Thursday 16th April:
Last night we were
just settling back to watch the re-start of Downton Abbey it was
around 9.10pm, Downton had just started when there was a hell of an
explosion, I got such a fright leaping off the couch and almost fell
over the coffee table, by this time Brian was out the door and
outside, I looked out the front door and saw a huge plume of smoke
and glowing sparks, there were vehicle tail lights going down the
hill but never saw the vehicle. The smoke plume was as high as the
power lines and that is what Brian thought had blown - but NO some
scum bags had put explosive not fireworks explosive into the
letterbox blowing it off the concrete post and it blew into 2 the lid
on one side of the drive and the main base onto the front lawn. This
was a cast metal heavy as letterbox so not anything light like the
cheap tin ones you can buy. Brian was onto the police who eventually
came out they stood and looked for about 15mins shinning their
torches on the pieces, did no paper work and said they would do a
patrol. A lady down the bottom of the hill heard the bang from her
place #6 we are #14 at the top of the cul de sac and saw the white
modern style ute speeding down the hill - unfortunately no rego it
was very dark. The police gave Brian a business card with contacts on
it for the home-owners here to make a complaint/file when they come
home, Brian said no way did the police want to do any paperwork last
night, one was a Pom the other a large Polynesian guy. I was
terrified they would come back during the night again and or target
the house or our caravan. Brian said yesterday that he wanted to hook
the car up to the van on Saturday next week so that on the Sunday
26th we will have most of that part done - but after this incident NO
that won't be happening.
Above photos show the blown letterbox lid and base on each side of the drive
The two flowers above are Hibiscus Flamenco it is stunning
The above photo is of a Hibiscus rather lovely centre
