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muriel_volestrangler

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4. Dumped New Zealand house 'returned to sender'

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Fri Dec 1, 2017, 06:21 AM

Dec 2017

Now the Stuff.nz website reports that a company has come forward to say that they had been storing the house for a year - which had originally stood on the plot in the suburb of Takanini - and were merely 'returning it to sender', unaware that the land's ownership had changed hands.

Rod Bray of current landowners Northbridge Properties said there appeared to be a dispute over payments between the owners of the graffiti-strewn bungalow and the contractor who had been storing it.

This led to the company dumping the house back where it came from, New Zealand Herald reports Mr Bray as saying.

He added that while he is "sympathetic" to the house removal contractor, Northbridge Properties would still pursue prosecutions against those involved.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42193221

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Entire house illegally dumped in New Zealand [View all] muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 OP

I've never heard that expression. My first thought was a house covered in flies. procon Nov 2017 #1

Ah - didn't know it isn't an American term too muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 #2

I live in rural So Cal, and illegal dumping is a scourge on our tiny neighborhood. procon Nov 2017 #3

We have cow tipping here in middle America, so I knew what you meant! Canoe52 Dec 2017 #5

Dumped New Zealand house 'returned to sender' muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #4