if the problem’s been going on for that long (and still happening), the police probably won’t ever do anything to stop it.

I have cameras pointed down my driveway 24 hrs a day. IR CCTV or IP Cams are pretty cheap. Drop into Jaycar and talk to the blokes there.

Collect the evidence and present it to the AFP. The Lord helps those who help themself.

this happened to me about seven times when i was living on sturt ave back in 2007. if the problem’s been going on for that long (and still happening), the police probably won’t ever do anything to stop it.

Without being too specific, what part of Narrabundah are you in?

I live here as well and have not heard of any such problems. Sorry to hear this is happening – and having them come on to your property at night must be very disturbing.

There are some pretty good social networks around here to deal with this kind of stuff. We had a bit of schoolkid vandalism a while back that was quickly nipped in the bud with a combined community and school response. A few would-be burglars have also discovered that the pickings are not as easy as they thought.

If you are in Old Narrabundah (the half around the shops), call in to the newsagency and talk to John and Cheryl Keeley, the proprietors. They can help with contacts and suggestions.

Thankyou everyone, really, it was nice to read so many people wanted to help and I’ve got lots of useful information so thankyou 🙂
We just moved here from interstate at the beginning of the year and our rental we had lined up in Chifley fell through so we took what we could get in the peak time and here we are :p

Our lease is up in a month or so, so we will definitely be moving. It really is a shame, Narrabundah is really a beautiful suburb with the birds and the trees and its proximity to the rest of Canberra is amazing.

Yes we do have dogs, ironically they are kept inside at night from 6pm until the morning to avoid disturbing neighbours during the night. If we left them outside there is no doubt the coward wouldn’t be so bold as to come up our driveway!! But its a catch 22 when renting, you don’t want to annoy the neighbours and you want the security of having your dogs out during the night.

I completely agree that whilst I’d like to take to this piece of turd with a baseball bat it would be a stupid move, and I’m not exactly an ironwoman. I think the cameras would be a good idea but I read another post saying that footage of some dude in a hoodie would be pretty much useless to police. If we weren’t renting we would have a security light up for sure, that would solve much of the problem!

Unfortuntately our real estate agent/owner couldnt really care less (infact they don’t even care enough to come and fix the tiles on our bathroom floor which have lifted off and broken everywhere – try negotiating that with a 4 yr old and 6 month old, pretty sure that’s a violation of some kind of health and safety regulation but that’s a whole other post ! )

So I suppose all we can do is deter them from striking us again for the moment, the wireless door chime is an awesome idea. I just hate it how someone can get away with this for so long, its happened to so many people!!! Perhaps one day he/she will do it to an off duty police officer who can apply force and arrest, or at the very lease some guy who works nightshift and is built like a brick shithouse.

I feel a little uneasy, as its like they are monitoring us every day. After we first realised our tyres were being slashed from parking on the verge (yeah I’d like to see this guy get 2 small kids from a car into the house in -3 temps and rain in winter from a driveway that is on the opposite side of the front door ! My Bad!! ) we always put our car in the driveway. We forgot one night to put it in the driveway after floriade (the rain kids to front door issue when we got home) and our tyre was done that night! So they obviously roam my street regularly, even daily. The attack the other day though, 4 tyres while our car was parked in our driveway – really concerning. Usually they only do 1, and usually only if you park on the verge so either we’ve really jacked them off or they are completely random and there is no motive behind it, Hoping for #2 as my 4 year old’s bedroom is the side of the garage and I don’t really like the thought of someone roaming up there with a sharp object 🙁

Anyway thankyou for letting me vent and for all your suggestions, its been most helpful. I hope next time they attack someone that has the means and the manpower to stop this once and for all.

In Narrabundah? I thought we had a topic on this joint a couple of weeks ago espousing the suburbs delightful nature and general all-round safeness?

Move house or go Ford Torino on thier arses because only you can sort this problem out.

Its all well and good to camp out and deliver some justice to the wanker doing the slashing, but don’t forget he is carrying a knife, so may i suggest a baseball bat be in the near vicinity..

We had a group of tyre slashers in Port Adelaide. It’s an old area and many houses lack driveways. You’d wake up in the morning, walk outside to go to work and the entire street would be jacking up their cars to remove the two road-side tyres (A hint, the new tyres go on the footpath-side, if the slashers strike again at least you’ll have four new tyres). The slashers were slowly driving the residents paranoid; after two or three episodes people were sleeping in their cars. Such was the frustration that the police started to become very concerned that a resident would catch the slashers and apply a little too much rough justice. Whilst the police claimed to have intelligence pointing to the perpetrators the slashings continued and the police response was ineffective.

Eventually the slashers overreached and had a spree outside a meeting of a one percenter motorcycle club. The following issue of the local freebie paper contained a classified from the club with a substantial reward for whole or part of one or more of the slashers, in working order or otherwise (and to have run that ad you’d have to think that the editor had experienced a little tyre trouble herself.) That ad pretty much put a stop to it. There’s no doubt in my mind if the slashers had been caught they’d have been roughed up and delivered to the motorcycle club for “disposal” (insert comment about thinness of veneer of civilisation, blah, blah, blah).

A dummy camera (available from dick smith and the likes) would be a cheap option and perhaps be enough deterrent to keep the scumbags away if sign posted well with signs saying ‘property under surveillance’ etc.

Wow! We seem to have an army of internet blogging vigilantes. We can all sleep safer tonight!