A stand­off be­tween Green­vale, La Hor­quet­ta res­i­dents over the dis­tri­b­u­tion of Lensyl mat­tress­es had to quelled by po­lice yes­ter­day.

This af­ter res­i­dents of Car­li Av­enue West and Jasper Av­enue en­gaged in a heat­ed de­bate with vol­un­teers from Lensyl over the man­ner the mat­tress­es and pil­lows would be dis­trib­uted.

The res­i­dents who lived on the west­ern end of Green­vale ex­pressed frus­tra­tion that they had gen­er­al­ly been over­looked for mat­tress­es, not­ing pre­vi­ous de­liv­er­ies had been dropped off at homes clos­er to the com­mu­ni­ty’s main en­trance fur­ther east.

Many res­i­dents fol­lowed the truck, dri­ven by Shane Sookram, as it made its way up to the cor­ner of the Car­li Av­enue West and Jasper Av­enue. There, a tense ne­go­ti­a­tion took place be­tween the vol­un­teers and res­i­dents.

At one point, a res­i­dent even mount­ed the truck, de­mand­ing the vol­un­teers drop one of the mat­tress­es at his house.

Po­lice even­tu­al­ly in­ter­vened, al­low­ing for mat­tress­es to be of­floaded by the truck. Each house­hold was then al­lowed one mat­tress.

The vol­un­teers told the T&T Guardian the com­pa­ny had made the mat­tress­es yes­ter­day morn­ing with the af­fect­ed res­i­dents in mind.

“I vol­un­teer to come out here, peo­ple like gang­ster­ing me for the stuff, mat­tress. It’s a good deed I do­ing here, you shouldn’t be get­ting on so,” said Sookram, whose home in Ca­roni had al­so been flood­ed out over the week­end.

Sookram, Samuel Lewis and Nicholas Simp­son said they met up at Lensyl at 6.30 am and de­cid­ed to make the mat­tress­es for those in need.

“We come to work and we mak­ing these mat­tress­es be­cause we see the need for them to have these mat­tress­es. Them mat­tress and them fresh, make this morn­ing,” Lewis said.

How­ev­er, the res­i­dents ob­ject­ed to their ini­tial plan of dis­tri­b­u­tion when they ar­rived in Green­vale hours lat­er.

“It don’t have enough for every­body, we try­ing to give the needy, which is like peo­ple with chil­dren,” Sookram told the res­i­dents who gath­ered around the truck.

Af­ter re­al­is­ing just how needy the res­i­dents were, how­ev­er, the Lensyl vol­un­teers said they would re­turn to the area to­day.