Mass barbecue planned outside complaining vegan's home

Thousands are planning a mass barbecue outside the home of a Perth vegan who took her neighbours to court over the smell of cooking fish wafting onto her property.

Cilla Carden became entangled in a heated dispute with her neighbour at the end of 2018 after she accused the Girrawheen resident of contaminating the air in her backyard.

“I can’t enjoy my backyard, I can’t go out there... all I smell is fish,” she told Nine News.

The massage therapist felt so aggrieved by the smell of her neighbour’s barbecue drifting into her garden she took the matter to court.

Her case was first rejected in January at a tribunal before it was again knocked back in the Supreme Court of Western Australia in July.

Following her appearance on Nine News, a Facebook event has been created for people to gather outside Ms Carden’s home on October 19 for a public barbecue.

“Don’t let Cilla destroy a good old Aussie tradition, join us for a community BBQ in protest of her actions, and help Cilla Carden GET SOME PORK ON HER FORK,” the event read.

The event has quickly attracted thousands of prospective attendees, with 4500 people saying they are attending while a further 10,000 saying they are interested.

Many expressed their delight in the comments section for the proposed event.

“This is a day to celebrate not only your love of meat but the fact that you can enjoy it no matter what a vegan tells you is right or wrong,” one person wrote.

People were urged to bring basketballs – a nod to another of Ms Carden’s complaints that her neighbour’s children were playing too much basketball.

Lawyer’s warning to BBQ attendees

As hundreds began posting meat-related memes and gifs, Ms Carden’s lawyer took tp the page with a word of warning for those planning to descend on her address.

“Any person who seeks to attend Ms Carden’s property on Saturday October 19, 2019 or at any other time in relation to this event or matter will be referred to the WA police on the ground of trespass,” he wrote.

“Security cameras will be installed to obtain vision of any person attending the property and the vision will be provided to the police.”

He also added that the matter had been “blown out of proportion” and his client has “no objection to people eating meat and no objection to people having barbecues”.

Many responded to insist their event would be taking place on the street and no one would be stepping foot on Ms Carden’s land.

Some did however ask people to bring industrial fans to ensure the barbecue fumes would enter Ms Carden’s land.

There was some confusion and concern from those commenting on the event that the group was started by a man whose Facebook page was filled with animal rights content and who had been actively campaigning the cause.

While Ms Carden said her neighbours were “deliberately” allowing the smells of cooking fish to enter her property, the family has since moved to remove their barbecue and restricted ball games at their home.

But Ms Carden has vowed to return to the courts to ensure she can enjoy her backyard once again.

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