<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/sydney" rel="" target="" title="Sydney "><span>Sydney</span></a><span> man has been beaten up and left for dead in a park near his home after telling a group of partiers to turn the music down.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 47-year-old is stable in hospital after being found by neighbours but the incident has rattled the community who fear the worse is yet to come.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Late last night a 47-year-old who lives in a unit next to James Meehan reserve in Dee Why on the Northern Beaches called out to a group partying in the park, asking them to turn the music down.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/richard-scolyer-wife-shares-health-update-brain-cancer-battle/0c7a18d9-f5dd-4908-831a-3348784ee221" rel="" target="" title="Professor Richard Scolyer's wife shares sad update on his brain cancer battle"><strong><span>Professor Richard Scolyer's wife shares sad update on his brain cancer battle</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>One witness said they "had a boom box" which was "really, really loud at one stage."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Another said the man had been shouting from his balcony.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He went down to ask again but police say he was surrounded and bashed, ending up in hospital with facial injuries.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/northern-beaches-attack-party-music-sydney/3d538e62-41b2-4381-9561-9fd4188d1f65" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He believes he was lying there for an hour but we're to investigate that properly," Inspector Vanessa Robinson from NSW Police said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/vivid-drone-show-cancelled-after-technical-issues/1c556525-279b-4d4c-a1ab-b07959192206"><strong><span>Vivid Sydney show scrapped for good after drone chaos</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Councillor Vincent De Luca hopes the perpetrators are found quickly.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"NSW Police need to get onto this pretty quick, our community expect arrests and expect justice," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Locals are petrified to even take their dogs for a walk.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We have an epidemic of gang crime and that must be addressed."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/white-house-ufc-event-free-tickets-donald-trump-weight-requirements/b1ea47b7-a6ac-453b-b8da-f4127bce8e7b"><strong><span>Free tickets to soldiers for Trump's UFC event, but only if they are thin enough</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Incidents where a group target an individual is not uncommon on the Northern Beaches.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Some locals spoken to by 9News said they were scared, but Inspector Robinson maintained it was safe to go to parks.</span></div></div>