Beach jingle sounds sun safety alarm - NSW

December 12, 2009
The Sunday Telegraph

A BROADCAST warning about the dangers of the sun will be blasted out every hour at beaches this summer.

The Cancer Council NSW initiative will take the form of a five-second musical "sting" written by singer-songwriter Ben Lee and will be played over loudspeakers usually reserved for shark alarms and other danger warnings.

The so-called Sun Sound will be aired at Cronulla and Gosford city beaches from today, with plans to expand the program to all beaches, sporting events, pools, music festivals and playgrounds.

Its message, "be sun sound", aims to remind beachgoers to reapply sunscreen and be conscious of the amount of time they're spending outdoors during peak UV hours. It will be played on the hour between 10am and 3pm and less often outside of those times...

Sutherland Shire Council beach operations manager Brad Whittaker said the jingle would be played at beaches and four leisure centres from today as part of a year-long trial to improve sun safety.

Extra speakers have been installed at the beach...

Rowan Briam killed over neighbour noise dispute

news.com.au
December 01, 2009

A MAN has been charged with murder in Melbourne after a man died following an apparent neighbourhood dispute.

Rowan Briam, 38, of Alamein Road, Heidelberg West, had complained about noise coming from a nearby house eight days ago.

He died after an altercation, police allege.

Homicide detectives charged Tjay Tuncak, 24, of no fixed place of abode, with Briam's murder late yesterday...

Herald Sun

A MAN has been charged with the murder of Rowan Briam, whose throat was slashed after he went to investate a noise in Heidelberg West last month.

Charged was Tjay Tuncak, 24, of no fixed address.

Mr Biram allegedly heard a girl scream on November 23 and went to investigate.

It is alleged he was dragged into the front yard of the Alamein Rd property and his throat was slashed and he died in his neighbour's arms...

Herald Sun
November 22, 2009

HOMOCIDE detectives are investigating the death of a man who is believed to have complained to his neighbours about making too much noise late last night.

A 38-year-old man was found dead in the front yard of a house in Alamein Rd, Heidelberg West, in Melbourne's northeast about 11.50pm (AEDT).

Up to eight people may have been involved in an altercation that resulted in the man's death, Detective Leading Senior Constable Dale McQuarter said today...

Earlier last night police attended the house in response to a noise complaint from what is believed to have been another neighbour.

Sen Const McQuarter said between 12 and 20 people were there at the time, ranging in age from 12 to their mid-50s.

He said officers attended to the matter. A neighbour in Alamein Rd subsequently left his house to investigate the noise and an altercation broke out...

"It's a shocking thing to happen in any street."

Neighbour pulls knife on "that Nazi guy" - Cairns

Courier Mail
December 01, 2009

A SELF appointed unit block vigilante threatened a neighbour with a knife because he believed the man was continually complaining to police about loud music, a court heard today.

Errol Lawrence Lui accused the neighbour of being "that Nazi guy who keeps calling the police" before assaulting him and the neighbour's daughter.

The Court of Appeal in Brisbane, heard Errol Lawrence Lui was preparing dinner in his Cairns unit, in north Queensland, when he heard loud music coming from a car in the driveway, on August 9 last year.

He saw a man, who lived next door to the unit block, approach the car and speak with the driver who apologised and turned down the music.

The court heard Lui then appeared on the scene armed with a 30 centimtre knife and abused the complaining neighbour.

Lui ordered the man off the property and said: "You're the Nazi guy that keeps calling police."

The court was told he grabbed the man's shoulder and held the knife to his chest.

The man's daughter appeared and Lui put the knife away before exhanging insults with her.

As she walked away he thumped her on the right shoulder and said: "I know who you are and I know where you live." ...

In sentencing Lui, Judge Bill Everson said people were entitled to complain about loud music without "some knife wielding drunken lunatic attacking them and threatening to stab them"...

Neighbour bashes party goers - Qld, Stanthorpe

The Chronicle
26th November 2009

A MAN wrongly accused of dobbing in his partying neighbours to police used a large stick to repeatedly bash two party-goers in Stanthorpe.

One of the victims was so severely beaten with the 1.5 metre stick that police believed he had a fractured skull.

Stanthorpe Police acting senior sergeant Tim Dachs said another neighbour had called police on Sunday night to make a noise complaint against a resident who was holding a party.

Police attended the gathering and requested the group to keep the noise down.

Act Snr Sgt Dachs said two party-goers, a man and woman in their 30s, confronted a neighbour in Lock Street about calling the police.

This middle-aged man did not call the police but started a fight with the pair anyway.

He grabbed the stick and repeatedly struck the pair in the head...