A post by the woman\u2019s flatmate said that in the past week alone, a group of teenage boys threw water balloons at a woman reading in the park, and a carload of teenagers set off fireworks to \u201cdeliberately\u201d hit a man. <\/p>\n
Police told the Herald they were aware of several of the alleged incidents.<\/p>\n
Police said they received a call in the early hours of November 6 about a vehicle driving through Grey Lynn Park and its occupants setting off fireworks.<\/p>\n
There were no further complaints or reports in relation to the fireworks incident, nor any reports of injury, police said. <\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Anthony Darvill said police were making further inquiries into the report made about the attack on the woman at 6.45pm on November 4. <\/p>\n
Darvill said they are canvassing for any CCTV footage in the area at the time the assault occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice ask anyone in the area at the time who has information about the assault, or those involved, to contact us,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
It is unclear if the people allegedly involved in these separate incidents are the same individuals who attacked the local woman. <\/p>\n
\u2018I was in hysterics\u2019<\/p>\n
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was walking past the rugby club last Tuesday before she was attacked. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just heard kind of like screaming right behind me, and so I stepped to the side. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think there was like three of them on a bike and one on an e-scooter,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
She said the group looked to be 14-16 years old. <\/p>\n
Grey Lynn Park. Photo \/ Alex Burton<\/p>\n
The local said the group zoomed past her, and then she made her way to some wooden benches on the side of a hill to rest and listen to music. <\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t realise that they had come back and kind of snuck up on me because I literally just zoned out and kind of was lying in the sun with my eyes closed. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was lying on my back, and one of them punched me down into my stomach. <\/p>\n
\u201cThen I kind of opened my eyes and went into panic mode,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
The woman said the group ran away laughing, and then she sprinted to her nearby home in shock. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was like in hysterics to my partner being like, what is wrong with them? Who even thinks to do that? … I\u2019m a grown woman, I can\u2019t even think about what they\u2019re doing to people their own age.\u201d <\/p>\n
Following the incident, she said both she and her flatmate have spoken with other park-goers and neighbours to warn them. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnother lady messaged saying her kids don\u2019t go to the park anymore, they were bullied out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said that after the \u201cabsolutely brazen\u201d attack, she has avoided the area and is nervous about going out on her own again. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese lawless teenagers, they\u2019re just going to get worse as time goes on because they\u2019re just getting away with it every time. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re at that awful age where they\u2019re just going to get bigger and stronger as well, which is just a horrible kind of thought,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n