http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/3509267/CIA-party-for-suicide-spy

Maybe winning the cup could make up for losing the war.…

The reason we don't get many bombs in NZ is twofold:

Threefold: Through some combination of culture, climate and blind luck, even our crazy people are fairly benign, by global standards. Whale Oil may make you wish you were dead, but the odds of him actually killing anyone are pretty…

Bombs in Christchurch was part of the turf war for bars & brothels during the 1980s.

and don't forget the suspicious fire that destroyed Moby Dicks formerly the fabulous Majestic Theatre
on the corner of Lichfield & Manchester sts

As for the tour bomb, I put it into the same file as Polish aggression causing the Nazi self defence programme.

It wasn't early escavation work for the replacement stadium either.

Well we did have Neil Roberts in Wanganui
and the Wellington Trades Hall bomber
and Those Damn French Rainbow Warrior bombers
but that was the '80s...

Someone also left an explosive device in a dunny at Christchurch Airport during the '81 tour, if I recall correctly. Crazy days ...

and Those Damn French Rainbow Warrior bombers
but that was the '80s...
things are different now

For starters, the French are very unlikely to need to resort to terrorism to spoil the rugby world cup for us.

(Also, if we're indicting people for misuse of the word "hysteria", [[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10632200|I have a…

Like Copeland and Timothy McVeigh, it's statistically likely they'll come from the Whale Oil end of the spectrum.

You can also add Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder to the list.

Closer to home, there was the Graeme White affair, although thankfully he was caught napping.

Even the NF [[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10358194/|didn't want these…

we'll get some nutter like David Copeland

David Copeland?

(Sorry, perhaps that joke is only relevant to anyone in Wellington who's ever worked in web because they've probably worked there)

No doubt one…

Jonathan is going to grow up into Bill Ralston.

And then be mistaken for Russell Brown.
;-)

Unfortunately, this story is just stupid. But he does appear to have had a grown-up on the job with him and the approval of an acting editor.

Oh, Jeebus... so did the Operation Leaf FUBAR and I'm still trying to figure out how nobody at the SST lost their job…

Russell, this is a classic case of the SST not understanding context; at the moment Eden Park is not considered a potential target (of any kind, I presume) so has minimal security. When the Cup is underway, well, let's see them try again.

On the contrary, I'm sure they understood…

To be fair, rodgerd, Prebble may have been discussing that alternate reality where we had a bunch of [ageing, poorly specced, ex-Taiwanese] trophy-F16s on hand to protect us from unorthodox flour delivery mechanisms.

Or that people in the stadium were sufficiently imaginative to worry, because they didn't know which part…

look forward with interest to Marshall's long awaited expose on the Dihydrogenmonoxide trade.

We've been there, done that – have the OIA request :-P

http://img2.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0709/DeanDHMO.pdf

If there is a threat to the RWC, where does it come from? Inside NZ? Outside?

I'd be worried about those re-energised Soccer
(sorry, Football) fans... now they've had a taste of the
big time there'll be no stopping them!
I can see them marching round…

Much as I don't have a great deal of respect for Marshall's work I do have some admiration for his tenacity. At the ripe old age of 18 he was stirring the pile and getting himself noticed.

I agree, actually. I like him and I appreciate the fact that he's…

Unkind, unkind!

Yes, sorry. As one who supports the Blues I should not be taking stones into that particular glasshouse.

IIRC, he was using 9/11 as a cheap point scoring exercise about Labour scrapping our fighter jets. Quite what he thought they could have done about the plane, other than shooting it down over a city, was not clear.

Well, given that the top speed of a Skyhawk was only…

I hope the NZRU and NZ Cricket see the funny side when they deny the SST media accreditation until 2012. That'll be fun to watch the sports dept see Johnathan Marshall for a "chat".

Another media beat up

He was at a wedding

Did you know you were at the house that was filmed at, Friday ? :)

You don't need explosives if you want to watch the Chiefs being destroyed. It happens most weeks anyway.

Unkind, unkind! Perhaps they could have set Sione on them.

He may grow up one day and show some of his intelligence but I fear he is just another Wishart in the making.

I believe he used to write for Investigate Magazine when he was young(er).

The whole journo as celebrity is pathetic. Is it really so hard to just report the news instead of manufacturing it and putting yourselves in the midst of it ?

Apparently, yes.
Much as I don't have a great deal of respect for Marshall's work I do have some admiration…

One of the biggest post-9/11 gems was when Richard Prebble compared flying passenger jets into skyscrapers with this...

IIRC, he was using 9/11 as a cheap point scoring exercise about Labour scrapping our fighter jets. Quite what he thought they could have done about the plane, other than shooting it…

"Okay then Mr Bin…

The thing Eden Park is in the biggest danger of being targeted for is jokes. It's wide open. We had our chance to fix that one, but we blew it.

One of the biggest post-9/11 gems was when Richard Prebble compared flying passenger jets into skyscrapers with this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZMIySG75c

He got "within one metre" of the Chiefs' dressing room

You don't need explosives if you want to watch the Chiefs being destroyed. It happens most weeks anyway.

Sorry, getting coat...

Also, I wonder what all this means if Pulp Sport ever makes a comeback and tries to do the Tui Sneak again...

The goat did it.

Also, I wonder what all this means if Pulp Sport ever makes a comeback and tries to do the Tui Sneak again...

Curiously enough, what they've done plays into…

Having received a free copy of your rag at the Zoo (thanks Zoo, although I didn't order any Zoo doo), can we suggest you release an alternate version that contains the Puzzles and the Sports News.

That is all.
Cheers.

One also imagines the StundayTsar Times
would be the first to complain were someone
to show up their internal…

In the meantime, perhaps the Sunday Star Times could see about reporting some real news stories.

"But real news doesn't sell papers..."

Yes, they really accused someone else of a "beat-up". Clearly, they're not afraid of embracing irony at the Star Times these days.

That isn't an embrace, its indecent assault.

The NZPA story quotes the Star Times as accusing Judith Collins of having "whipped up hysteria".

Really. You couldn't write this stuff.