WAKING up to find a severed animal’s foot near the front door isn’t the ideal start to most people’s Saturday morning, but that’s exactly what Kent McNab was left to contend with on the weekend.
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Kent’s wife Dianne was about to do some gardening at their West Bathurst home when she saw the severed limb left near the couple’s front door.
She immediately called Kent who called the police.
Mr McNab, who has been campaigning for six months for Bathurst Regional Council to install a roundabout at the intersection of Lambert and Suttor streets, believes the “delivery” is related to their stance om the intersection.
While they have collected almost 4400 signatures in support of upgrading the intersection there are a handful of people resistant to the change.
“We’ve lived here for 32 years and never once had a problem,” he said.
“But while people have been overwhelmingly supportive of the push to upgrade the intersection with a roundabout there have been some against it.”
Mr McNab said the police were incredibly helpful, coming over straight away and taking down some details. They said said they would increase patrols in the area.
While the find was upsetting, Mr McNab said he felt sorry for the person who put the severed limb there.
“There’s obviously something wrong, they need help,” he said.
And given the location of their house, Mr McNab said the perpetrator obviously went to some trouble.
“They’ve obviously come in at night, but they’ve gone to some trouble. They’ve had to enter through the gate which has a chain on it and come over to the front door.
“They’ve had to walk right across the front lawn to put it near the door.”
Since the incident, Mr McNab has increased his home security and is getting CCTV installed.
“I just didn’t expect anything like this, it’s a pretty low act,” he said.
“But it won’t stop us (petitioning for the roundabout). We won’t be intimidated, we’re going to keep going. We’re up to 4320 signature, and we’re not stopping.
“At the RSL Club on Sunday we had people come up to us and say what a great job we’re doing. People are behind us, everywhere we go people are always thankful.
“We’re doing this (campaigning for the roundabout) for the community. It’s what people want and what the community needs.
“We’ve needed this roundabout for 20 years and there’s no way we are backing off now.
“This needs to happen.”
