Kaikoura police are appealing for help to catch the vandals that left a trail of destruction in the West End of Kaikoura last Saturday evening Car windows were smashed and planters ruined during the vandalism spree. In another incident Kaikoura man, Camden Lief Mitchell, 20 appeared in court and admitted willful damage after gratuitously kicking in the storefront window of a Kaikoura takeaway.…
Today we have some background to the issue of freedom camping in Hapuku. Read our most recent blog about the Swiss tourists whose tyres were slashed as they camped at a remote spot in Hapuku on March 1st, just north of the township of Kaikoura. It seems that freedom campers have been a thorn in…
Update 3 March 2012: For background to the issue of freedom camping in Hapuku read Hapuku Local Damaged Road To Deter Freedom Campers Know any more about this story and the people involved? we’d like to hear from you please leave a message. We’re saddened to hear of another malicious act against camping tourists in New…
Disorderly and drunken conduct among the town’s youths has let down Kaikoura again. A drunken brawl erupted outside of the Caves Restaurant late last Saturday night / early Sunday morning This report appeared in the Marlborough Express, again there are appeals for the people to take responsibility for their own actions Police are again warning…
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…
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