RORY SALAZAR | Property | Contact
A fiery exchange has taken place today between Betoota Heights-based archenemies Andrew Smith (55) and Frank Rigatoni (42), not that such a thing is anything unusual.
However, this latest heated exchange between the notoriously stubborn pair of suburban Dads was, according to several onlookers, part of an ongoing dispute that has raged between them ever since they became neighbours five years ago.
“They’ve been going back and forth about this stupid boundary fence situation for three years now,” nosy neighbour Susan Daws (52) explained.
“First, it took them six months to agree on whether to go timber palings or Colorbond fencing,” she laughed. “That morphed into disagreement about the fence’s height.”
Her laughter became a cackle. “Then as soon as it was up, they started arguing about whether it was built precisely on the property boundary or not,” she blurted out in between tears of joy.
The Advocate can confirm that the neighbourly dispute has progressively escalated to the point that whenever the two Dads are within earshot of one another, both begin scowling indiscriminately under their breath, and shoot each other evils above the fence line.
It is reported that on one occasion, during a recent heat wave, those murmurs became an all-out water fight as each man sprayed his garden hose at the other over the fence, with both hoses set to ‘turbo jet spray’, indicating murderous intent from both parties.
The Advocate managed to meet with the frustrated men earlier today, in what quickly devolved into another confrontation.
“You got your surveyor to move the property boundary line into my land,” Smith accused an already enraged Rigatoni over the fence while ripping up the survey plan in his hands.
“No mate, you got your tradie to build the fence 10mm into my land!”
Rigatoni screamed back, ripping up his own copy of the survey plan and throwing it like confetti over to Smith’s property.
The Advocate would have been forced to step in and physically restrain the pair, however whether located 10mm off the boundary or not the fence acted as a natural barrier between them.
The Advocate has contacted the Titles Registry of Betoota for any information they may have relating to the historical location of the property boundary.
No response has been received.
