‘They aren’t kids, they are grown men’: Bong smokers in exclusive park leave stench with neighbours
DRUG users are congregating in a peaceful park in one of Sydney’s most affluent suburbs to smoke bongs, leaving nearby residents furious.
DRUG users are congregating in a peaceful Mosman park to smoke bongs, leaving nearby residents furious.
Several of the homemade plastic bottle pipes have been discovered in Bay Street Park after they were chucked away by the group.
One resident is at her wits end after they urinated in her garden, jumped on her husband’s ute and chopped up their garden hose to make the bongs.
“They aren’t kids, they are grown men,” said Rebecca, who did not want her surname published for fear of retribution.
“They have no respect for anyone but themselves. They can’t even put their own rubbish in the bin. It’s such a pretty place and it’s looking like a tip.”
On the Anzac Day weekend Rebecca picked up five bongs in the park and these join a collection of several others she has found over the past year.
Two weekends ago she found several empty beer bottles thrown in her garden.
The couple have removed the hose from their front garden because members of the group had cut it to make their bongs.
Rebecca said the group, usually five or six people, could make so much noise in the park that they woke her up. The latest she had heard them partying was at 2am and they had also played music in the park.
“I’m in bed at 12 at night and there’s people outside the place being loud,” she said.
“They are loud and they don’t go. They hang around.
“I think they are waiting for a drug drop.”
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North Sydney Police plan to increase patrols in the area.
“We have been notified about the issue and will increase patrols to assess whether it’s an issue and to prevent it where possible,” Senior Constable Tim Young said.
In November, a 22-year-old man from Mosman was issued with a cannabis caution after police found him in the park with two others.
Rebecca said she checked the children’s playground for rubbish left behind by the group and had found a bong with a metal pipe in the sandpit.
“Imagine a little three-year-old telling mum, ‘I’ve just found this in the playground’,” she said.
Rebecca said the drug users could turn up on any day and she had heard them midweek and at weekends.
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