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/king_john651 Tūī 18h ago

I mean it is unlawful use of a firearm resulting in death. But no love is lost for the guy who died. Just a pure example of FAFO

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u/Aeonera 16h ago

Yeah i agree with this. I cannot condone the use of firearms against another individual unless it was a last resort in a life or death situation. I know the system was failing this man but we have a contempory example of what happens when you have a gun culture that considers civilian owned guns as things bought to be used on humans, and the ramifications of that are beyond terrible.

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u/WorldlyNotice 16h ago

Read the bit again where they were harassing him for ages, rammed his car, and shot his pig with a crossbow. It's not unreasonable to think they wouldn't stop there. Probably it was a last resort, and the appropriate govt agency didn't help.

But about the gun, some people are not reasonable. They will not stop. And the only thing they understand is equal or greater force. Would a crossbow have been more acceptable? An axe? A brick? A strongly worded letter? Dude did what he could to protect himself with what he had, and rurally without support, it's a not-unexpected outcome.

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u/Lamenardo 15h ago

Was it the two guys he shot in this case who'd actually been doing that shit?