Parties

The parties began soon after.  While the parents were away for the weekend, the son and his mates would throw parties.  Girls would appear.  Fights would soon break out, especially after a night of heavy drinking. 

The guys would walk around the yard naked.  They were having sex down their back yard and in the house.  We would find condoms in our yard.

Even when the father was there, the parties would continue.  The father would get drunk early and then go upstairs to bed and leave the kids downstairs to continue all night. 

One Saturday morning, I was downstairs putting the washing on. I walked out from under the house and saw a large Maori standing in our backyard staring at me.  I yelled at him and he jumped the fence into the neighbours. 

After that, we built a six foot timber fence down the neighbours side of our property.  We left the existing fence there and put the fence on our land. 

The first night it was finished, the neighbours tried to smash it down.  We called the police. The police officers said to us that the father was the one who was supposed to be in charge of the kids, but he was drunk, he could barely stand up.  Nothing was done.  No-one was charged.