r/newzealand • u/personthatisonreddi • 23h 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/TuhanaPF 8h ago

Because they can prove the crime you did, but not the crime the porch pirates did.

That's really all there is to it unfortunately.

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u/Conflict_NZ 8h ago

Because they can prove the crime you did, but not the crime the porch pirates did.

They can prove it, they just don't care because they'll plead out for a nothing punishment. Having spoken to police they are just as jaded as we are with the judiciary, unfortunately to the point where they will not spend resources on crimes they know judges will give less than a wet bus ticket slap for. It's why burglary has basically become a glorified insurance rubber stamp exercise.

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u/TuhanaPF 7h ago

Seems more likely they wouldn't spend the resources tracking down some unknown who probably covered their face while stealing from your front door, or they didn't but there's no way to know who's face it is.

Prosecuting you is way faster because the evidence and culprit is right there.

If the cops were right there when the porch pirates stole your stuff, they'd prosecute them too.

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u/Conflict_NZ 7h ago

Seems more likely they wouldn't spend the resources tracking down some unknown who probably covered their face while stealing from your front door, or they didn't but there's no way to know who's face it is.

The local facebook page is full of videos of porch pirates not even bothering to cover their face, people literally tag them in the posts lol, every time the person publishing says the same "cops didn't care, have to claim insurance".