Taxi Driver.

Posted on December 7th, 2008 in current events by lizzie3

Early on Saturday morning a kind, Happy-go-lucky Afganistan taxi driver who had been in New Zealand for seven years was tragically stabbed near the intersection of Worcester and Barbadoes street.

The mans name was Abdulrahman Ikhtiari and in my opinion did not deserve to be killed. However the police might have a clue who killed the man. Detective Senior Sergant Mike Johnson said that they were after two men in their mid twenties had been seen fleeing from the scene.

The Police believe the man died of a stab wound. One big one and a few minor ones. The really sad thing is that he left a wife and five young children who are all too shocked to speak to the public.

I think whoever did this are very thoughtless people to have done this to some friends and family. However my advice to them is don’t give up and somehow you will get through all this and gradually go back to life. Finally I think that everyone should be careful about who you hang around with and what you do. You only have one life and it is too short to waste!

Romania’s Explosions.

Posted on November 16th, 2008 in current events by lizzie3

Wow! did you hear about the mining explosions in Romania on the news? If you didn’t you ought to read this post to find out what happened…

At least twelve killed and nine injured in the mining explosions in Romania on Saturday. The explosion occurred in a nineteenth century mine in Petrila, which happens to be a small town, Romania’s remote mining area Jiu Valley. Four more people were then killed trying to get to the victims. How sad is that! Rescue helicopters were sent for and rescued the injured and several treated for serious burns while the bodies still remain in the cave.

Apparently it has been the worse accident in Romania’s outdated mining industry since the 1989 fall of communisim which killed fourteen people in 2001.

2008 Elections N.Z.

Posted on October 26th, 2008 in current events by lizzie3

Anyone see the news over here in New Zealand? The elections are getting close; Helen Clark with Labour is coming one point behind John Key’s National. The Green party is next, then NZ First, then Maori party followed lastly by ACT. 

The elections really are starting to narrow. According to the One News website, ”http://www.onenews.co.nz” it says that John Key is going to have to find more people to vote for him if he wants to get ahead to the next government. The poll released says that National hasn’t got majority for the first time in a year. The poll from last week says National was ahead by fourteen points but now it has been lowered down to twelve points. At the moment John Key is wanted by the country to be Prime minister on 38% however Helen Clark is catching right up and is currently on 37%. Do you know what? Three percent of New Zealand want Winston Peters to lead our country!

Personally I would vote Labour because I don’t think John Key deserves to be prime minister of our beautiful New Zealand.

The Mystery of Madilene

Posted on September 7th, 2008 in current events by lizzie3

As most of you probably know, there is a little girl who was kidnapped on her holiday in a small town in Portugal. The little girl was called Madilene. Her mysterious disappearance has been going on over a year now, and for some time her parents were accused of her of mystery. The Portugal police had a cock-and-bull-story that Madilene’s parents had murdered their daughter. They said that the girls parents had drugged her, given her two much of the drug and paniced. They then said they had disposed of her body and claimed that she had been ”kidnapped”. Well I think this is appauling of the police to lie until their tounges turn black. Anyway there is quite an interesting story about Madliene. Here it is…

 

There was a shop keeper putting away items on a shelf when a little girl came up to him and  said she was lost. The shopkeeper then asked her name, because the girl was sucking her thumb it came out unclear but he thought the name was Mattie. He repeated the name to the girl and she corrected him saying it was Maddie. A little curious he asked where is your mother? Maddie replied that is not my mummy, she took me from my holiday and I miss my mummy I want her.

 

Well what do you think of that? I think that if they had followed this story up then Madilene would have been reunited with her family in no time at all. 

Watch Out!!!

Posted on March 11th, 2008 in current events by lizzie3

Did you hear about the four attacks in the Waitarua Reserve in Auckland’s Remuera yesterday? If you didn’t I suppose you want to hear it.

Phil Holmes

The hunt for the man police have dubbed ‘the animal of Remuera’ has seen his first victim come forward and spell out just how dangerous and unprovoked the attacker is.

Phil Holmes described a silent beating that left him covered in blood. Speaking exclusively to 3 News from the USA he said police must step up patrols of the area’s parks until the attacker is caught.

Holmes was setting up a treasure hunt in Michael’s Avenue Reserve for a children’s birthday party. Moments before the kids arrived, a stranger, who had been sitting watching Holmes, walked up and started beating him.

“Just when he was just about on me, just walking right up to me I figured there’s something wrong and then the fist came. I don’t know whether I blacked out at all, because as soon as I could get up I just ran,” says Holmes.

Holmes’ cheek swelled up like a golf ball, his eye was gashed and blood poured from his nose and mouth. His is believed to be the first of four attacks near the Waiatarua Reserve in Auckland’s Remuera. They culminated in a 63-year-old woman being punched off her bike and hurled over a bridge. In all of them, the attacker appears to have chosen his victims at random and carried out the assaults in silence.

Holmes says when the attacker is caught, he is ready to fly out to New Zealand and testify against him