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Tuesday 1 August 2017
5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au In his sights: Leading Senior Constable Barry Judge waves down a car along Balnarring Rd, Tuerong. Picture: Yanni
Hisser out to nab speedsters SPEEDSTERS beware, members of Somerville Highway Patrol are out in force for Operation Hisser. Their focus is on the Mornington Peninsula’s rural roads with speed limits of 80kph or higher. They are aiming to ensure that drivers obeying road rules. In the first week of the operation police detected 120 speeding offences, two drug drivers, four unlicensed drivers, one suspended driver and seven unregistered vehicles. Sergeant Peter Martin said Operation Hisser would continue over the next few months. “Drivers need to be aware of the speed zone that they are driving in and always drive to the conditions,� he said. “Our aim is to decrease the level of road trauma caused by speeding and to challenge the belief out there that low level speeding is safe. “We will continue to focus on these roads to ensure that they are safe for all road users.�
Crackdown plan for ‘party’ houses Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has vowed to crack down hard on the owners of rowdy “party� houses – all too common in Rye and Rosebud – whose guests can make weekends miserable for neighbours. Loud music, bad language, yelling and anti-social behaviour late into the night, as well as parking problems in
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he said. “We are commencing with a negotiation process and we will speak to the owners. The crux [is] that we are making the owner responsible for the noise – not the occupier at the time because they are transient and it is too hard to take action against them. “We have the cooperation of Airbnb to have the particular property delisted.� Complaints from residents are more frequent during summer. Angry Rye resident Howard Dare told Radio 3AW on Friday morning
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one of them came out into the street and said he would kill me.� A 20-year-old woman came out to apologise and admitted there were 20 people inside. Noise from a buck’s party on another weekend continued until 3am. Although quieter in cooler months, the house is active “most weekends� at up to $800 a night, and continuously over summer when the owners can charge up to $1500 a night. Continued Page 5
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that a drunken guest from a nearby party house in February had “threatened to kill me� when confronted about noise. Mr Dare said the house with pool and deck had been used continuously over summer, and one weekend saw 29 cars parked out front. The owners say they stipulate that parties are not allowed, but that was hard to supervise. “One day in February the group there was intoxicated and making lots of noise. I rang the owners and they told the guests who had complained and
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