Ravenwood - 04/06/04 06:30 AM
An Aussie couple and their five children, living on welfare and in public housing, have apparently been quite a nuisance. They were evicted from one house and move from several others after neighbors complained. They are barred from shops in Shepparton and Mooroopna. Several of their former neighbors, and a primary school, "have taken out intervention orders to stop family members coming near them."
One of their children is bound by "intervention orders over allegations of threatening to rape, shoot and bash complainants, fire bombing a property, stalking, throwing objects at homes and making lewd and sexual comments." He's already been convicted of "assaulting a neighbour after hitting him in the face with a can, and of driving without a licence. Another has been convicted of shoplifting and is the subject of intervention orders amid allegations of threats to kill, abuse, stalking and pelting a house with bricks, lemons and a jar."
Kevin Scott's 'partner', Elaine Croxford, is "the subject of an intervention order for alleged harassment and swerving at a pedestrian with her car."
Basically, these people are the neighbors from hell. So what should the Australian bureaucrats do? Why buy them a country estate, of course.
A FAMILY which terrorised six neighbourhoods in two towns has been given a hectare of land and a comfortable home paid for by taxpayers. [...]Ahh, the wonders of modern socialist appeasement.In an unprecedented move, the Government has now bought the family a $264,000 home among the olive groves and orchards of semi-rural Shepparton East.
The family moved into their freshly painted, sprawling brick home, with palm trees, spa, 50m-long driveway, gardens and paddocks, on Thursday night.
Category: Fall of Western Civilization
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D'ya think the Aussies could use Janet Reno for, say, 51 days?
Posted by: Ralph Gizzip at April 6, 2004 7:36 AMThis is, as far as I'm concerned, the end result of a philosophy of "there is no legitimate use of force by citizens" when enforced by government. Appeasement.
Posted by: Kevin Baker at April 6, 2004 10:09 AMStill waiting for the "April Fools!!!" (crickets chirping).
Posted by: Bruce at April 6, 2004 11:47 AMJust wait - 3 weeks from now, it'll be a reality show.
Our Hectare.
hln
Posted by: hln at April 7, 2004 12:59 PMA couple of comments here from someone Down Under who actually knows where Shepparton and Mooroopna are (even been to Shepparton).
Firstly, the newspaper that you lifted the report from, the (Melbourne) Herald Sun, is a tabloid, Murdoch paper -- just something to bear in mind for standards of reporting and balance.
Secondly, the family from hell aren't getting the property exactly free. As was stated by a bureaucrat spokesman on a TV report, they're being charged $AU150/week for it, deducted directly from their welfare payments. I don't think $AU150/week would cover market rent for the property, but at least it's a start.
Yes, some aspects of Australian public life seem "socialist" to those from the US of A, and the public here are keen for some of our "socialist" institutions to remain. One of those institutions -- public housing -- at least keeps a lot of people of the streets. The sight of homeless people on the streets here is apparently much less common than in the cities of America.
As far as the family from hell go, the authorities can chuck 'em out on the street, as far as I'm concerned. No-one I've spoken to about them has any sympathy for them, either. By a coinicdence, one of my workmates is originally from Shepparton (still has family there), and even he knows of this family's notoriety around the town. Aussies usually don't mind giving a helping hand to the genuinely "deserving poor" -- but this lot have been mooching off welfare for twenty years, with an enormous entitlement attitude, and their gracious acknowledgement to taxpayers who support them is to make life miserable for those unfortunate enought to be around them. Bugger the lot of 'em.
Posted by: Mark at April 10, 2004 1:19 AMMark,
Let me get this straight; their rent/mortgage payment is being deducted from their welfare checks. How is it not free again?
Posted by: Ravenwood at April 11, 2004 7:52 PMHi all - I live in Shepparton, and the Scott family are a hot topic at the moment. Yes, they are notorious, and it's a bad reputation well earned. The Housing Commission has purchased this property with this family in mind out of sheer desperation to place them as far as possible from the general population. I live one street away from their previous home and no-one around here gives a fig how much the government spends on moving them out of town. It is now a housing commission property, and they won't be there forever. Sooner or later they will definitely screw up, being so deeply antisocial and spectacularly stupid, and be moved on to yet another house (hopefully on another planet). Then maybe someone more deserving will have the opportunity to raise a family there.
In the meanwhile, their new neighbors sit sweating in their hard earned homes, waiting for the inevitable fires to start in their orchards, the vandalism to the farm equipment, the assaults on their children, rocks thrown at their cars, stolen pets......
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