3 thoughts on “Swiss Campers’ Tyres Slashed In Kaikoura- updated”

1. From the link Uniculture provided:

   A gang culture in Melbourne’s west was almost at crisis point with New Zealand families exporting their troubled teens into Victoria, according to veteran youth worker Les Twentyman.

   “A lot of these kids are being sent over from New Zealand because they have been involved in gangs there and its only adding to our problem,” Mr Twentyman said.

   “It’s almost at a crisis situation at the moment,” he said.

   This is obviously a serious problem for Melbourne if the situation is reaching crisis point, the city has had to endure the violence of New Zealand’s youth gang culture for some years:

   A YOUNG thug member of a gang linked to face-slashing armed robberies has turned fugitive in Melbourne after failed bids to deport him.

   Braeghan McLeod is at large 14 months after being ordered from Australia because of his connection to box-cutter attacks in Melbourne.

   An arrest warrant has been issued for McLeod, 20, who is on the loose after failing to appear in court over a burglary charge.

   Victoria Police has released a photo of McLeod in the hope it can assist in his capture after his failure to turn up for an appearance at Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court.

   New Zealand-born McLeod was ordered back to his home country by the Immigration Minister last year on character grounds, before a tribunal overturned the decision.

   He is linked to a gang, some of whose victims were left scarred for life after being slashed with box-cutters and bashed with hammers.

   The Administrative Appeals Tribunal later overruled the decision to cancel his visa and, within weeks, McLeod was charged with burglary.

   His behaviour since arriving in Australia aged 16 led to Immigration Minister Chris Evans’ ruling that he did not pass the nation’s character test.

   http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/police-seek-kiwi-thug-linked-to-gang-attacks/story-e6frf7kx-1225903680793

   Australia seems to be well aware of New Zealand’s violent gang culture. This was published in 2007:

   Gang violence marring NZ’s image

   It’s hardly the image that New Zealand authorities want to show the world – some 3,500 members of two violent gangs constantly at war in one small nation.

   Otherwise idyllic towns are divided by such enmity that wearing the wrong coloured t-shirt can get you killed.

   On Saturday night, a two-year-old girl was caught in the middle of the gang warfare, killed in her home by a drive-by shooter in the north island town of Wanganui.

   She was evidently murdered in a feud between the two largest gangs in the country – the Mongrel Mob and Black Power.

   “A Black Power house was fired upon and the information we have indicates that it was a Mongrel Mob member who was responsible,” Wanganui police officer Inspector Duncan Macleod said.

   It is still uncertain what sparked the shooting, but Macleod says the gangs are trouble across New Zealand.

   “It is recognised that they (the gangs) all have organised-crime connections. In smaller towns they have a greater influence than in the larger centres,” he says.

   “They do nothing positive in my view. They are only there for one purpose, to do anti-social and criminal activities.”

   The death of the toddler has angered people across New Zealand and led to soul searching about why the country has been wracked with so much gang-violence for so long.

   In February last year, a member of the Mongrel Mob suffered a serious head injury after a run-in with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in which shots were fired in Wanganui.

   A woman caught in the crossfire between two gangs was shot and wounded in Christchurch in 1996 as she sat in her car.

   In 1975, a member of the Highway 61 Motorcycle Club, Bradley Haora, was killed by Hells Angels members in Auckland.

   A riot at Moerewa in 1979 between a gang called Storm Troopers and Black Power saw an attempt to throw a police sergeant into a burning van. One gang member was shot in the leg during the incident.

   University of Canterbury academic Greg Newbold has studied New Zealand gang culture at first hand and written a book on the subject. His knowledge of the country’s violent sub-culture comes from spending five years in jail for drug crimes in the 1970s.

   “The story about the Mongrel Mob is that it was a bunch of young kids who had been released from a boys home,” Dr Newbold said.

   “They were Pakeha (white) kids.

   “The magistrate evidently referred to them as a pack of mongrels. This is the legend. No one really knows when it was.”

   http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/05/11/1178390519240.html

   Unfortunately warring youths from New Zealand are also involved with extreme violence in Australia’s schools, not just their own. There is an interesting discussion following on from this statement on one Australia web site.

   More of those ethnic gangs

   It was clear straight away that the extraordinary attack on teachers and students at Merrylands High School was the work of an ethnic gang, even if it’s taken until this morning to hear it:

   GLORIFICATION of American gang violence may be behind a horrific schoolyard attack involving five boys as young as 14 armed with machetes and baseball bats…. Members of a group calling itself Gee40, made up of youths from Merrylands and Guildford, carried out the brazen, violent rampage, pupils told The Daily Telegraph…. The gang – a loose gathering of youths who commit petty crime – is understood to be comprised of members of Pacific Islander and Maori background based around Guildford and Merrylands.

   http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/more_of_those_ethnic_gangs/

2. It might still be bad with ultrafast broadband as they would get into trouble as well….look NZ teens are blamed for Melbourne gang violence (http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/6567677/NZ-teens-blamed-for-Melbourne-gang-violence) so that constitutes one of NZ export industries….spreading ferally and virally…
   Kids would not change to better adults if they do not get good grounding from NZ. Something is seriously lacking in the NZ society, education and family lives. A teacher once said that instead of being proud of getting good grades in school, the underclass find solace and fame in doing some silly things like stealing the teacher’s pen, or doing some other vandalism for eg, breaking letterboxes and showing off to the classmates what they had damaged. This sounds like gang culture too. Just ask the councils how many glass panels for bus stops they have to replace monthly or yearly due to vandalism. They should start designing their bus stops without glass as tax payers eventually have to pay for such vandalism.

3. In that Reddit thread you linked to htttp://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/ev4df/wtf_is_wrong_with_kaikoura_two_gang_like_beatings/

   “If we had faster, unlimited broadband, this wouldn’t have happened These kids would have been at home playing WOW instead”

   That woud’ve kept the ****** occupied.

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