Three cops shot - 1 dead (Napier, 7 May)

[RantyDave]

Ya fucken cretin, - you're trying to tell us your average or garden variety of stoner is a laid-back peacefull type that doesn't wield semi-auto rifles eh?

Yeah. Otherwise this would be a daily occurrence, wouldn't it?

Actually, what I was trying to say (but it got lost in the cacophony of pitchforks) was that it's a shame/crime-against-humanity that the police are given such lame-arse laws to enforce.

Just wait until I'm sober....

Exactly, see? If we banned alcohol, you and your mates would have to go around shutting down back yard breweries. It would be pathetic and pointless.

Dave

[tri boy]

Reports that a police dog is also dead. That makes two dead sworn officers if the report is true.

[Maha]

I take it that this guy does sleep?
And I go back to the 'cut power' thing too...
No power= cold/no media coverage to boost his ever growing ego/add in the lack of sleep etc.
I get the feeling the cops are trying to keep him awake (which is a good thing) buy shooting in his direction during the early hours?

[Finn]

I don't have G.Earth. 41 is not particularly close to the top photo here http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2393...-may-last-days and is on the same side of the road, further up the hill on the right.
This one?

Yip, that's the house, so I've been told. If it was the house directly opposite the one on the link, those 2 guys would be shot.

[ynot slow]

You go there and tell them, mate!



WOT! You mean it's not like on TV...?

Just been talking to a customer there who knows the guys and the family. He was a customer of theirs. He planned this and wanted to go our in blaze of glory. He knew what he was doing. She said he was always acting like he had a big chip on his shoulder...

Must be true,my comment meant I was infracted for taking it off topic,pc gone wrong.

[MSTRS:Me]

Yip, that's the house, so I've been told. If it was the house directly opposite the one on the link, those 2 guys would be shot.

Yea I know...just using photo/media clues. It's an odd area, in that Chaucer Rd South gently rises in a straight line from the pub that is on the corner, until it reaches that house. Then the roadway veers to the left but becomes Spencer Rd. Chaucer is the turn off to the right and it is REAL steep (known locally as Breakneck). The old white house is on the left, the other one is further up after the intersection and on the right.

[ynot slow]

He has the option of surrendering.Be good if he can be taken alive to give his account of WHY,but alas I feel he doesn't want to be taken alive.Also the cost to the police in terms of manhours,and another shooting in BOP according to news.

[Nasty]

Must be true,my comment meant I was infracted for taking it off topic,pc gone wrong.

Nah the infraction just from the git who took the thing off topic .. have removed from you ... No PC gone wrong ... the other lovely person who had the infraction will receive it now .. thanks for letting me know.

[DougieNZ]

Be good if he can be taken alive to give his account of WHY

Do we really care? Does the family of the murdered police officer?

[Tank]

Do we really care? Does the family of the murdered police officer?

I dont think there are any of us here who could speak for the family of the Police Officer.

[ManDownUnder]

Do we really care? Does the family of the murdered police officer?

"Do we care?" - I don't know, but we should. There's no prevention without understanding
"Does the family of Police Officer care?" - in time they will I'm sure but they have enough on their plate right now
"Do I (MDU) care?" - hell yes. Imagine this happening again simply because we missed an opportunity to learn from the last time.

[ynot slow]

Do we really care? Does the family of the murdered police officer?

I don't care about him,sorry for the people injured doing their job or in wrong place but maybe,just maybe the mental health body can get info from him,what set him off.Shit I sound pc,watched a piece on breakfast of some woman prattling on about his mindset etc,sure research indicates he MIGHT do this or that,but each case is different.

As he isn't presenting a danger (at the mo)it must be hard for the head cops in operations to say just blast him out,but should he start shooting aimlessly,then let him have it,which he must want,otherwise why not walk out unarmed.

[Tank]

Statement from the police mentioned this:

- Asked why gas had not been used to try to flush the gunman from the house, Mr Hoyle replied: "It would be wrong to assume it hasn't been used."

[MSTRS:Me]

Reports that a police dog is also dead. That makes two dead sworn officers if the report is true.

Only that the dog handler's bitch Fi is still in the back of the wagon. Nothing beyond that. But one could assume that the crazy prick has peppered the vehicle too...

[Maki]

I don't care about him,sorry for the people injured doing their job or in wrong place but maybe,just maybe the mental health body can get info from him,what set him off.Shit I sound pc,watched a piece on breakfast of some woman prattling on about his mindset etc,sure research indicates he MIGHT do this or that,but each case is different.

As he isn't presenting a danger (at the mo)it must be hard for the head cops in operations to say just blast him out,but should he start shooting aimlessly,then let him have it,which he must want,otherwise why not walk out unarmed.

Everything was fine and peaceful, police arrive on the scene and try to instigate a search and all hell breaks loose.

It does not take a rocket scientist or "the mental health body" to figure out "what set him off".