Damien Saves The Day

Image: Kyle Danns’ backyard is no longer a torn up mess thanks to Damien Bennetts’ generosity. Photo supplied: Kyle Danns

When Kyle Danns and his family became the victims of a scammer, they were left $4,000 out of pocket with a torn-up garden and nowhere to turn.

“We’d been meaning to do something with the backyard for a while,” said Kyle.

Through a miscommunication, Kyle paid someone he thought was trustworthy to do work on their backyard before the scammer did a runner with his money.

“We spent ages trying to chase him and get in contact with him to no avail,” he said.

Kyle posted in a community Facebook group, hoping someone would be able to assist in finding the scammer, only to be told by many others that they’d been scammed by the same person.

One comment from a gentleman named Damien Bennetts, however, would save the day for Kyle and his family.

“Damien put a post up basically saying, ‘I’d be happy to come and do that for you free of charge,’” Kyle said.

“He came around the next day and he was awesome; he was so good.”

After a couple of days work, Damien had rejuvenated the backyard space.

“I don’t know what I would have done without him,” said Kyle.

“I didn’t want to go out in the backyard because it just made me so angry.

“Now I get to go out there and think about all the good people in our community and one of them was Damien who was just so generous with his time.

“I can’t thank him enough.”

Kyle posted to Facebook to thank Damien, in turn, garnering more exposure and work for Damien and his concreting business Damo’s Concreting Construction.

Kyle says Damien has definitely become a friend.

“He’ll be someone I keep in touch with,” he said.

“Whenever I go out into that yard, I’m going to think of him and his generosity.”

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