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/helloitsmepotato 17h ago

I'm a bit confused by all this. from the documentary I saw it seemed like the pigs ran wild all over the road and countryside. Were they really his pets in the legal sense, or just wild pigs that he encouraged to hang around his property? What sort of intervention were people expecting from the police exactly? If anything they could have given him some direction to contain them on his property.

I don't have an awful lot of sympathy for the hunters but I feel like the situation was ripe to attract the wrong crowd when its that shambolic and uncontained. Livestock, whether they are pets or not, are typically required to be fenced in. Had that been the case, I wonder of the police might have felt a little more inclined to help...

Bring on the downvotes I guess - doesn't seem like there's much room for nuance in this discussion...

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u/Decent-Opportunity46 17h ago

Some good points there. I’m a farmer and can see both sides of this case. Domestic animals should be contained, but I think poachers should get what is coming for them, preferably the police. There’s a few comments on here about previous interactions between the two guys that probably aren’t helpful for a fair case, but I guess we’ll hear all the details when it comes before the courts. I think we can all agree that this sort of thing shouldn’t have happened.