9:00a.m. 8th January 2009

| By Mark Bode

Angry Nambour Caravan Park Residents Alicia Kelly with daughter Danika. Photo: Cade Mooney/180285

A group of enraged Nambour Caravan Park residents are engaged in a bitter battle with the park’s equally irate managers.

Residents say they are fighting the oppressive and discriminatory polices implemented by new managers Trevor and Lesley Dymock in the past three months.

They have even accused Mr Dymock of brandishing a baseball bat when he evicts people.

Mr and Mrs Dymock, who are managing a caravan park for the first time, said the park was infested with an unsavoury element that did not like rules and had to be rooted out.

Residents accused the Dymocks of trying to force people out by making living conditions at the park intolerable.

They claimed the husband and wife were employing intimidatory tactics and spreading lies in an attempt to turn other residents against them.

They also said the Dymocks had slugged them with unfair service fees, passed on their personal details to Nambour police and asked them to state on an official form if they had a criminal record.

Residents said the condition of some of the accommodation was deplorable and the smell of sewage was sickening.

“There’s a lot of intimidation and bullying going on,” resident Kristina Tucker said.

“The only reason I live here is because I can’t afford to live anywhere else, and it’s the same for a lot of people here.

“I don’t feel I should be intimidated.”

Gordon Ritchie, who has lived at the park for four years, said he felt like the Dymocks were trying to force him out by circulating lies about him.

“Most people are too frightened to say anything,” he said.

“They’re trying to get rid of people they deem to be unsatisfactory.”

Mr Dymock, who said he hated his job, denied carrying a baseball bat during evictions but added he was determined to get rid of the “troublemakers”.

“This mob here will be leaving,” he said, in reference to a small group of residents assembled outside the office.

Mrs Dymock said she and her husband were “cleaning up” the park and a small percentage of residents was unhappy because they could no longer do what they liked.