A woman named Megan Perry says the neighbors who bought the land surrounding her rural home have walled it in with mounds of dirt and manure reaching 10 feet high. The mother of five has lived on her property in Dooralong on the New South Wales Central Coast for 12 years. However, she says everything changed when well-to-do new owners took over the farmland next door. A real estate agent has since told her the home can no longer be sold, the New York Post reported.
About 15 months ago, brothers Terry and Peter Karagounis paid $10 million for the 385 acres that wrap around three sides of Megan’s roughly $625,000 plot. Trouble began almost immediately, with motorbikes and buggies circling her fence at all hours. A camouflaged, army-style truck parked facing her house with its high beams burning through the night, she says, was a mainstay. Further, someone had mowed a motorbike loop around her home, stripping the grass down to bare dirt
Then the dump trucks arrived, she says, dropping loads of manure about three feet from her fence and leaving them there for weeks. Perry alleges that Terry plowed up the surrounding paddock and built the 10-foot earthen walls, which trapped the rotting manure between the mound and her fence line. Each new load came with a blast of the truck’s horn, she told the Daily Mail.
The fallout has spread across her property, Perry says, with dust coating the house, the pool left unusable, the tap water running brown, and parts of the land flooding. She alleges that one of the brothers now walks the top of the mound around her home at all hours, sometimes showing up at 3 a.m. to whistle where her cameras can see him. Perry has since been diagnosed with chronic stress disorder, and she says her family is now “too scared to be in our home.”
What Have the Authorities Done?
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So far, the story rests largely on Perry’s own account of what has happened to her family. Police have connected her with a victims’ counseling hotline, according to the reports, which suggests officers have treated her as the victim in the dispute. Whether any of the alleged conduct crosses into something police can charge has not been reported.
Perry says that the local council has declined to step in. That’s left her without an obvious way to force the manure and the mounds to be removed. Issues like this between neighbors can typically fall into a gap between criminal law and council enforcement, where conduct can be disruptive without breaking a specific rule. The brothers’ side of the story hasn’t been reported, however, so the claims against them are still just allegations.
Why Can’t She Sell the House?
A home does not have to be damaged inside to become hard to sell. Buyers tend to walk away from a property hemmed in by noise, smell, and a wall of rotting manure next door, no matter how sound the house itself is. In Perry’s case, the result is a home she can neither sell nor leave, with the family stuck on the property while the dispute grinds on.
Perry has described the whole thing as deliberate harassment of her family. She has said the noise alone has worn on her, leaving her unable to sleep once the engines start up nearby. For now, what happens next likely comes down to whether the council or the courts decide the mounds have to go.