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Caldina GT-T · by **snwtoy** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:03 pm

Kindof car related...

Man steals handbag, crazy police chase ensues, ends in death.

Start of the holiday weekend, motorway is palava.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/image ... _id=104210

Website · by **Emperor** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:05 pm

So what car was being chased? The Skyline?

Heard about it on the radio earlier, pretty crazy

Website · by **Bling** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:05 pm

Well i'm guessing the person that got shot was the theif... so I think this method should be used on all theft.

Steal something, get chased and shot. End.

edit: checked out the stuff news site: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4827794a11.html

"Radio New Zealand reported witnesses as saying the man tried to hijack a truck once he had fled his vehicle, a Silver Nissan Skyline, before shots were fired."

Caldina GT-T · by **snwtoy** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:08 pm

BZG|Bling wrote:Steal something, get chased and shot. End.

I'm sure the media have sensationalized it already, but up to 20 patrol cars chasing a stolen handbag? I know it's been a slow friday afternoon, but really? Surely the risk to the public would have been substantial ...

by **ihavelift** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:13 pm

woh that's so intense ... so what ... they just blocked off the WHOLE nw motorway?

Caldina GT-T · by **snwtoy** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:14 pm

ihavelift wrote:woh that's so intense ... so what ... they just blocked off the WHOLE nw motorway?

Yeah, Transit (when it works) is reporting that the motorways may take up to 6 hours to start moving.

by **Nuty|Mike** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:20 pm

Some reports i heard was that it all started with him shooting at something out west then shooting at cops during the chase hence the big dangerous chase ? maybe ?

by **ihavelift** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:31 pm

snwtoy wrote:
ihavelift wrote:woh that's so intense ... so what ... they just blocked off the WHOLE nw motorway?

Yeah, Transit (when it works) is reporting that the motorways may take up to 6 hours to start moving.

does anybody know if upper harbour drive is trafficzilla? how about norhtern mway heading south?

by **postfach** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:46 pm

BZG|Bling wrote:Well i'm guessing the person that got shot was the theif... so I think this method should be used on all theft.

Steal something, get chased and shot. End.

edit: checked out the stuff news site: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4827794a11.html

"Radio New Zealand reported witnesses as saying the man tried to hijack a truck once he had fled his vehicle, a Silver Nissan Skyline, before shots were fired."

If only, the person who was shot was the driver of the truck he tried to hijack.

by **xsspeed** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:51 pm

I heard the 'hostage' got shot, to start with and then that he had died.

Then I read it ws the thief that got shot and died.

So still unsure

EDIT

Apparently confirmed it was the innocent guy who was killed. Police arent saying who fired the fatal shots. ~Stray police fire?

Website · by **Bling** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:01 pm

F**K thats gay man :cry:

50 year old guy running...wtf

by **phraza** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:13 pm

was mayhem tryin to leave inner city at 5pm!! finally got to the northern motoway and started backing up at northcote off-ramp, i guess everyone was going up and across the new greenhithe motoway

Toyspeed Profile - MrOizo · by **MrOizo** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:22 pm

xsspeed wrote:Police arent saying who fired the fatal shots. ~Stray police fire?

Sounds like police are nervous about who fired fatal shot!

Pretty sad!

by **ihavelift** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:23 pm

BZG|Bling wrote:F**K thats [person of homosexual orientation] man

50 year old guy running...wtf

he was 50? didn't know that ...

Yeah innocent dude killed is rough.

North Western motorway heading to the city is open know FYI

by **Mr Revhead** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:30 pm

i would say the paranoia is more proper procedure to make sure all the facts are know before released

just imagine if the police worked like TS

i can already hear the hippies "oh the police have murdered again" :roll:

by **Adamal** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:38 pm

In the press conference the Police held, the guy was sounding very nervous.
Judging his attitude, I would't be surprised if it was a police bullet that strayed and killed the innocent.

At first when I heard someone was dead, I thought it was the crook. At least, I wished it was. Sad that it was a bystander caught up in it all.

But then again, it could have been the crook who killed the guy, the guy who spoke at the conference may have just been really on edge because of the whole situation. I'm actually hoping that it WASN'T a Police bullet. Otherwise it'll cause a lot of public anger that the Police don't need, and people will call for even tighter gun restrictions etc. I wish the Police had more power to disolve the situation before it got to the point it did.

Caldina GT-T · by **snwtoy** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:44 pm

Adamal wrote:But then again, it could have been the crook who killed the guy, the guy who spoke at the conference may have just been really on edge because of the whole situation. I'm actually hoping that it WASN'T a Police bullet. Otherwise it'll cause a lot of public anger that the Police don't need, and people will call for even tighter gun restrictions etc. I wish the Police had more power to disolve the situation before it got to the point it did.

I've heard that the crook had a shotgun (pretty easy to distinguish a shotgun wound from a pistol/rifle).

But they've also found a .22 on the scene.

Still can't believe they turned this into a killing after a handbag was stolen. NZ police need to learn when to give up.

Website · by **Bling** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:50 pm

About 6 months ago I was in Sydney, just minding my own business waiting for the lights to change so I could cross the road....

All of a sudden a huge f**k off armoured police wagon sirens and air horn going came around the corner, proceeded to drive up the probably 200mm curb I was standing next to along with many others (we basically had to get the hell out of the way fast) drove along the foot path and disappeared into the distance....

Now the reason for my offtopic story is that I think we need such vehicles here to stop such chases from getting out of hand.... the video i saw had the cops blocking off intersections so the guy had a clear road....

The 'tank' I saw in Sydney would have easily ended the chase with one decent smack to the skyline... I'd much rather see that than some innocent person shot tbh.

The whole story will probably never be told, but it does make me wonder if they tried anything like road spikes etc.

by **RunningRich** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:08 pm

snwtoy wrote:Still can't believe they turned this into a killing after a handbag was stolen. NZ police need to learn when to give up.

Or make the decision to shoot to kill to protect public safety. There would be fewer runners if there was a chance they would blow your brains out.

by **Mr Revhead** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:20 pm

snwtoy wrote:Still can't believe they turned this into a killing after a handbag was stolen. NZ police need to learn when to give up.

oh hello hippie :roll:

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