Gang Of Foxes Leaves Pensioners Fuming By Terrorising Street And Invading Homes

A group of pensioners are at their wits’ end after being terrorised by a gang of foxes for the last 12 months.

The animals have caused hundreds of pounds in damage, invaded homes – and even bit through a car’s brake cables.

Those living in a usually quiet street in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, say the normally nocturnal animals even spend the day marauding the area.

Elderly resident Christine Turnbull, 71, was horrified when a fox climbed through her window and tried to sit on her bed.

She said: “They are becoming a real nuisance. Some of them are as big a Labrador and they leave droppings all over my garden.

"They’ve chewed through my garden lights and digging in my flower pots, I like them but they are the most appalling nuisance.

A fox lurks outside a home (SWNS)

"Last week I had to stop my car because five of them were just lounging in the street.

"I found one stretched across my bonnet one morning. I shooed it off but they are very domesticated. They really don’t take any notice of you.

"Last summer one of the foxes came into my bedroom through the window. I started screaming at it and it fled quite suddenly."

The residents live in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex (SWNS)

Earlier this month Daryl Mann attempted to drive his car to work when he realised brake fluid had leaked all over his driveway – after being chewed on by one of the dozen foxes that constantly loiter outside his house.

The residents have slammed the owner of a patch of private wasteland where the foxes live.

The animals have been invading homes and chewing through cables (SWNS)

A large family of the rouge animals are often seen burrowing into holes in the barren land which was purchased by a private buyer who planned to build a bungalow.

Another resident, Brian Hodder Clyne, said: "I’ve had problems for years, the foxes are causing havoc.

"The phone cable comes in from the outside and they ripped the box out and I lost the phone line for about a week.

"They ripped the felt off the shed roof and even though I’d fixed it, they came and ripped it off again.

Foxes ripped apart one resident’s shed roof (SWNS)

"They get into everybody’s garden all the time. They’re not vicious, if anything they are over friendly.”

Adur District Council said it is looking to fine people who attract the pests to the area by feeding foxes, but they have no power to remove them.

A spokesperson said: "We will maintain a focus on finding out who is feeding the foxes and on asking landowners to keep waste ground tidied, reduce ground cover and separately to find out from planning colleagues the timescale for redevelopment of this site.

The foxes leave droppings all over (SWNS)

"We will also continue to investigate a possible littering offence concerning one or two members of the public, who do not live in the area, but are feeding the foxes.”