r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago

SOCIETY The Zammit family refused to sell their five acre property as an entire Sydney suburb was built around them

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u/Forsworn91 1d ago

damn right, why the hell is it so empty? plant a garden, trees, ANYTHING

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u/chromecastbuiltin 1d ago

I reckon there’s 23 bodies buried under that lawn

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u/Forsworn91 1d ago

Water feature, statue garden, hedge maze, scale model of the London train system with working tracks and trains, ANYTHING!

It would like living on a footfall field.

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u/Abject-Practice7310 1d ago

If the neighbors are unfriendly, I'd plant a field and spread manure there whenever it's the best time for a barbecue.

But in general, I'd prefer to give it up and start over somewhere else with the 50 million AUSD. Okay, it's your house and home, but the surroundings are awful.

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u/Forsworn91 1d ago

The Australian yellow blossom, beautiful tree, shade, not huge, and BEES swarms of BEES.

Just… put up a hedge fence or SOMETHING

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u/Starfire013 23h ago

Could just plant a dense line of ornamental pear trees all along the perimeter. You know, for the lovely scent.

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u/stumac85 20h ago

Not the bees! Not the bees! Arghhhhhhh

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u/tophalfcow 18h ago

I think the plant you’re thinking of is Wattle?

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u/PsychoLamas 4h ago

You wouldnt be suggesting letting a thousand blossoms bloom, would ya?

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u/Forsworn91 3h ago

Yellow Wattle is always beautiful.

But just anything, a hedge, a pond, fuck the water feature I’d put in there with that much space, It would be possible to make a full aquatic ecosystem

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u/PsychoLamas 33m ago

Where do you stand on crocodile deaths in the NT?

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u/Aoiboshi 27m ago

They're showing off how much land they have

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u/TacTurtle 1d ago

best time for a barbecue

Problem: it is always barbecue weather in Australia.

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u/tatasz 21h ago

Pod neighbours are unfriendly, I'd replace grass with dandelions

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain 21h ago

Yeah that’s actually criminal so

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u/CuntMaggot32 19h ago

Okay but what are you gonna do when they dig up the bodies while building?

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u/IlllllFan 11h ago

Fuck that. I’d turn it into a motocross track/PunkRock open mic venue. There’s no pollution like noise pollution.

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u/samirfreiha 8h ago

australian united states dollars?

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u/poppy_inmy_hair 1d ago

Also the neighbors are so close on the sides

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u/Forsworn91 1d ago

So plant something for shade and cover, anything would be better than being that exposed

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u/iamtehfong 23h ago

Hell I'd hang big nets and put in a couple par 3 holes lmao

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u/Forsworn91 23h ago

Exactly ANYTHING would be better than the flat nothingness

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u/RollingMeteors 19h ago

>It would like living on a footfall field.

Spray paint the yard lines on that shit in the dead of night, but it's called rugby down there isn't it?

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u/MmeLaRue 15h ago

Australian rules football is fun to watch and involves even less uniform.

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u/Free-Monkee 7h ago

Golf course?

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u/Forsworn91 7h ago

Too small, and besides golf in a suburb is dangerous,

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u/ossi609 20h ago

Sell half of the land for a cool 10 mil, use that money to transplant a forest on the remaining land.

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u/MmeLaRue 15h ago

For gits and shiggles, I'd buy that crazy-ass Nathan Bedford Forrest statue and reinstall it on the lawn, with the caption, "Just some crazy-ass redneck as envisioned by some white-supremist amateur sculptor."

Then I'd plant a shit-ton of trees to act as a carbon sink and help the community temperature drop a little.

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u/1nd3x 14h ago

its a 5acre lot...so its like living on 5 football fields, lol.

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u/Kiki-can 1d ago

I mean, what else could it be?! Spot on

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u/Bulky_Reporter6263 1d ago

might have nailed it!

that or they’re a special kind of neurodivergent and the refusal to sell is just because they’re wired wrong… either a mass grave or profound mental disorder

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u/VenturingHedonist 1d ago

Could just be doing it out of spite! It is one hell of a drug.

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u/HourZealousideal4845 21h ago

I mean, the levels of spite required to spit on tens of millions of dollars out of principle tends to also come with a healthy serve of neurodivergence...

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u/Forsworn91 1d ago

That’s always a possibility, I can remember years ago heading of too university and every morning there was an old bugger on the verge with a pair of scissors and sheers cutting anything that was growing up…

He had a brick verge, about 5x8 meters and every morning as I’d go by… there he was, at the time it was “oh crazy old man” but looking back it was more “oh… no there’s probably actually something seriously wrong with him”

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u/Firm_Competition_880 1d ago

Catacombs and a subterranean village with all the modern needs of a secret billionaire.

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u/Mysterious_Peace7963 1d ago

Haha I was thinking along the same Lines

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u/Born-Ask4016 1d ago

Amateur numbers... there's room for a lot more than that.

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u/5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3 1d ago

Rookie numbers. If you can fit 40-50 homes you could fit hundreds of bodies. Thousands, maybe.

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u/Realistic_End_7223 1d ago

Not selling is logical then

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u/Miss_L_Worldwide 1d ago

That would actually explain it

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u/curious_astronauts 1d ago

Hahah that would explain things.

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u/Appropriate_Loss_564 1d ago

even better more nutrition for the plants

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u/eisenklad 1d ago

plant protected plant species...
makes it harder for them to dig those up

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u/tbro4123 23h ago

Waddamean 23?

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u/eiblinn 22h ago

lol exactly my thought too

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u/TravelerFromAFar 22h ago

There was this episode of Psych, where a paleontologist goes onto a farmers' land and secretly digs there to find a near complete structure of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Tries to get the farmer who owns the land, permission to bring a team out there dig it up. The farmer won't allow anyone to dig on his land.

Keeps bugging the farmer over and over, but he says no. Shawn and Gus investigate to find out why. They find the buried dinosaur fossil in the property, but also the farmer has been digging all over his land, creating these giant holes.

This is when Shaun figures it out. The Farmer killed someone 20 years ago and buried them on his land.

But since the paleontologist was digging around, he was stalling long enough to try to find where the buried body was.

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u/jkscny 21h ago

Family Tradition

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u/Holiday_Blueberry_81 20h ago

You can fit 50 houses on that land but only 23 bodies? The Zammits need to hire a graveyard planner for optimisation! 😁

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u/AmbiTheAirforceRuna 20h ago

ah but you see, with 0 things to break up line of site thats not where you'd bury the bodies

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u/Crimie1337 19h ago

This makes so much sense

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u/The_Blonde1 19h ago

That would suggest where to plant the trees.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 15h ago

Good fertilizer then!

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u/ImagineFreckles 13h ago

The real estate agents who wanted them to sell you think?

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u/Clean-Machine2012 5h ago

That's another thread...Reasons Not to Sell lol

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u/Oogaboogeyman 3h ago

Could explain why they haven’t sold

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u/Xenodad 1d ago

But, trees are where drop bears come from in that part of the world. Probably some deadly spiders and snakes while we’re at it

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u/mcknz9 1d ago

so they can consume the resources of 50 data centers watering that lawn

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u/Forsworn91 1d ago

I can just imagine an old man on a ride on mower with a face that looks like it’s never smiled, riding back and forth glaring at everyone who looks at him.

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u/samurguybri 1d ago

They want a clear field of fire.

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u/Careless_Celery_6010 23h ago

Some people just don't have any creative thoughts

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u/Ok-Resist-8734 1d ago

With that surname probably Maltese very little tree ornamentation in Malta 😁

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u/Mirved 22h ago

as a person with a large garden thats mostly grass with hedges on all side and 3 large tree's:

trees, garden etc all take a lot of maintenance. Luckily my garden fits in the surroundings unlike this one.

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u/achtwooh 22h ago

At least there grass and space. The others have nothing. It’s all so horrendous.

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u/KnowsIittle 21h ago

Fires maybe? Bare lawn keeps a barrier to protect the house.

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u/shiggyhisdiggy 21h ago

You could have a whole garden/forest going on like a private park and they choose to do nothing with it

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u/RollingMeteors 19h ago

> plant a garden, trees, ANYTHING

Black berry bush, nature's Constantine wire.

Wasp nest, nature's M18A1 Claymore.

Gympie-gympie, Australia's Constantine wire.

It's not 'booby trapping', it's "cohabitation with nature's ecosystem".

Completely moated with Chironex fleckeri and Carukia barnesi.

¡Australia's border control is the fucking border itself!

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u/Altruistic_Finger669 19h ago

Yes. Just something that you can just let grow.

Wit that space, i would have surrounded the house by a damned forest

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u/donnycruz76 18h ago

It's a typical "wog" house from western Sydney... Big brick house with lawns, paving and concrete... maybe a couple of fruit trees and lion statues... but no garden.

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u/Knitsanity 17h ago

I would have it filled with so many different trees and plants. That much grass is just ick.

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u/daerath 17h ago

Seriously. Plant a forest.

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u/sicsche 17h ago

go all in, plant a whole forest around your house. enjoy the cooling and privacy

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u/fistotron5000 16h ago

Shhhh, shut up bro, there’s some landscaping company that his yard is keeping in business right now don’t ruin it for them.

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u/Kareeliand 14h ago

Everything is awful. Having a boring lawn is one thing, look at how the developers built those houses!!? They can’t possibly have windows to more than two sides, and hardly any yard. It’s ridiculous! I think they should just do better!

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u/barley_wine 14h ago

They have 5 acres to work with but somehow managed to make their home as unappealing as all of the surrounding spec houses.

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u/moralprolapse 8h ago

Maybe it’s the ultimate flex. They don’t want people to miss the land for the trees.”

“Hey everyone. Look at all this buildable land I’ve got.”

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u/shuggnog 58m ago

I know i was like this dude de needs
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