Shots fired at surfers off Taharoa coast

Shots fired at surfers off Taharoa coast

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...-taharoa-coast

PHILLIPA YALDEN
Last updated 13:27, August 20 2018

Shots were fired at surfers in the waters off the west coast by someone police believe took exception to using "their waters".

Two friends and one of their sons were out surfing off the Taharoa coast, south of Kāwhia, last Thursday when they were shot at.

One of the bullets hit the water about two metres away from the high school student.

Waikato police Senior Sergeant Mike Henwood confirmed the incident, saying the group had taken jetskis out to go surfing off Te Māika point last Thursday morning.

They were on their boards when they reported being shot at from shore, he said.

Terrified, the group left the area.

Kawhia police Constable John Maoate believes someone has taken exception to "strangers" using "their" water, he said in a Waikato police post.

The shots allegedly come from the bush and was possibly from someone out hunting.

Maoate is now looking for help in the case. Anyone with information can call Kawhia police on 07 871 0827.

Information can also be left anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

THAT is extremely serious.

She's a pretty "feral" area over there.

And people wonder why the public calls for tighter firearms laws, with idiots like this around, you can bet it was a license holder.

Maybe the cops should have a walk around that patch of bush and see what else in growing in there.

inbred

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Maybe the cops should have a walk around that patch of bush and see what else in growing in there.

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Wrong time of year..


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And people wonder why the public calls for tighter firearms laws, with idiots like this around, you can bet it was a license holder.

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No need to call early shots right this moment. There's no evidence yet that it was even a licence holder and there are plenty of people across the country who are unlicensed and that have firearms.

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And people wonder why the public calls for tighter firearms laws, with idiots like this around, you can bet it was a license holder.

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I wouldn't bet that at all.

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you can bet it was a license holder.

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Really....I would hope not !

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Not having ago at people who play by the rules, more a comment on how we let ourselves down, it could have been some feral without a license, I suppose my first post was tinted by the fact, that a fellow hunter was shot at as he got out of his ute by a 22.250 ( they found the case on the track from where the shooter was parked) apparently he thought they were cattle rustling ?

Oi, some of us ferals that grew up in that area aren't that feral and are only a little bit inbred.

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Oi, some of us ferals that grew up in that area aren't that feral and are only a little bit inbred.

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haha, sorry man. was not directed at locals etc, I meant they must be inbred to do that shit! Im sure there are plenty of sister mothers all over the show.

Ps, leave your aunty alone!

Yet again everybody's favourite poster is starting a thread about people behaving badly with firearms

Got an agenda Mr Bullshit?

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Yet again everybody's favourite poster is starting a thread about people behaving badly with firearms

Got an agenda Mr Bullshit?

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I have to admit I saw the news headline earlier and wondered how long it would take until he copy+pasted it here.

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Yet again everybody's favourite poster is starting a thread about people behaving badly with firearms

Got an agenda Mr Bullshit?

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Yet again everybody's favourite poster is starting a thread about people behaving badly with firearms

Got an agenda Mr Bullshit?

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If you have a problem with what I post, perhaps you could take it up with the authors or their editors.






Or follow the directions in my signature line.

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If you have a problem with what I post, perhaps you could take it up with the authors or their editors.






Or follow the directions in my signature line.

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Dude you're already blocked by me

What I'm asking is - do you ever look yourself in the mirror and think "I'm not helping the world, I'm dragging it down"?
Or are you on the spectrum?


Are you, in sum total, a minus?

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Dude you're already blocked by me

What I'm asking is - do you ever look yourself in the mirror and think "I'm not helping the world, I'm dragging it down"?
Or are you on the spectrum?


Are you, in sum total, a minus?

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When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate.

- ADDISON WHITHECOMB

Yeah, didn't think you'd have any level of insight enough to see how you're perceived by others

"An asshole is an asshole because they don't realise what an asshole they are" - Me

Sistolic can be a "bit" rough, but knocking him for bringing to our atention the negative news that is out there is hardly something to complain about in my veiw, as it gives us a chance to react to it if we hadent already seen it if aproprate. And as a big picture thing his cut and paste of the text saves us giving the bastards another click, marginly reducing the atractivness of such articals to editours

How do you positively confirm it was shooting? I’m struggling to work out how someone could be so certain when your laying on a surfboard (limited field of view) with the ocean in your ears.

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How do you positively confirm it was shooting? I’m struggling to work out how someone could be so certain when your laying on a surfboard (limited field of view) with the ocean in your ears.

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I was thinking the same thing. While surfing how would you know it was s shot? There is no bullet hole in the water, there may be a splash but they are probably there anyway, and would you hear a distant Bang clearly enough over the waves to identify what it was or where it came from. On a glassy lake or smooth water yes, but in surf?

No evidence provided at all and a gun involved (maybe) with not even a sighting of any firearm, and no legitimate reason to believe them and no one to get a response from to make it balanced....sounds like a perfect STUFF'd news story.

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How do you positively confirm it was shooting? I’m struggling to work out how someone could be so certain when your laying on a surfboard (limited field of view) with the ocean in your ears.

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That's a very valid point @kiwijames - What's to say it wasn't a sling shot or something like that?

It's very distinctive when someone is shooting in your direction, very sharp crack.

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It's very distinctive when someone is shooting in your direction, very sharp crack.

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What he said, it's an experience that you are unlikely to mistake or forget :-)

One of my hunting mates family is from taharoa,i have been there with him hunting once ,it’s definitely called the Wild West for a reason,apparently boats get warning shots fired on them on a regular occurrence especially if they have divers on board,area is only accessible by boat unless you know the right people..

According to what I read in the Waitomo News today....I don’t think it’s a sling shot...


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Here and again we have an appalling situation if it is true. Without a collective voice we are limited to comments on a forum and no way of publicly saying " We responsible firearms owners are shocked at this criminal act".

I went fishing off the Southern end Rocks many times as a kid
Before the Iron Sands project and a road into there - you could get in by Landrover but we used horses, back with split sacks full of Snapper - most 12LB +
My sister taught at the Taharoa School - not an easy lot to teach I might add, take my hat off to her as it would have been a challenge

Great how the article said who and it also could have been a hunter! Man we must be low life's :( to be put in the same basket as this.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12110778

They obviously "Didnt" have a Licence, because Surfer-Shooting-Season, doesnt open for a few more months..

Pakeha surfers? Just wondering.