An injured Elephant seal has drawn a crowd of onlookers at Goose Bay, Kaikoura. The seal crawled ashore with a large open wound on its back, probably caused by a spear-gun attack (although marine tourism bodies will be keen to downplay that aspect of the story). Read “Elephant seal with speargun wound attracts crowds in…
A lovely vignette of the New Zealand lifestyle appeared on the Trademe.co.nz forum today. Living next door to a myopic family with access to a rifle is not everyone’s idea of bliss, but still this person felt guilty for reporting them “Told on the Neighbours today… (Christchurch City) And feeling a lil guilty. We live in…
We’ve often blogged about the small tourist township of Kaikoura and its reputation for violence and crime. Tourists have been hospitalised by marauding mobs, visitors from Christchurch beaten and kidnapped, seals clubbed to death and vacationing US soldiers robbed. Then there was the immigrant couple, Ms Irvine-Boag 54, and her partner, Tony Neumann, 53, who…
A group of four or five holidaymakers from Christchurch were attacked by a mob in Kaikoura early on Friday morning. Some locals are saying that it was a gang that was responsible (possibly the Mongrel Mob) and it is noticeable that some media reports are using the phrase “group of people” which is usually press…
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