Another alleged looter has appeared in court in Christchurch following the 4 Sept earthquake and the media are still having to avoid the use of the word ‘looting.’ It seems that a wheelbarrow has become the tool of choice in these raids: From Stuff: A 51-year-old Christchurch woman has ended up in custody after being…
Two news articles that both managed to carefully avoided the use of the ‘L’ word appeared in The Press and the NZ Herald today, both of them using the term ‘crime spree’. 11 days after the 7.1 quake that destroyed large areas of private housing and it looks like reports of looting are still being…
Ten days since the Christchurch earthquake and looting is still going on in the city. News reports are studiously avoiding the use of the L word (“police staff in the city centre have clamped down on any reports of looting…”) preferring instead to refer to the preying on earthquake victims as ‘burglary.’ A recent report…
The NZ Herald is today reporting that a whole street of damaged properties in the suburb of Bexley will have to be demolished after the land beneath them liquefied in during the magnitude 7.1 quake that hit the Christchurch area on 4 Sept 2010. Seabreeze Close, in the suburb of Bexley, yesterday had four diggers…
A massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck 30km west of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand at around 4.35am local time. Initial reports are that there are at least two serious casualties but at this stage no one is thought to have died. People have been trapped in some higher buildings and in lifts, a number…
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