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…

New Zealand’s Toughest Town – Updated

This week on Television New Zealand’s Close Up: “Reporter Jehan Casinader investigates what life is like in one of our toughest towns. Sex for drugs and organised fights – and we’re talking about teenagers. What can be done to help?.” The show hasn’t even aired yet and no one know what the town is, but…

Car Mows Down 13 Year Old Girl During Brawl

More children and young people have been injured in an horrific brawl that took place in Hastings at 5pm yesterday. In what sounds suspiciously like a gang fight (NZ press now coyly use the term “group“) involving machetes and golf clubs,  a ‘group’ of youths attacked  17 year old Saili Fiso,  pushing him through a…