Northland Supermarket Held Up At Gunpoint

New Zealand’s reputation as a safe place to live has taken another knock with the news that a Whangarei supermarket (above) was held up by a man with a shotgun on Monday night. Not the sort of thing you’d expect to happen when you’re queuing up in your slippers to pay for your daily milk…

Mob Fires Gun Into NZ Rugby Crowd

Be sure to pack protection when attending rugby matches in New Zealand, there’s more to fear than the throat slitting Kapa o Pango haka, because the gangs are on the warpath and their weapon of choice is a shotgun. Today’s Herald is carrying a story about a Mongrel Mob shooting at a rugby crowd in…

Armed Offenders Squad In Nawton, Hamilton

Within hours of writing about the Armed Offenders call-out in Kamo, Whangarei this morning there was news of another AOS call-out in the town of Hamilton. The siege has now ended but the offender escaped. Here’s what Yahoo News had to say about the incident, which may have had gang connections: “An armed offenders squad…

More Work For Armed Offenders Squad In Kamo – Updated

New Zealand’s curiously named Armed Offenders Squad (shouldn’t it be defenders?) has again seen action in a call-out in the Whangarei suburb of Kamo this morning (update – there was another AOS call-out in Hamilton later in the day) Residents in the town, located in the country which is supposedly ‘the most peaceful nation on…