Melbourne tradie slashed with machete defending home after police say no units available
A tradie in Melbourne ended up in hospital after stepping out to defend his own home from a pack of teenagers. He called the cops. They told him no units available. Hours later, the bloke is getting hacked with a machete.
CCTV captures the moment before the tradie was attacked with a machete.
This did not start as some planned attack. It started how this stuff usually does. A bunch of teenagers rocking up, pelting a house with rocks like it is a joke. He called for help and got nothing. Fed up and on edge, he stepped out to scare them off. These criminals did not care.
It started with rocks hitting the house
In Croydon, around 10:30 pm, a group of teenagers started launching rocks at the home of a 64 year old tradie. He came out, confronted them and made them run. Problem done… or so he thought.
A few hours later, around 2:30 am, they came back. Same group, worse attitude. This time it was not just noise. They came back looking for trouble.
The tradie and his partner did the right thing. They called the police.
According to him, the response was basically “no units available”. Not urgent. Not worth sending anyone. So what are you meant to do when they are back at your house and no one is coming?
“What are you supposed to do at that point?”
The chase and the machete
The bloke snapped. Jumped in his car and went after them. Found them, got out… and that is when it all blew up. They turned on him and went at him with a machete. Not a punch. A machete.
He suffered deep wounds, including a fractured bone and serious damage to his arm and fingers, and now faces multiple surgeries, praying he does not carry this for the rest of his life.
And this is where it hits harder. The ones who did it are still out there. No arrests. No names. Nothing.
Just a tradie who tried to protect his own place… and ended up seriously injured for it.
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A tradie in Melbourne ended up in hospital after stepping out to defend his own home from a pack of teenagers. He called the cops. They told him no units available. Hours later, the bloke is getting hacked with a machete.