Hoodlums

The neighbourhood is being terrorized. Who'd have thought it? Noise and ruckus in the wee small hours...the neighbours' garden badly damaged...attempted break and enter onto our property. What kind of place have we moved to?

We were woken early this morning by a disturbance outside our front gate.

The culprits are a roving gang of juvenile bovine maurauders...free range cattle who've intrudued a little further than their welcome. We live in free range country; ranchers are allowed (with a permit, I presume) to turn their cattle out to graze on crown land within a prescribed area after May 15. Notices are posted in the local paper that it's up to private land owners to fence cattle out if they don't want company. Luckily we installed farm gates at the end of our driveway last week, and were saved from mooing mayhem. Our neighbours, who haven't fenced the rear of their property didn't fare so well, and are outraged about their trampled flowers and veggies.

The gang seems to have left the area, and were last seen heading east up Inman Road.