The essence of stupidity

Was talking to a mountain biking mate of mine this week & he told me an extremely scary story that happened to him last Sunday Nov 3rd around 3:00pm up the central NI, On the Poutu Canal dam, to be more precise.

He's not into hunting or shooting but is a very keen trout fisher, loves riding his bike, has a batch in Turangi so does the trails up there all the time. So was slightly bewailed when he popped up from the trail onto the dam wall rode along it to check to the trout down the end & was wondering why there was a large white plate with a orange dot in the middle of it in the scrub at the end of the dam, Looked over to see a guy laying next to a white ute on the other side about 2-400ards away, gave a wave then gapped it then heard multiple shots as he rode off.

Steve didn't really think about it until he was down the track & it came to him how lucky he was- But for fuk sake it's a pubic walking / biking area with multiple access points & this cunt has used a private forestry block road to access an area to shoot across the face of a Dam ( open to Joe public ) for target practice

How farken stupid are people, it boggles the mind to think a cunt like this has a FA licence & we wonder why the honest - sensible FAL holders are getting grief.


Cheers you farken moron

And we wonder why there's people creating groups like Gun Control in New Zealand.
I saw a similar if not worse situation where a bunch of drop kicks were "sighting in" a rifle in a stoney river bed with the very near backdrop being a well used road bridge here in Napier. After telling the group they should fuck right of before I call the police I checked the banana box they were shooting at. Not one hole in it from about 50y. Good knows where the bullets went.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5capbhKlVA
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Originally Posted by JaSa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5capbhKlVA
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When the bunds and safety protocols are followed, the cars are perfectly safe.....But I think I would be a little disconcerted to say the least.....

What if someone is transporting a giraffe on that road?
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or a poorly loaded "drop short" round

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Originally Posted by JaSa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5capbhKlVA
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Wow imagine trying to do something like that here. All the hand wringers would be rallying the troops.

This sign, erected by DoC used to be for a light no fires warning, is exactly 50 metres from the car park on Thompson's Track...directly behind it is about 500 metres of the track that cant be seen...all the holes are probably created by people who have been issued FAL's

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One of the roads here on the island has shotgun holes in all the metal powerpole shrouds, not just one or two but 10? Poles all with multiple blasts in them.

There are idiots everywhere, as usual its the few that give the majority a bad name

This is why the new arms amendment has provisions such as shooting only on a designated range, and this is also a big part of why the average firearms owner is public enemy number one in the eyes of the general public, because let's face it, there are way too many trigger happy retards with firearms licences that dont have easy access to places to shoot so everytime they get their firearm out they feel some kind of insatiable urge to shoot it, at anything. I went on a "forum organized hunting trip" (fishnhunt forum) back in the day, and the same assholes that spouted all the dribble about being safe and "you should have the bolt removed" when they saw photos on the forum, were the very same retards that got pissed up at a road end and began shooting bottles and road signs, these guys were all well old enough to know better also and myself and one of the other younger fellas ended up leaving at that point.

Pisses me off to no end when I see stuff like this. The last dam up at Mangahao has plenty of shot up signs and lake level marker posts, even the equipment housing shed affixed to the top of the dam centred in the middle along the walkway has bullet holes thru it :angry: My son if with me bears the brunt of my rant (when cornered in the car on the homeward drive) about what type of fu#ckwits who do this stuff and brings shame and poor public perception upon the honest law abiding gun owners.

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Originally Posted by mimms2

Are you sure they weren't the police? :XD:

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Not sure. Better way to tell would be look around where they were shooting from. If you find a spare glock on the ground then you can say "yes"....(Or a puddle of blood from the butt shot victim....)

I saw a logging trucks next Xkm sign in the Marlb sounds full of bullet / buck shot holes outside a village. When I mentioned it, I was told the holes had occurred when it was at a logging site when some "off duty staff" had returned and did not have a target. safely used as a target but stupidly used something that was not theirs....) The damaged sign was then used at its new location making it look like someone had been shooting in the village.
Now there's two lots of cocks to say thank you to- the ones who could not find a target, and the ones who decided to place the shot sign in public view making it look like more cocks...

Neyou are going south past Otara, take the off ramp (444) and look at the sign....
Two shotgun blasts into it, and the petrol station, wendys restaurant etc re right behind it.

The local Killer Bees and Tribesmen are perforating each other recently.

Im surprised that sign is not in the news yet

Thanks for the replies guys, Sadly it seems a far to regular occurrence, I won't "like" any of ya post's as it kinda goes against my idea of liking something, if ya get my drift lol.

The older I get the more I realise just how many stupid f-wits there are in the world, We've all seen road signs with bullet holes in em, a farming mate even rang the local Cops once when he had some fullas doing it below his house & they weren't even interested, I wonder if that has changed after the last few months ?

The one right beside my letterbox actually has a hole in it, was there when we came though. @Philipo I dont know if you can remember at our last place where we had that pond down the end of the farm down the hill from where I shot that black rabbit? The pump shed sitting on that pond is full of bullet holes from idiots going into the rakaia river bed and shooting at it. During duck shooting season we had cows down there and were shifting them one day when BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!! Out of the scrub in the riverbed right near us, one pair of paradise ducks flys off up into the air unscathed and then the sound of pellets hitting that shed and a whole heap skipping across the pond also, whoever they were must have known we were there as we were making enough noise on the bikes shifting cows etc, must have been shooting at ducks on the water in the riverbed also for the shots to come across that low. I know who they were but not by name, modern Nissan Patrol in gold colour with roof cage on it, used to see it go down there all the time, pretty distinctive vehicle dont see many of them about, I wouldn't be surprised if someone on here knows who they are. Idiots

There's idiots in all walks of life where people lack a degree of integrity and/or morale's where they think if they can get away with it then they'll do it hence why there's shot up signs, poaching, leaving rubbish in the bush, a carcass in the middle of a camp site or any other un hunter like behavior!

Yep, its friggen embarrassing seeing shot up road signs.
There are some just outside Pukekohe, on main roads (100 km/h).

Have seen a few around. Really don't understand the thought process apart from that they're idiots.

How hard is it to find a decent bank and a proper target if you're not going to be going to the range.

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Originally Posted by 40mm

Neyou are going south past Otara, take the off ramp (444) and look at the sign....
Two shotgun blasts into it, and the petrol station, wendys restaurant etc re right behind it.

The local Killer Bees and Tribesmen are perforating each other recently.

Im surprised that sign is not in the news yet

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Don't worry man, the gangs won't have guns anymore now that the police have asked them nicely to give them back

Gun Control NZ have probably never been out of Auckland and the new laws are intended to destroy shooting as a sport in NZ not as a reaction to shot road signs FFS

Unfortunately some idiots will always slip through the cracks but it seems recently it's not just idiots but more serious threats.

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This sign, erected by DoC used to be for a light no fires warning, is exactly 50 metres from the car park on Thompson's Track...directly behind it is about 500 metres of the track that cant be seen...all the holes are probably created by people who have been issued FAL's

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Some are a little amusing though. There's a speed sign on the desert road that says "100 it's not a target" and there's half a dozen bullet holes in the target on the sign.

Bloody unbelievable . Not much you can do about clowns and the best thing is not to claim ownership of them or worry about what gun control mobs think.Gun control mobs want to ban guns even when they are used properly. Some of the Aussie forums here the fellas talk about " the bad apples in our ranks and how we have to take ownership and look at ways to stop them". I say I am not interested in what they shoot up with their guns anymore than I would care if a guy broke a shop window to steal a TV, using the same brand of golf club I own. If the anti mobs want someone to blame they can get the ministers for education or family services on the mat, ask them why we are putting out a generation of nitwits with no social values. Someone else can step in the firing line for a change instead of the go-to method of blaming people who just happened to buy a similar sporting implement.

It seems like every second road/DOC sign out in the country is peppered with bullet holes.

I was hunting a small bush block in Southland a year or so ago, and the DOC sign right at the front of the track was shot up. 1m to the right of it was a small overbridge (over a creek) meant for walkers/hikers. That overbridge is the only way in/out of that place from the main car park (if you're accustomed to following trails - as most walkers are). Had someone walked off the bridge as someone had been shooting at the sign, they would most likely have copped it.

Fucking dangerous idiots are everywhere Phil. The sign at the top of the hill behind me is peppered to hell with shot.

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Originally Posted by small_caliber

This type of irresponsibility has been happening for years, and the changes proposed in the Bill aren't in relation to this type of behaviour.

The changes proposed in the Bill are due to Tarrant being a member of a shooting club, and the proposed changes say that all firearms owners are required to act in the interests of public safety, so in effect report other club members so they can have their firearms and license taken off them.

The reason for a "qualified range manager" is to have someone to question and point the finger at if another person like Tarrant came to NZ and the same thing happened.

I was recently talking to a farmer about the proposed changes if the Bill goes through, he has an area on his farm for the locals to use to sight in their rifles, it isn't a certified range but it means the community has somewhere safe to go to shoot. He said he wouldn't be paying for certification and if the range closed it would mean people would be out shooting road signs and at road ends again.

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It's all BS, the club Tarrant belonged to was checked by police after Breidahl's online rant and passed with flying colours.

There is no need for any clampdown on shooting clubs, and the example of the helpful farmer you give shows exactly what's going to happen: sighting in on public land, and less skilled shooters, who sometimes may take bad shots at animals.