Say what you will about New Zealand...

[Liar]

...but Kiwi criminals totally know how to do it with style. Or something.



Police nab smurfs for trampoline theft
30 July 2006

By MARCUS BROGDEN

Two blue smurfs were left with red faces on Saturday night after they were arrested by police for stealing a trampoline.

Senior Sergeant Brian Benn told NZPA two drunk 19 year olds, "dressed as smurfs", were seen carrying the trampoline along Richardson Street, Dunedin about 1am.

Smurfs are fictional small creatures who featured in the 1980s television series The Smurfs.

"When they saw the police had noticed them they dropped the trampoline and took off."

Mr Benn said police had to track them over several back yards.

"Two were located, but a third man got away," he said.

The men will appear in Dunedin District Court tomorrow.

The trampoline had been taken from a garden in southern Dunedin.

 

[R. Richard]

I think a better headline would have been:

"Things Are Jumping In Dunedin!"

 

[gauchecritic]

I realise it may not be the case now but, as inspired by your thread Liar: I saw a tv programme several years ago whose main gist was that the best headlines they could come up with for crime in NZ was car theft.

That whole part of the programme's aim seemed to be: Car crime? Is that the best you can do? and making fun of it.

I was honestly shocked that the programme makers (and thus the British population) thought that car crime being the worst thing to happen in NZ was laughable.

The worst thing that could happen to you in the whole country was that someone could steal your car! I'd take that over murder and drug gangs any time.

 

[wazhazhe]

...but Kiwi criminals totally know how to do it with style. Or something.

Police nab smurfs for trampoline theft
30 July 2006

Two blue smurfs were left with red faces on Saturday night after they were arrested by police for stealing a trampoline.

Yeah, like you said; that's style ... or something. My money's on something.

 

[Guest]

My new standard against which all things are judged

"Weirder than Smurfs on a Trampoline"

 

[kiwiwolf]

Papa Smurf is actually one of new Zealands top crime figures. He was mastermind behind the vicious spate of garden gnome kidnappings in the late 90's and is currently being sought by the cops for a spate of sheep vandalism crimes.

He is considered unarmed and blue but should not be approached. He has fleas in his beard.

 

[australwind]

I was somewhat amused by the tone of the report of the same incident in our morning paper ......


"Two drunken 19 year old men, dressed as the blue cartoon characters, tried to flee after realising that the police had somehow spotted them as they carried the trampoline along a main street."


How observant ... how should that be "how obvious"?????

 

[SummerMorning]

I have trouble thinking of 19 year olds as "men" ...

 

[wazhazhe]

So you're saying dressing as smurfs and walking down the street carrying a stolen trampoline are not signs of maturity?