Another Adventure Tourism Death In New Zealand – Updated

An Australian tourist, 38-year-old John Parisis, from New South Wales, has fallen and died whilst on a guided tour with Franz Josef Glacier Guides in South Island, New Zealand. Mr Parisis’s cousin, Tina Vasilakis, said yesterday Mr Parisis had been in “good health” and was “excited to start his new life overseas”  (Switzerland). “He walked…

Ministerial Credit Card Rort

Emigrants from countries whose MPs have been involved with ‘expenses’ irregularities may be surprised that ‘low crime, corruption free’ New Zealand also has a number of trough feeders. If you thought duck houses was bad how about visits to the Taj Mahal, porn and chocolate, massages and flowers? all funded by the hard pressed  NZ…

Car Bomb In South Auckland, Homes Evacuated

Police are downplaying the significance (perhaps because it took so long for them to respond?) of an explosive device discovered in a car in Otahuhu at 5.30pm yesterday. They cordoned off Princes St East in Otahuhu and evacuated around 50 homes in the Seaside Park-Brady Rd area after being told of a possible bomb in…

Granny, 93, Fights Off Second Home Invader

Staunch Gwendoline Samson should be given an award, the 93 year old grandmother fought off an attacker at her Papakura home, and it wasn’t the first time she’d had the experience either. We’re glad that she’s ok but disgusted that yet another old person has been attacked in their home in ‘safe’ New Zealand, we…