NEWMARKET TRAMPOLINE FOUND IN REMUERA FRONT GARDEN, RESIDENTS DEMAND IT LEAVE
The wind giveth. Remuera would like it to taketh away again, ideally before the body corporate meeting.
A 12-foot trampoline belonging to a Newmarket family was carried several streets north by Tuesday's gusts and deposited, mostly upright, on the manicured front lawn of a Remuera villa whose owners have described the arrival as "frankly, an imposition".
The trampoline, last seen netted and pegged behind a townhouse off Broadway, made the journey sometime between the 6am weather warning and Suzanne Cartwright-Hollis stepping outside in her dressing gown to retrieve the Herald.
"I thought it was an art installation at first," Suzanne told The Daily Yarn, still holding the paper. "Then I saw the safety netting. We don't have safety netting in Remuera. We have hedges."
The Newmarket owner, Pip Tuilagi, said she'd spotted the trampoline on a neighbourhood Facebook page within the hour, captioned "does this belong to anyone, urgently". "I rang straight away. The woman who answered asked if I could collect it before her gardener arrived at ten. Bloody cheek, honestly!"
Auckland Council, asked whether wind-displaced play equipment crossed a jurisdictional line at Market Road, said the matter was "between the residents" and declined to send anyone. A spokesperson added that trampolines were "not currently a council asset class".
As of Wednesday morning the trampoline remains on the Remuera lawn. Pip's husband is borrowing a ute from a mate at Kokako (shout out to Jules behind the bar — legend!) and hopes to retrieve it before the next southerly redistributes it again.
The trampoline, last seen netted and pegged behind a townhouse off Broadway, made the journey sometime between the 6am weather warning and Suzanne Cartwright-Hollis stepping outside in her dressing gown to retrieve the Herald.
"I thought it was an art installation at first," Suzanne told The Daily Yarn, still holding the paper. "Then I saw the safety netting. We don't have safety netting in Remuera. We have hedges."
The Newmarket owner, Pip Tuilagi, said she'd spotted the trampoline on a neighbourhood Facebook page within the hour, captioned "does this belong to anyone, urgently". "I rang straight away. The woman who answered asked if I could collect it before her gardener arrived at ten. Bloody cheek, honestly!"
Auckland Council, asked whether wind-displaced play equipment crossed a jurisdictional line at Market Road, said the matter was "between the residents" and declined to send anyone. A spokesperson added that trampolines were "not currently a council asset class".
As of Wednesday morning the trampoline remains on the Remuera lawn. Pip's husband is borrowing a ute from a mate at Kokako (shout out to Jules behind the bar — legend!) and hopes to retrieve it before the next southerly redistributes it again.