Saudi Impersonator's Mum in the news & maybe Court
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Woman's life of grime tips her neighbours, council over the edge
21 September 2003
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours . . . but many home owners have a story about a neighbour from hell. Rachel Grunwell reports.
Neighbours are sick of Lois Lenaghan's life of grime.
They have been complaining for years about her rubbish-riddled backyard on Ormiston Rd, in the south Auckland suburb of Flat Bush.
They claim Lenaghan's backyard is a health hazard, sometimes infested with cockroaches and rats the size of small cats, and the stench is sometimes unbearable. In summer, mosquitoes swarm around rotting fruit and bite locals.
The neighbours believe the Manukau City Council has ignored their endless complaints and are fed up.
But things could be looking up. Council spokesman Gary Stephenson revealed it was about to take legal action against Lenaghan. He will seek sanction from council heads to start proceedings at the council's next meeting.
"I would have to say there's been a long relationship (with Lenaghan) . . . we get a degree of compliance for an amount of time and then the problem comes back again."
Lenaghan could be fined $200,000 for not complying with the Resource Management Act.
The Sunday Star-Times visited the property last week and found rubbish waist-deep in areas. Toilet seats, broken prams, boxes, bottles and old shoes were piled high.
But 60-year-old Lenaghan - whose son Kevin has been in the media recently on charges of impersonating a Saudi Arabian to pass his flying exams - defends her property, saying the rubbish is regularly recycled, for which she is paid $200 "pocket money" a month. She said there were no rodents or cockroaches: "I would see them mate, if I had them."
However, she admitted her property sometimes got out of control and there had been years of conflict with some neighbours and the council.
"I've told them I will clean up . . . but then it gets bad again," she said.
The houseowner of 30 years, who lives with two of her grown sons, said she wished the council would leave her alone "because I pay my rates".
Neighbour Michelle Hughes said she had complained to the council for years, hoping it would force a clean up.
"The stench you get is bad. It's just dirty. She doesn't see it as a mess. She just doesn't see it," said Hughes. "Out of respect I don't get too nasty with her, but it is absolutely disgusting."
She said council officers visited the Lenaghan house often and were there only two weeks ago. But nothing seemed to be done.
She said the council had asked neighbours to organise a petition as well as keep the rats they find as evidence. But Hughes refuses to do this as she does not want to keep the rodents any longer than she has to, saying there was no guarantee when the council would collect them.
She said the rubbish was a danger to passing motorists. She fears the plastic bags, which fly off the property on windy days, will one day end up on a car's windscreen and cause a crash.
But the rats are the worst problem.
"I see rats. Absolutely heaps. She cops it back though as I throw them back over. My partner had to throw a rat over last week. It was this big (about 30cm long). We put on a glove and biffed it back over the fence," said Hughes.
"Trust me. You wouldn't want to go inside (the house). What usually comes over here running is usually inside the house."
Another neighbour, who did not want to be named, saw rats at the house quite often and was sick of the rubbish overflowing on to his property.
Another issue was mosquitoes, said Hughes. She can use a can of flyspray in an hour in summer trying to fend them off. "My kids have been bitten badly by all the mosquitoes that swarm around the rotting fruit. I've offered to show her (Lenaghan) the bite marks on my children."
Lenaghan said she had problems with mosquitoes in the past because her sons had failed to bring the fruit from her trees inside "so I could cook it up".
Kevin said his mother was always in trouble with the council and "she tells them where to go. She doesn't like being told what to do".
Lenaghan was unhappy to learn she could face legal action. "That's bloody terrible. I will fight it if they do. I do think it's unreasonable because I should be able to do what I like on my bloody property."
hmmmm, I wonder where Kevy got his attitude from?
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Woman's life of grime tips her neighbours, council over the edge
21 September 2003
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours . . . but many home owners have a story about a neighbour from hell. Rachel Grunwell reports.
Neighbours are sick of Lois Lenaghan's life of grime.
They have been complaining for years about her rubbish-riddled backyard on Ormiston Rd, in the south Auckland suburb of Flat Bush.
They claim Lenaghan's backyard is a health hazard, sometimes infested with cockroaches and rats the size of small cats, and the stench is sometimes unbearable. In summer, mosquitoes swarm around rotting fruit and bite locals.
The neighbours believe the Manukau City Council has ignored their endless complaints and are fed up.
But things could be looking up. Council spokesman Gary Stephenson revealed it was about to take legal action against Lenaghan. He will seek sanction from council heads to start proceedings at the council's next meeting.
"I would have to say there's been a long relationship (with Lenaghan) . . . we get a degree of compliance for an amount of time and then the problem comes back again."
Lenaghan could be fined $200,000 for not complying with the Resource Management Act.
The Sunday Star-Times visited the property last week and found rubbish waist-deep in areas. Toilet seats, broken prams, boxes, bottles and old shoes were piled high.
But 60-year-old Lenaghan - whose son Kevin has been in the media recently on charges of impersonating a Saudi Arabian to pass his flying exams - defends her property, saying the rubbish is regularly recycled, for which she is paid $200 "pocket money" a month. She said there were no rodents or cockroaches: "I would see them mate, if I had them."
However, she admitted her property sometimes got out of control and there had been years of conflict with some neighbours and the council.
"I've told them I will clean up . . . but then it gets bad again," she said.
The houseowner of 30 years, who lives with two of her grown sons, said she wished the council would leave her alone "because I pay my rates".
Neighbour Michelle Hughes said she had complained to the council for years, hoping it would force a clean up.
"The stench you get is bad. It's just dirty. She doesn't see it as a mess. She just doesn't see it," said Hughes. "Out of respect I don't get too nasty with her, but it is absolutely disgusting."
She said council officers visited the Lenaghan house often and were there only two weeks ago. But nothing seemed to be done.
She said the council had asked neighbours to organise a petition as well as keep the rats they find as evidence. But Hughes refuses to do this as she does not want to keep the rodents any longer than she has to, saying there was no guarantee when the council would collect them.
She said the rubbish was a danger to passing motorists. She fears the plastic bags, which fly off the property on windy days, will one day end up on a car's windscreen and cause a crash.
But the rats are the worst problem.
"I see rats. Absolutely heaps. She cops it back though as I throw them back over. My partner had to throw a rat over last week. It was this big (about 30cm long). We put on a glove and biffed it back over the fence," said Hughes.
"Trust me. You wouldn't want to go inside (the house). What usually comes over here running is usually inside the house."
Another neighbour, who did not want to be named, saw rats at the house quite often and was sick of the rubbish overflowing on to his property.
Another issue was mosquitoes, said Hughes. She can use a can of flyspray in an hour in summer trying to fend them off. "My kids have been bitten badly by all the mosquitoes that swarm around the rotting fruit. I've offered to show her (Lenaghan) the bite marks on my children."
Lenaghan said she had problems with mosquitoes in the past because her sons had failed to bring the fruit from her trees inside "so I could cook it up".
Kevin said his mother was always in trouble with the council and "she tells them where to go. She doesn't like being told what to do".
Lenaghan was unhappy to learn she could face legal action. "That's bloody terrible. I will fight it if they do. I do think it's unreasonable because I should be able to do what I like on my bloody property."
"That's bloody terrible. I will fight it if they do. I do think it's unreasonable because I should be able to do what I like on my bloody property."
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"I will fight it if they do. I do think it's unreasonable because I should be able to do what I like on my bloody property."
"it's my life. I can do what I want."
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Juicy, Juicy info on this crowd
I have some pretty interesting information about this crowd. It does involve past legal run-ins, so maybe the moderator can email me and then you can decide if this info would be prejudicial to the upcoming court procedings. It's very interesting, but probably not surprising, given the attitudes that seem to prevail in this family, a trend that anti-skid well pointed out.
Talk soon Mr Moderator
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Talk soon Mr Moderator
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hmm ..
I don't think the right approach is to sit back and larf at these unfortunate people.
If you all seem so concerned why dont you give the poor people some support , help them clean here act up .. go around shovel some **** into a bucket for them and help them to recover what dignity they have left or simply leave them alone.
Surely they dont seem like the brightest bunch on the block but that doesnt meen they deserve to be treated any worse off.
I believe all people deserve a second chance, or a third chance in some cases.
/rant over
I don't think the right approach is to sit back and larf at these unfortunate people.
If you all seem so concerned why dont you give the poor people some support , help them clean here act up .. go around shovel some **** into a bucket for them and help them to recover what dignity they have left or simply leave them alone.
Surely they dont seem like the brightest bunch on the block but that doesnt meen they deserve to be treated any worse off.
I believe all people deserve a second chance, or a third chance in some cases.
/rant over
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Flyboy-nz,
You seem to have one hell of soapbox to stand on about some threads lately.
You must have plenty of patience to give someone like Kevvy Lenaghan a third chance, I know I wouldn't be so considerate to someone who has no self discipline and has a slack attitude to wasting thousands of taxpayers money with no real intention of paying it back.
Likewise to his Mum who thinks the world owes her BIG! and until we do she'll maintain an unhygenic property to the possible detriment of the community surrounding her.
Are these the type of people you would invite to be part of your community if you had the choice?
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You seem to have one hell of soapbox to stand on about some threads lately.
You must have plenty of patience to give someone like Kevvy Lenaghan a third chance, I know I wouldn't be so considerate to someone who has no self discipline and has a slack attitude to wasting thousands of taxpayers money with no real intention of paying it back.
Likewise to his Mum who thinks the world owes her BIG! and until we do she'll maintain an unhygenic property to the possible detriment of the community surrounding her.
Are these the type of people you would invite to be part of your community if you had the choice?
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S2K, I agree this knob tarnishes an industry which never needs it.
He had his second chance when he got on TV and made all pilots not just training lads and ladies look stupid with his comments.
Then he goes to court and pleds not guilty and elects to be tried by jury. This **** deserves any flak he gets
He had his second chance when he got on TV and made all pilots not just training lads and ladies look stupid with his comments.
Then he goes to court and pleds not guilty and elects to be tried by jury. This **** deserves any flak he gets
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Sqawrk 2000, with no disrespect to you sir you must understand that just because someone has made mistakes in the past (and may continue to make them), it does not mean there a complete waste, sure the people in question have issues and many of them may be ongoing but do you really think its something we are qualified to judge them on. There seems to be a lot of that going on.
I know Kevin on a first name basis, however I have met him once or twice before. He is not the brightest chap and I agree that he did not stand a fair chance in aviation as he seemed to me to be a person who was having difficulty understanding and processing information in the right format - If you get my drift.
From where I stand (and I know some of the people involved in this issue) is that he was targeted as someone who would be easily conned into doing what he did. He is and under educated socially deprived person, **** you could tell him anything and he was easily and un-suspiciously sucked in.
This case and episode is nothing more than someone using someone of a lower intelligence, someone who is desperate to get any where that is where they are at the moment to get ahead. I mean its nothing new it happens in everyday New Zealand.
I mean surely you can’t honestly say to yourself that the person on the news was in a right state of mind.
Maybe the blame ought to be laid in more than one place... Maybe the establishment that sucked him into the promising dream of an aviation career, even though it was clearly visible there was no hope in hell it was going to happen.
Get your facts straight people before you start mouthing off. I have heard a lot of bull**** based around this piece of news ( as the media is treating it) It half of you knew the whole truth about how the situation has arisen and how the event unfolded you would I'm sure have something different to say.
Surely we should see this as a time to look at how we can help these people as a country but instead we send them to court then lock them away for it all to happen again.
**** and the loan issue… The current government is wasting millions upon millions a year on plenty of other **** however we don’t seem to bite the pip over it. Maybe if that money went into a better education system and social development us wouldn’t have problems like this in the first place.
I'm not taking sides here guys I’m just taking it as I have seen it. There seems to be a lot of speculation and presumptuous remarks.
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I know Kevin on a first name basis, however I have met him once or twice before. He is not the brightest chap and I agree that he did not stand a fair chance in aviation as he seemed to me to be a person who was having difficulty understanding and processing information in the right format - If you get my drift.
From where I stand (and I know some of the people involved in this issue) is that he was targeted as someone who would be easily conned into doing what he did. He is and under educated socially deprived person, **** you could tell him anything and he was easily and un-suspiciously sucked in.
This case and episode is nothing more than someone using someone of a lower intelligence, someone who is desperate to get any where that is where they are at the moment to get ahead. I mean its nothing new it happens in everyday New Zealand.
I mean surely you can’t honestly say to yourself that the person on the news was in a right state of mind.
Maybe the blame ought to be laid in more than one place... Maybe the establishment that sucked him into the promising dream of an aviation career, even though it was clearly visible there was no hope in hell it was going to happen.
Get your facts straight people before you start mouthing off. I have heard a lot of bull**** based around this piece of news ( as the media is treating it) It half of you knew the whole truth about how the situation has arisen and how the event unfolded you would I'm sure have something different to say.
Surely we should see this as a time to look at how we can help these people as a country but instead we send them to court then lock them away for it all to happen again.
**** and the loan issue… The current government is wasting millions upon millions a year on plenty of other **** however we don’t seem to bite the pip over it. Maybe if that money went into a better education system and social development us wouldn’t have problems like this in the first place.
I'm not taking sides here guys I’m just taking it as I have seen it. There seems to be a lot of speculation and presumptuous remarks.
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Yeah!
Spend some of those multi billions the commy Labour Govt. has squirelled away on some decent fighters, some good clothing kit for the mud sloggers and some cool warships!
Get the operating theaters going 24hrs as well to clear the backlog!
Yeah, right!
As I think CT 7 posted a while back. It's the polytechnics that are conning poor stupid indivduals into/onto these money making (for the polytech) schemes!
But he's still stupid and in the wrong game. Plus he got caught!
S2K, check your PM's.....
Spend some of those multi billions the commy Labour Govt. has squirelled away on some decent fighters, some good clothing kit for the mud sloggers and some cool warships!
Get the operating theaters going 24hrs as well to clear the backlog!
Yeah, right!
As I think CT 7 posted a while back. It's the polytechnics that are conning poor stupid indivduals into/onto these money making (for the polytech) schemes!
But he's still stupid and in the wrong game. Plus he got caught!
S2K, check your PM's.....
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