Browner_

... according to this Yahoo opinion , reacting to recent events including yesterdays murder in Auckland CBD of a "good samaritan"

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/opinion/post/-/edsview/53/1

Browner_

The full text...

NZ has gone to the dogs
By Ed's View

A hero is dead and it's official: this country has gone to the dogs.

Late on Thursday afternoon 44-year-old Austin Bernard Hemmings did what any good decent human would do when he stepped in to help a woman who had been assaulted by another man...........



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please see the link above for the full article.

bourbon-biscuit

Appalling with one p? You're dead right- we're all going to hell in a handbasket.

love30stm

oh here we go another Nz hate thread, of course nothing would happen like that in another country obviously

southerner

I was going to reply "Woof"

but its indeed a tragic case.

I don't agree with the sentiment of the article though...giving cops guns and introducing death penalties will not work.

Batty

My OH is a Kiwi and when we heard that last night he said 'what the **** has happened to this country?" - it's what most Kiwis are asking today. It's not that this wouldn't happen anywhere else, it's that it's happening here now. Sort of figures for the 20/30 years behind theory.

bourbon-biscuit

You didn't read my post carefully; I'm having no part in some ridiculous NZ hate thread. Crime happens everywhere, end of. There's no need for sloppy editing though

pixi-dust

My first thoughts weren't - what's happening to New Zealand?
They were for the man who was murdered, his wife, his children and for the lady who was assaulted. It's so so sad.
I heard on the news at about lunchtime that his body was still at the scene while forensic work was carried out. Can you imagine being his family, waiting all that time, knowing he was still there. It's heartbreaking.

crap coffee

just

weather....

weather

weather

windy

windy


windy

today

I

can't

stand.

I

wanna

go

back

to

the

UK

bourbon-biscuit

Erm, having just got back from a 6 week UK trip, staying in the southwest where we didn't get one SINGLE day where it wasn't thick cloud at best, rain and cold more often, I'd say you'd be whinging over there too.

Patrick2007

There was someone murdered in Wanganui too, gone to the dogs is right. Hate N.Z. thread my backside see what i mean about posters on here with heads in sand? Lets put some nice lemon tree pictures or snow and all be nice. Get real N.Z.per capita is a violent dangerous place wake up.

crap coffee

hey, I am just wondering why are you here ? are you planning to come to nz? or what ?

crap coffee

I am not a weather whinging person.

The UK isn't as windy as Wellington. You are not living in Welly so you can't tell/imagine how windy here is

Cold, cloud, grey, rain is all right. BUt. Windy (50 km/h) You'd find difficult to walk on the street. I am literally blown away - maybe it's my personal problem, mate. I am so tiny, so it's my fault

Patrick2007

Are u planning to come to the U.K.

Patrick2007

I think iam moving back to settle in Wellington. But not if it gets grey and cloudy though.