Tourist Crime: Pukekohe – Juicy Van broken into – €10.000 gear stolen. Updated

Update: Since this page was created it has generated a tremendous amount of interest. We’re hoping that this will result in the return of the stolen property. Two days after this article was published the local press finally got to hear about the incident via social media – further evidence that police still aren’t reporting…

Another ‘Real Middle Earth moment’ – father and child pulled from car and beaten with baseball bats in Palmerston North. And other crimes…

A reminder today that violent crime continues unabated in most of New Zealand’s small communities, large towns and cities. This is the real middle earth, more Orc than Hobbit. The Manawatu Standard‘s headline: Father and son pulled from ute and attacked with baseball bats in Palmerston North A man and his teenage son were the victims…