“A very common crime: almost a “bloodsport” amongst rich kids here in NZ. “
Reminds me of the rumors of the children of wealthy Europeans traveling to Beirut to ‘target practice’ during the height of the civil war there in the 1980’s.
You have to wonder where a ten year old got the idea that beating a homeless person with a concrete block was a good idea in the first place.
> You have to wonder where a ten year old got the idea that beating a homeless person with a concrete block was a good idea in the first place.
It’s a horrible thought. Another blood sport here — this time with poor kids — is to drop rocks or concrete blocks off pedestrian overpasses to our motorway and see if they can cause accidents at hi speed.
I’m aware of at least one fatality resulting from this: horrific accident at 100 km/h. It’s a problem that has happened enough to cause Transit NZ to consider enclosing all pedestrian overpasses so that missiles can’t be thrown off them onto hi-speed traffic.