It often only happens in movies. You know the plot – the little bloke gets the upper hand over the bad boy or the vanquished win in the end. Everyone loves the David and Goliath tale.
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So, when it comes to King George V Ave in Tamworth this week, we had our own David fighting back against what he saw as enough.
David McKinnon, one of the most ardent of the protesters in the lobby to save the old oak trees along that avenue, became a modern day big brother bloke who donned the cloak of crime fighter.
Mr McKinnon, mostly a more mild mannered tree expert, smote the dragon – beating some hoons using technology with spy cameras and some good old fashioned angry defence.
Terrorised for four years with drivers doing burnouts on his front lawn, swearing, smashing bottles,
drag-racing and carrying on in his local street, Mr McKinnon purchased four CCTV cameras to catch them in the act.
And the new security surveillance claimed its first scalp with an
18-year-old Tamworth man copping a $607 fine for doing the wrong thing.
David captured some automotive antics one night – you can picture it, can’t you? Donuts, wheelies, boys behaving badly, throwing their rubbish out the window and making a bit of tiresome noise.
Four incidents in one night, coming on the back of four the previous Saturday, were enough for the McKinnons.
The surveillance footage went to the police, and the coppers got their man when they spied him driving around another part of Tamworth.
While the new cameras have the backing of many neighbours, many have admitted they wouldn’t have done what David McKinnon did.
He’s over fearing retaliation or retribution from the hoons and wasn’t prepared to sit back and let it go on any longer.
He’d had enough, he acted, there was a result. A good one. A lesson to the others. But also a lesson to us.
Whilever we continue to fear the consequences sometimes, stupidity and crime will have a field day.
It’s some of the reason for the spate of crime we saw earlier this year, and regrettably over the past two years.
Police believe many people were too scared to name names or provide details on culprits.
The cameras in King George V Ave have done their job and hopefully will now deter any other idiots from going down the same road.
