A family has filmed four teens threatening to kill them and attempting to kick in their front door of their home at 3.20am this morning.
The footage, sent to ninemsn, shows the gang terrorising the family of four for several minutes in West Kempsey on the Mid North Coast.
David Collins, 42, said a group of young people had previously set fire to a bin outside his home and police told him he needed to film their faces if they came back.
This time he was ready — but so were his assailants, wearing bandanas to conceal their identities.
"Where's your camera! Where's your camera!" one of the thugs yells as he smashes the family's front window.
Moments later Mr Collins walks up to his fly screen door and films the man — less than a metre away — trying to kick his way inside.
"I'll kill you mother f-----," the man can be heard shouting.
Mr Collins' wife Angela can be heard on the phone speaking to a triple-0 operator throughout the attack.
"Yeah I hear you, you white piece of trash!" one of the attackers, who are of Aboriginal appearance, shouts when she asks for police to be sent.
By the time police arrived at the home the men had left, leaving behind a damaged front gate, bent security door and a broken window.
Sergeant Chris Buckley from Kempsey Police Station said they had reviewed the footage and their investigation into the incident was continuing.
Mr Collins said he was frustrated by the number of questions asked by the triple-0 operator before a police officer was dispatched.
"You could hear these people were trying to get in, we have two daughters and they were threatening our lives," he said.
"We only live two minutes from the police station in Kempsey. The operator held my wife on the phone asking stupid questions."
He said the operator took close to three minutes on the phone before saying he would dispatch a police officer to the scene.
A spokeswoman with NSW Police would not refer to the specific phone call, but told ninemsn that before triple-0 dispatchers would send a police car they required essential information.
She said in cases of potentially life-threatening incidents dispatchers tried to assess the situation as best they could to know what they were sending police officers into and if they needed back-up.
Mr Collins, whose daughters are 15 and 12, said he was "living in fear" and wanted his family to leave West Kempsey as soon as possible, but his financial situation was making it difficult.
"My wife and I are both on Aus Study, we've got very little money in the bank," Mr Collins said.
"By the time we pay our bills, we're broke."
He said he had spent the day in Port Macquarie speaking to housing commission managers about finding a new home for his family, but was referred back to the Kempsey area.
"My biggest concern right now is the safety of my family. I'm going to try to secure the security screen right now. I don't want to be here and risk my childrens' lives," Mr Collins said.
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