Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Laws has some pretty twisted views about Africa.
I understand he had some things to say while at Otago University around the time of the Springbok Tour that didn't look good at the time, let alone quarter of a century later.
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If you're too fat, go for a run before work, if you can't shoot straight, go to a range one day a month.
Part of the contract of all police officers is that they get one hour a week for maintaining their fitness. It's not a lot, but it's something. There's no such time set aside for shooting for most cops. A lot of cops would go a decade without firing a gun in anger. I guess it's just not a priority, which is a nice thing to be able to say.
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AS, amongst considerations were the usability by, shall we say, petite officers.
There was a similar consideration in the move from the old handgun - I forget what it was, S & W? - to the Glock. They surveyed all the cops, and a lot found it difficult to draw, heavy kick, and heavy to hold, particularly female cops.
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What sort of dogs are they Kyle?
They're from the same litter. Mother was a blue heeler collie cross. Two different fathers we suspect. Brown one the father is probably a kelpie, the black one is definitely a bearded collie from over the road.
The black collie taught the other one to jump.
Before or after you add the barbed wire and broken glass to the top of it?
Police dogs are trained to scale two-metre-high walls, but it's not difficult to make the top insurmountable to dogs and tricky for humans.I'm not sure my neighbours would be happy with barbed wire and broken glass between our properties, but I'll check!
"Two deaths have occurred in NZ following use of pepper spray by police. Mentally ill Ian Horsfield, aged 66, died in 1999. Intellectually disabled Russell Hamilton, aged 32, died in July 2001."
According to the NZ Herald report Ian Horsfield died of a heart attack at the scene. He wasn't killed directly by pepper spray, and there's no guarantee that he wouldn't have found being brought to the ground and mauled by a dog just as stressful and had a heart attack anyway.
Russell Hamilton also died of a heart attack, so the same thing applies there.
But you're assuming that in those two instances, dogs would have been instead of pepper spray, which is based on your assumption that dogs are an alternative to pepper spray, which it very rarely is. Most situations that use a dog, pepper spray would be useless as the subject is hundreds of metres away. Most situations where pepper spray has been used a dog would be inappropriate, you can't just bring a dog to subdue a person suffering from mental illness or intellectual disability. That's insane. If the police started doing that every time they had a call that a mentally ill person was being violent and threatening people, they'd rightly be ripped to shreds by the public.
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What I can say is that when you come to play rugby in New Zealand you are not just playing the All Blacks, you are taking on the whole nation. Everyone is against you.
Wow, what a tosser making excuses for his frankly average rugby team.
Assuming that a sexual assault did take place, that quote is going to look really bad with the benefit of hindsight. "Everyone is against you [except these nice women that we met and then...]".
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I took Graham Henries reported comments not as support for the English behaviour, or even solidarity for accused "brothers"... but merely not being wanted to be seen as taking shots at them..... Presumably because he wanted to beat them by playing better, rather than because they were under a cloud?
I took the quotes that Paul linked to, to be about the English team as a whole, rather than the four players:
"You don't want any sporting team to be going through those situations.
"You live in that sort of life yourselves – in the international sporting environment. I think you've got a lot of sympathy for people who go through that situation.
"Certainly you just like to be supportive."
In the context of the first para, it's clumsy and silly. He just should have shut his mouth about it. If you take out that first para though it looks like he could be talking about the individuals, which would be bad.
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And if she has stated that to the Police, shouldn’t that be enough to press a charge?
A statement to the police is not a requirement to arrest and charge someone, though obviously it normally happens and helps the police. Domestic violence in particular for couple of decades now it's been police policy to arrest even if the victim won't make a statement
But it's also not necessarily enough to press charges. Particularly in a case like this where she might have said something along the lines of "I went back to the hotel with one guy but then I was raped by these others guys here". That's her word against theirs, obviously consenting for something but not consenting to something else. If she's the only witness for the prosecution and the accused all deny it, I'd imagine the police wouldn't be able to build a case.
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Even fences are a problem, despite their training.
I could fix that. My dogs have found ways through and over my back fence to harass the goat that lives there, no matter what I do.
If police dog training was moved to my house and my dogs were put in charge, they'd be leaping 6 foot walls after offenders before you could go woof.
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Actually, they can.
Sorry, I didn't mean that legally they can't enter buildings. Just that they're of limited use in a house or business or pub etc. And if doors are closed, which they probably are in relation to an armed offender, the dog can't get in to get them.
I presume sometimes they do enter with their handler, particularly larger buildings - mall, warehouse etc etc.
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It's part of the whole thing whereby women are seen as the gatekeepers of everyone's sexuality
That's a good analysis Lucy.
Which basically puts women in the category of "there for sex". And that kind of atmosphere doesn't lend itself well to thinking about women, especially women you're having a one-night-stand with, as people who need to be respected.
I heard stuff in a sports changing room just recently, from people who are otherwise 'reasonable sorts', talking about women. And not random women that they'd met in bars, but women who play the sport at the top level in New Zealand.
It was one of those situations where you later wish you'd said something at the time, even though you would have been in the minority, but I think I was busy trying to pick my jaw up from my lap.