Everyday is “Groundhog Day” in New Zealand

Inmate assassinated in under 40 minutes! 

Another prisoner has been executed extrajudicially in Auckland Prison.

A spokeswoman for the Auckland South Corrections Facility at Wiri said the man was “taken ill” at 4.05pm. “The prisoner was pronounced dead at 4.55pm,” she said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11622739

Man killed after bus reverses into him near Queenstown
The incident occurred at Mt Nicholas Station on Friday afternoon.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/78980026/bus-reverses-into-person-leaving-them-with-serious-injuries-near-queenstown.html

Seventh-generation dairy farmer loses land after bank forecloses
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/78946157/Seventh-generation-dairy-farmer-loses-land-after-bank-forecloses

Dead Bodies Everywhere

Another Female body discovered at south Auckland park
A 39-year-old female was found dead in Keri Downs Park in Papakura. Police immediately concluded that it wasn’t foul play.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/78956858/Body-found-in-south-Auckland-park

Deadly/ Near-Fatal Police Pursuits

Car involved in police pursuit crashes
A car that has been involved in a police pursuit in Northland has crashed on State Highway 1, north of Ruapekapeka Rd, leaving the driver with suspected back injuries. [As if the brain-dead pursuers expected any other outcome?]
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11623238

Kiwi justice leaves kangaroo courts gasping for expletives

Teen who killed Arun Kumar has prison term slashed
“Brain-damaged” boy who was smart enough to kill an “expendable” Indian shopkeeper [rather than a judge, police officer…] is to be freed after serving just a fifth of his 6-year sentence.  The boy was initially found guilty of manslaughter [rather than murder] of Arun Kumar at his Railside Dairy in Henderson, west Auckland in 2014.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11623298

New Zealand banks ‘used by Calabrian mafia,’ says Italian investigator and author
“The book ZeroZeroZero, published in English in 2015, explores the global narco-trafficking economy, cartel violence and the seemingly insatiable appetite for cocaine around the world.” http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/78809108/New-Zealand-banks-used-by-Calabrian-mafia-says-Italian-investigator-and-author

The author should write also about the massive cash and securities deposits in NZ banks made by corrupt heads of states, strongmen and senior officials across many countries in the world.

Vicious Dog Attacks

Teen and 10-year-old hospitalized after dog attacks
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11622604

Pregnant woman attacked by dog in Christchurch
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/78855448/Pregnant-woman-believed-to-be-victim-in-latest-dog-attack-in-Christchurch

Christchurch toddler hospitalised after dog attack
http://www.stuff.co.toddler-hospitalised-after-american-pit-bull-attacknz/national/78798136/christchurch-toddler-hospitalised-after-american-pit-bull-attack

Missing Without a Trace

Without a trace: 28 Kiwis listed as missing overseas
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/78813219/without-a-trace-28-kiwis-listed-as-missing-overseas
Even more frightening: Up to 550 foreigners are missing in New Zealand without a trace.

Man v. Train

Otahuhu train station closed after person struck by train
A person is critically injured after being struck by a train in south Auckland this afternoon.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/otahuhu-train-station-closed-after-person-struck

Today is DAY 120 of the latest TOURISTS or truth? campaign in NZ

To protect the tourism industry, about two-thirds of the road fatalities in New Zealand go unreported by our political police, and unrecorded by Ministry of Transport [“Minitru”.]

http://www.transport.govt.nz/research/roadtoll/

Blog estimate: About 900 people are killed on NZ roads each year. [Most probably] up to 260 road fatalities have occurred in NZ since 1 January 2016

Tactful Irish judge insults Aussies to appease a ‘fat Kiwi c***’

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In and around NZ in 80 seconds

A court in Northern Ireland has heard about a man who resisted police and called a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer, originally from New Zealand, a “fat Australian cunt,” the Derry Journal reported.

District Judge Barney McElholm told the man in the dock: “If you called a Kiwi an Australian you are very lucky he was a disciplined police officer.”

“Most Kiwis wouldn’t react too well to that [they’d rather be called a ‘fat c***’, than a ‘fat Aussie’.]” http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/76517787/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-kiwi-police-officer-mistaken-for-an-aussie

Blessie Gotingco killer claims police planted evidence
The Crown had alleged that Robertson, 28 at the time of the alleged murder, ran Mrs Gotingco down and broke her leg as she walked home from a bus stop. He threw her into his car and drove her to his nearby home where he raped her then stabbed her to death. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11584054

Police Appeal for Witnesses to Fatal 4WD Crash Near Dargaville
Forty-two-year old Anne Talijancich was killed, the 44-year-old male driver survived with injuries.

Two children, a girl aged 10 and boy aged two, were taken to Auckland Starship Hospital. The girl is in a serious condition and the boy is said to be in a stable condition. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/police-appeal-for-witnesses-to-a-fatal-4wd-crash-on-muriwai-beach-q10626.html

Tourist driver charged after head-on crash
A 45-year-old tourist, who was allegedly driving his rental van round a bend on the wrong side of the road when it collided with an oncoming car yesterday, has been charged with careless driving and causing injury, said Queenstown police, refusing to provide the tourist’s nationality.

The driver of the oncoming car suffered cuts and bruises, and one of the van’s four occupants, a 15-year-old boy, was knocked out and taken to Lakes District Hospital. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11584096

Who is dumping their industrial waste in our waters again? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11576955

Kiwi mountain biker McGarry’s father says sudden death “just doesn’t make sense”
The father of mountain biking ace Kelly McGarry cannot comprehend how his super-fit son could die from a cardiac arrest at the age of 33.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/76519631/kiwi-mountain-biker-kelly-mcgarrys-father-says-sudden-death-just-doesnt-make-sense

Another “unexplained” death reported in Wellington area
A woman in her 30s was found dead in her Constable St home in the Wellington suburb of Newtown Tuesday night. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/76509144/The-death-of-a-woman-in-her-30s-in-a-Wellington-house-is-so-far-unexplained-say-police

Auckland motorway gridlocked from smashes which close northbound lanes
Perfidious police say no one was seriously injured in three serious crashes near Auckland today. One of  the crashes involved multiple cars and a truck rollover have caused a major backlog on the country’s busiest motorway.

In a separate incident a truck rolled on the Takanini northbound onramp and NZTA warned it too had caused “significant delays”.

It followed a one-car crash on the Southern Motorway ahead of spaghetti junction.

Two in hospital after vans collide 
Two people have been taken to hospital after vans collided on State Highway 1 north of Dunedin, causing delays.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11583540

Car crashes into freight train south of Featherston

Let’s have a guess: No one was injured!!

“The car was written off but the train wagon only incurred minor damage including a broken air pipe. The driver of the car was not injured in the crash.”  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/wairarapa-news/76473048/car-crashes-into-freight-train-south-of-featherston

Deceased Wallacetown murder-accused granted final name suppression
A Southland man accused of murder, who was executed while in custody, has been granted final name suppression. He had been accused of murdering a toddler in Wallacetown, near Invercargill, in October.

Justice Nicholas Davidson made the order in the High Court at Invercargill on Tuesday morning. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/76473921/deceased-wallacetown-murderaccused-granted-final-name-suppression

Oamaru crash likely caused by tourist driver
An Oamaru woman suffered minor injuries after a 57-year-old Chinese woman driving a camper van allegedly failed to give way at an intersection about 1pm on Wednesday, police said.  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11584136

Car crashed into home in east Auckland
A one-week-old baby escaped injury when a car crashed through the front of a brick house in east Auckland. The family moved in to the house two weeks ago. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/76463546/car-crashed-into-home-of-new-flatties-in-east-auckland

NZ dumped an additional 200,000 tonnes of human excreta in coastal waters last year
The number of visitors arriving in New Zealand continued to break records.  Some 444,900 tourists arrived in December, the highest-ever monthly figure.

The biggest increase was in visitors from China, up 11,000 (43 per cent) from December 2014.

Statistics New Zealand said annual visitor arrivals reached a record 3.13 million, up 10 per cent from 2014.

The tourists produced about 200,000 tonnes of human excreta last year, which Mr Key dumped in our rivers and coastal waters.