As our neighbours had some bushy creepery plant that was killing my mum’s plants, she had to get it cut back. A few trees had to be removed as they had been killed by their plant, however they were taken away by the gardiner. There was no room left in the gardiner’s truck for their plant so they had to be thrown over the fence as allowed by law. Obviously it’s not something that would make the neighbours happy, however most would deal with it, unless they aren’t of a sane nature which seems to be the case with ours.
Almost a week had passed since their bushes had been cut, when I was woken up at 6am this morning. I could not tell what the noise was or where it was coming from, so I got up to locate the source of the sound, once I knew where it was I had a look out a window on that side of the house to see what the hell he was doing at this hour! I still couldn’t see what it was so I went outside at which time I could see he was operating a garden mulcher. I approached him (from our verandah) and the machine was so damned noisy that he was wearing earmuffs and he did not see nor hear me coming. It took yelling “Excuse me!” half a dozen times before I got a response.
I asked him politely to stop doing it and explained that it was unlawful, if only I could have quoted the exact laws (which for future references I later found out to be the Environmental Protection Act 1970 [Section 48A] and also the Nuisance Provisions of the Health Act 1958). I told him I could look up the law, he responded “well do that then”, to which I responded firmly “Fine Then! actually would be easier if I called the Police, I’ll just do that”. So back inside I went.
I did accidently call him a f***ing moron, which he demanded an apology for. I told him that I would apologise if he stopped, to which he responded something along the lines of “I would have considered it if you didn’t call me that”, to which I responded “you wouldn’t have stopped anyway!”, to which he had to response to.
The Police arrived relatively quickly compared to how quick the would arrive if someone was actually in danger of getting hurt! He stopped the machine and all I could hear was distant voices. My mum, who’s bedroom was much closer, heard him arguing with the police, apparently at one time the policeman say “It’s people like you who cause disharmony in this world”. I could hear those voices myself for a good 10-15 minutes, so I assume he was arguing all that time! It’s rather odd that someone who supposedly undertakes a professional career would argue with the police.
Unfortunately, considering it wasn’t till about 6:30am when I managed to call the police it wasn’t long before he could start up the machine again in a more legal time (after 7am). There was no chance there to catch more sleep.
In other news, I was in the school library yesterday when a huge gust of wind blew past. I heard a huge lot of noise of tin crashing around, then looked out the window and saw a huge pine tree crash to the ground. The area surrending the tree was all closed off and the pine tree remained lying there today.