{"id":533249,"date":"2026-03-11T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533249\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:25:25","slug":"man-slashed-with-a-machete-after-confronting-teenagers-outside-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533249\/","title":{"rendered":"Man slashed with a machete after confronting teenagers outside of home"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Melbourne<\/a> man needs to undergo three rounds of surgery \ufeffafter he was attacked by teenagers armed with machetes who he stopped throwing rocks at his home.<\/p>\n

The group allegedly threw rocks at the man’s home in \ufeffCroydon at about 10.30pm on Monday before the 64-year-old yelled at them.<\/p>\n

The group left the scene before they returned at 2.30am.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe tradie took matters into his own hands and chased them around the corner in his car. (9News)<\/p>\n

The man and his partner called police and said they were told there were no units to respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tradie took matters into his own hands and chased them around the corner in his car to Manchester Road in Mooroolbark.<\/p>\n

He was then attacked with a machete.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The man and the teenagers were not known to each other prior to the incident.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The man’s partner said he had been left with “deep, deep, wounds”<\/p>\n

“He’s cut his arm, fractured through the bone and his fingers,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s just left us shaken, you know, he came home in a bloodbath.”<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

After Becker stopped a 14-year-old being robbed, four teenagers allegedly stabbed him to death with a machete.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Victoria Police commander Wayne Cheeseman said a weapon could turn a moment into “a lifetime of consequences”.<\/p>\n

“It can cost someone their life, it can cost you your future,” Cheeseman said.<\/p>\n

“I implore you to really think about the decisions you make.”<\/p>\n

The 64-year-old man’s partner called for change after the attack.<\/p>\n

“We need to change this country, we need to get the country back to the way it was,” she said.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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