The lighter side of it all, good on 'em.

Subject: The lighter side of it all, good on 'em. Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:42 am

Intended victims nab late-night burglar

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Tuesday August 05, 2008
By Elizabeth Binning
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A burglar got more than he bargained for when he broke into a North
Shore home - only to be caught and "trussed up like a chicken" by the
occupants.The burglar is believed to have used a ladder to scale
the outside wall of a two-storey Milford home late on Saturday while
seven family members were inside playing cards and watching a replay of
the rugby test.One of the residents, a young man in his 20s who
did not want to be named, said his father was walking up the stairs and
noticed a ladder up against the outside fence."He went outside
to bring it in and on folding it realised it wasn't ours. That raised
suspicion and one of my uncles said, 'We should go check upstairs'."The
man's father and two uncles went to investigate and found two bathroom
windows open. They then found the burglar in the walk-in wardrobe of
the master bedroom."The intruder bolted out, pushed my Dad back and made for the bathroom which he came in from."The
men grabbed the burglar by the ankles as he was trying to escape
through the bathroom window and dragged him back into the house.The trio, who were being punched and kicked, then wrestled the struggling intruder to the ground.

During the commotion the young man had activated the house alarm and was on the phone to the police."My
aunty came to me and said, 'Is there any rope, is there any rope?' so I
ran into the garage and got some rope. I passed that to my aunty, who
along with my Mum tied him up while the three guys were on him."An officer yesterday told the Herald that when police arrived minutes later, they found the burglar "trussed up like a chicken".Detective
Sergeant Adam Lough said police commended the family for restraining
the intruder until officers arrived - something that didn't happen very
often."They have obviously been brave in their actions," he
said. "You just have to commend them. At the end of the day they have
found a person in their house who clearly shouldn't have been there,
and assisted the police to make sure he faces justice."The young man said the burglar was later found to have money and jewellery on him from their home.His
shocked family were coping "incredibly well under the circumstances"
but wanted to remind others to be vigilant, even in their own home.*
An unemployed 44-year-old Te Atatu man has been charged with entering
the family's home with intent to commit a crime, assaulting two family
members and injuring another two while trying to escape.

Subject: Re: The lighter side of it all, good on 'em. Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:04 am

Yeah! Bring back the biff!!

But they should have put the rope around his bloody neck.
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Subject: Re: The lighter side of it all, good on 'em. Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:57 am

Haha, I was there. One of the funnier jobs I've been to in quite some time.
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Subject: Re: The lighter side of it all, good on 'em. Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:44 pm

Should have hog tied him and put him in the freezer for a bit to cool off!

Subject: Re: The lighter side of it all, good on 'em. Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:28 am

Subject: Re: The lighter side of it all, good on 'em. Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:48 pm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4688329a12855.html

Of all the dumb places to tag, Napier man Whitu Greeks was always courting disaster.

It was bad enough that he targeted the Napier District Court
building, worse that it was broad daylight, and still worse that it was
in front of a security camera.

To top it all off, he chose a court with a famously anti-tagging judge.
Greeks told police later that he did not care about what he did. But
Judge Tony Adeane did care - and packed the 19-year-old off to jail
temporarily.

Judge Adeane has taken a hard line on graffiti vandals, winning support from local councils and residents for his stand.
In the past four months he has sentenced two graffiti vandals to 28 days in prison.

Greeks appeared in court yesterday and pleaded guilty to wilful
damage. He had used a black marker pen to scrawl two swastikas and the
letters I, F, T and A on a court wall about 11am on August 20.

Security staff were alerted and the security camera footage established that Greeks was the culprit. When police confronted him, he admitted doing it. Asked why, he responded: "I don't really care."

Judge Adeane ordered a stand-down report and put Greeks in custody
for two nights. Greeks' lawyer, Leo Lafferty, looked surprised by the
judge's decision and requested bail.
"He painted 'A' swastika 'T' on the front of this court building.
When asked for an explanation, he said, 'I don't care' ... Why should
he get bail?" asked Judge Adeane.
Mr Lafferty replied: "There was no substantial damage, there doesn't
seem to be any pre-meditation on his part from what I'm instructed sir.
"It appears to have been a spur of the moment thing and clearly it's been able to be remedied straight away, sir."
But Judge Adeane was not swayed: "Mr Greeks, if you thought the
message sent out by this court about graffiti in Hawke's Bay was some
sort of joke, you made a mistake," he said.

Greeks will be back in court tomorrow for sentencing.
Now this Judge, I like.

Subject: Re: The lighter side of it all, good on 'em. Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:26 pm

What a complete twit! farao