Night of noise prompts AOS callout

Drunk on his own home brew, Donald Alexander Gene Bullot subjected his neighbours to a night of noise and other bad behaviour that prompted a callout by the Armed Offenders Squad.

That visit to his home by the police led to charges of threatening behaviour and cultivating cannabis and – ultimately – a sentence of supervision, community detention and a $500 emotional harm reparation payment to his main victim when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Tuesday afternoon.

It was about 8.50pm on the night of Wednesday, January 17, this year that Bullot, 43, began a session of ‘‘appalling’’ conduct that left neighbours in his rural community terrified.

The exact location of Bullot’s offending, south-west of Hamilton, cannot be revealed in order to protect his neighbours’ identities.

Bullot is understood to have since relocated from the area.

Although Bullot’s home was some distance from his neighbour’s and enshrouded by trees, he was playing music so loud on his stereo that one of the nearby houses began shaking.

Noise control was contacted and after several more calls a noise control officer eventually attended and then left.

As the police summary of facts reveals, Bullot responded to the visitation by revving his Ford Ranger 4WD vehicle in the driveway and turning his headlights off and on.

He also revved up his Harley Davidson motorcycle, and took both vehicles out onto the main road where he sped up and down and did ‘‘donuts’’.

He also continued to play music.

The police were called. They told the callers that noise control had declined to return to Bullot’s house due to his aggressive behaviour.

For a time Bullot sat revving his bike up next to the letterbox of one of his victims.

He was heard yelling: ‘‘I gave you my f . . . ing phone number. Why didn’t you just f . . . ing call?’’

He yelled: ‘‘You f . . . ing maggot bitch. I’ll burn your f . . . ing house down.’’

He continued yelling such threats several times and other neighbours of the person being threatened also called the police, saying they feared for her safety.

The target of Bullot’s ire, meanwhile, was so terrified she started to physically shake.

Bullot then took off at high speed. Eventually he returned home and continued to play loud music.

The following morning, armed police paid him a visit. Inside the house, just off the lounge behind a false wall, were six medium-sized, well-tended cannabis plants.

‘‘He acted appallingly. He accepts that,’’ Bullot’s lawyer Len Caley told the court, explaining that the offending stemmed from his client getting inebriated on his own home brew.

Bullot was sentenced to nine months of supervision, four and a half months of community detention, and ordered to pay $500 in reparation to his victim.