I was disgusted to see this story on the news. I honestly hope NZ will help catch this prick. I know the country is too P.C. to let the tourists have a “go” at him. But the idiot deserves everything he gets.

Two American tourists have been left high and dry after a New Zealand man they thought was their friend stole their car and left them stranded with nothing else but the clothes they were wearing. But believe it or not, the pair say the experience has introduced them to the best of Kiwi hospitality.

Read the Full Story at 3 News > National > Story > Robbed tourists’ view of NZ saved by Good Samaritan

Online buyers who think they have bagged themselves electronics at prices too good to be true, could be right. The team at TradeMe have led police to a Hamilton man they claim used fake identities to sell electronics at a bargain. The 29-year-old is also accused of hijacking people’s wireless internet connections to sell the goods. He is facing 46 charges.

Read the full story at tvnz.co.nz

You have to be brainless not to secure your wireless network or at least have a bloody good reason to have one that’s open.

I can’t believe in today’s day and age people are so uninformed about the issues surrounding an open wireless network connection.  Maybe I should believe it. There is an unsecured wireless network 2 doors down from us.

Come on people, It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to secure a wireless network. It’s not like you wouldn’t have got a manual for your router.

Women in Auckland’s eastern suburbs are being urged to be on the alert for a serial bag snatcher who has struck five times in the last few days.
National > Story > Women warned about serial bag snatcher

brought to mind, the amount of women who have their handbags sitting in the ‘child seat’ of the trolley at super markets. What’s even more surprising is the amount that you see open and unattended while the owner browses the shelves looking for the items they want.

I hope they catch up with this gutless moron, who needs to pray on elderly women.
Be careful out there girls. It could happen to any one of us, anywhere. I’m sure situations like this are not just limited to Auckland

Police say a young man who was shot three times at his home in Papatoetoe early on Sunday was executed while walking up to his front door.

Man gunned down at front door in violent end-of-winter weekend 

and

Police have spoken to a "person who is of interest to them" following a two-hour sexual assault on two teenage tourists at Tokomaru Bay, north of Gisborne.

`Person of interest’ pinpointed in attack inquiry

It makes me sick to the stomach to think I am proud to be a kiwi. Stories like this really make me wonder what this country is coming too.  Bring back the death penalty. I really think it’s time this country ditch the "slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket" justice system.

I know it doesn’t just happen in New Zealand, but I was always proud of our kind hearted nation. Though that is slipping away.

But I have to agree with what the Truckies in New Zealand are doing with their efforts to protest against the Governments increase of Road User Charges.

Read the 3 News Article for more information.