new zealand incidents

What an utter spoon What next "Tit", "WNK", CCK", "CNT"? TBF he is a politican, so should be ignored. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/car-owner-wants-offensive-number-plate-taken-out-of-circulation/5NAAB2Y5I3NAFDBOLEEKCQXCMM/

So we have had three massive Earthquakes off of the East Cape and near the Kermadec Islands in the past 7 hours. The first was a 7.1 at 2.27 am local time, followed by a 7.4 at 6:41 am and an 8.0 a little under an hour ago at 8.28 am. We now have Tsunami Warnings in place for eastern parts of...

Fox News talking idiot, Laura Ingraham, has really upset Kiwis after claiming that we are setting up Quarantine Camps and imprisoning anyone that refuses to have a Covid-19 test and that Biden and the Left want to do the same in the US, forcing Americans to give up their freedoms. The reality...

https://reason.com/2019/07/08/noncompliance-kneecaps-new-zealands-gun-control-scheme/ Noncompliance Kneecaps New Zealand's Gun Control Scheme As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over. Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk...

The topic of guns in New Zealand is a current social and legal issue after the massacre of at least 49 Muslims in Christchurch by a white supremacist using at least 5 different guns. This thread is started as a place for discussion which began in the massacre thread.

This subject has been brought to a head in NZ by the inclusion of a trans woman in our weightlifting teams for the Commonwealth Games. Link: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/99544169/mark-reason-transgender-lifter-laurel-hubbard-carrying-the-weight-of-the-world She competed as a bloke...

Here is a fascinating story to dissect. It belongs here because the police claim he has breached a court order with respect to his daughter Que. A story that turned out well, did his 6 meter catamaran truly break its steering gear meaning he must sail to Australia? Remarkable in a pint sized...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=11766133 He kind of has a point to be fair

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/asia/new-zealand-earthquake/index.html

Just had word that there has been another major earthquake. are all our NZ members ok?

Just wondering if anyone else has been following the Pike River Mine disaster? In short, on Friday afternoon there was an explosion in this isolated coal mine on the west coast of the south island of New Zealand. Twenty nine miners are unaccounted for, and believed to be in the mine. There...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_distracted_driver

Can't really say much about this at the moment. I know this bloke and wasn't aware of what had happened until today. Life sucks, you watch your mum screaming in pain, then you go to jail for murder*. *I cannot see any other result, going by NZ's laws and recent precedent.

Excellent good news story for a change - an outstanding rescue from deep underground: A Kiwi caver gets seriously injured 3 km from the cave entrance - and this is not your pleasant wander-along cave, this is a fully-equipped-speleologist-type-cave, but a bunch of legendary Kiwi blokes have...

From This is True: WHAT A BUNCH OF GARBAGE: While waiting for a restaurant to cook his order, an unidentified man in Wellington, New Zealand, decided to clean out his car. He dropped his trash in a public trash can, got his food order, and left. But city officials sifted through the trash and...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6385071.stm 10m long squid. That's a lot of bait. It is also something I'd not want to encounter by accident whilst taking a swim off the shores of Antarctica. :boggled: If you are interested in giant squids, here is your story of a colassal squid...

South Park's "Bloody Mary" episode attracted a larger audience than usual in New Zealand: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3582068a10,00.html Cartoon by Ross Kettle: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3581029a10233,00.html

Hello guys. We're all aware of the mohammed cartoon situation; well this is whats happening in New Zealand lately: It was announced that in March a commercial tv station C4 was going to show the episode of South Park where the a virgin mary statue squirts blood out its ass into the face of the...

NZ jails Israeli 'spies' :roll: :roll: :roll: Caught out by a Kiwi Customs officer. Move over, James Bond! I hate to have to add this, but I can hear Skeptic lunging for his keyboard already: This isn't an anti-Israeli thread, I would have said the same for any country that allowed its spies...