“What Are You Doing In OUR Town?”

A group of visitors to Kawakawa’s iconic Hundertwasser toilets got rather more than a ‘traditional Kiwi welcome’ as they visited the facility late Tuesday afternoon. A couple of (local?) thugs decided to beat and rob them. The assault was covered by the Northern Advocate, which said that the group was on a scavenger hunt, for…

English Tourist Mugged In Gisborne

An English tourist was mugged by a man who stole her handbag in Gisborne last night, according to The Herald: “The woman briefly struggled with the male robber about 10.30pm on Gladstone Road, between Gray and Cobden Streets, police said. The robber was found in a car about half an hour later by a police…

Czech Tourist, Jan Fakotor, Stabbed In Motueka – updated

Another foreign tourist has been attacked in his room at a backpackers whilst holidaying in New Zealand. Jan Fakotor, from the Czech Republic was attacked by a New Zealand man, described as “an odd ginger man in spectacles”. An American back packer, Matt Sullivan, saw the attack on his room mate at the Hat Trick…

French Tourists Thought They Were Going To Die

The three French tourists beaten during a campervan robbery in  Mangamuka, Northland, have spoken to stafff at the Dominion Post about their ordeal. The paper has named the men as Antonin Schopfer, 27, Guillaume Rey, 26, and Sebastien Vautier, 29.  The friends say that the men who attacked them were posing as police officers. “The…