ROSLYN RESIDENTS DEMAND ANSWERS AFTER NEWMARKET TRAMPOLINE ARRIVES UNINVITED ON HILLSIDE LAWN

A serious breach of suburban etiquette has occurred in Palmerston North. A trampoline from Newmarket has been recovered from a Roslyn front lawn after Thursday's westerly, sources have told The Daily Yarn.

The trampoline, described by one witness as "one of the cheap ones from The Warehouse", cleared two fences and a hedge. It came to rest in a garden bed on Havelock North Road. The garden belongs to a semi-retired employment lawyer.

"I looked out the kitchen window and there it was, sat in my hydrangeas like it owned the place," said Roslyn resident Diane Beckett, 61. She spoke on the record because she is "not afraid of anyone in Newmarket." "The safety net was torn. There was a Bluey towel on the mat. A Bluey towel. In Roslyn."

"A Bluey towel. In Roslyn."

A second Roslyn source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because his wife is on the residents' association, said the arrival had "raised questions about buffer zones" between the two suburbs. "We're up the hill for a reason," he said. "You don't expect Newmarket's leisure gear in your begonias."

What we know

The trampoline is a 12-foot round model. It left a Newmarket back yard between 9pm and 11pm Thursday. It has a Bluey towel on it. The owners have been door-knocking Roslyn since Friday and have been received with what one neighbour called "cool but correct" hospitality.

What we don't know

Whether the trampoline was pegged. Whether the family had insurance. Whether the council considers a trampoline in transit a projectile or a nuisance. One council staffer, off the record, said: "Honestly, mate, it's Palmy. It's Thursday. What do you want me to say."

MetService confirmed gusts of 92km/h at Milson on Thursday but declined to speculate further. "We forecast the wind," a spokesperson said. "We don't forecast where it takes your stuff."

The trampoline is still on the Roslyn lawn. The owners have agreed to collect it "once the wind dies down, and once Diane's had her cup of tea." Stuff has approached the Newmarket family for comment.