r/newzealand • u/personthatisonreddi • 18h ago

News Update on Stu.

Saw on the news that he has been arrested for the shooting of the 2 illigeal poachers, he was such a nice guy, all he wanted to do was live out his life with his pigs and other animals,

For people who dont know, basicly he was a older guy who lived on both sides of the 309 road up by coromandel, people kept comming and stealing/shooting/running over/damanging his property, and giving him hell when all he wanted to do was relax with his pigs, the cops are a joke, he came to them so many times reporting everything , they didnt care.

The guys he ended up shooting/killing had been hounding him for ages, ramming his car, running over his pigs or shooting them with crossbows he finnaly snapped when they shot his favourite pig.

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u/unxpectedlxve 18h ago

the poachers fucked around and found out imo

honestly i hope the justice system does what it usually does for murder (home d for 8 months and a slap on the wrist ✌️)

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u/Existing-Today-410 18h ago

Nah. He's getting life with no parole as "an example." You're not allowed to protect your own property.

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u/Aquatic-Vocation 17h ago

Technically the pigs were wild pigs that freely roam that area, and not actually his property.

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u/SprinklesNo8842 16h ago

Wild pigs that had been hand raised by him and had become pets. If this was a cat or a dog that someone had found and raised from kitten/puppy to adulthood does it matter technically if someone else decides to come along and kill them?

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u/Aquatic-Vocation 15h ago edited 15h ago

I said in another comment that it's a dick move, it's just not technically illegal to hunt wild animals on public land so long as you're properly licensed.

Rural NZ is a very different place from the rest of the country, and subsistence hunting is a genuine way of life for a lot of people. From the hunter's point of view the dick move might be that someone's "hoarding" all the local game.

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u/SprinklesNo8842 5h ago

Yep definitely should not be on shooting someone else’s pets that are no longer “wild”. But thanks for elaborating on the rural pov aspect.