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experience left me completely shaken and I bought cigarettes and when I returned home sat across the road from the house smoking in a stretch of grass and city property. Two young males (in their twenties) who I suspect smoke marijuana and dealt marijuana from the home approached me. They asked me if I smoked weed and I ascertained that the frequent and short-lived male visitors in-and-out of their property were probably customers. One of them asked me if I would like to come play billiards with them and I politely said I would ask my two female roommates and we could all go together. This is a way of not overtly rejecting a male while also appearing friendly. I told them both what happened with the man under the influence of drugs following me from the train station to the grocery store and made sure they were aware how shook up I was regarding this. They seemed to empathize with my experience being followed, so I left these guys a note under their door with my number. The following day these two males decided to yell “OI” at me loudly from their car window as they drove by startling me. I texted them (one had texted me after I left the note with my number) and I told them that if they are the types of guys who yell aggressively at female neighbors who they know have already been street harassed in the area, then they are probably not the most aware people and I would like them to leave me alone. The young male neighbor I texted called my phone and asked if he could just come out and explain himself, that it’s a common greeting in Australia to yell “OI” at people and I declined and said I didn’t want him to approach me ever again. I am actually an Australian from birth and lived in Canada for years (many people assume by my accent I am not an Australian and I do not believe that aggressive behaviour should be explained away by one’s “Ozzieness”). About two days later approximately July 12 at 2pm a man entered our garden in our unit complex and cut up my packet of cigarettes outside my front door with a whipper snipper. I went outside and asked him if that was an appropriate way to