This happened yesterday a few hundred meters from my home. I always miss the fun stuff.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4664448a23882.html
"Riot cops quell fighting in inner-city mall
GREER McDONALD and NZPA - The Dominion Post | Friday, 22 August 2008
Riot police had to control fights among a crowd of almost 200 people as they tried to arrest a suspected thief wielding nunchaku in Wellington’s Manners Mall.
Police called in a specialist support team wielding long batons and shields to the mall about 4pm yesterday after a man suspected of shoplifting produced nunchaku - a martial arts weapon - and began attacking police and staff in a clothes shop.
Witnesses said the man, in his mid-20s, was locked inside Loaded after staff suspected he tried to take a jacket.
Holly Payne, from Newtown, said when two police officers arrived, the man reached into his bag, pulled out the nunchaku and began swinging at police.
“He looked like he knew what he was doing with them.”
Several staff locked themselves in a back room and the man was left in the shop while police waited for back-up.
Alysha Collier, 18, said Manners Mall was “packed from one end to the other” with spectators, and police had blocked access at both ends.
While police attempted to keep people back, youth gangs took the opportunity to start fights, she said.
“They just beat up anyone who looks at them the wrong way.”
Kazz Coughlan-Briggs, 16, said when riot police arrived, the crowd yelled for them to Taser the man, who was still in the shop.
“The police were too scared to go in there, they kept going up to the door and then he’d start swinging again,” she said.
Sergeant Mark Oliver said while police were speaking to the man, another group not connected with him “gathered in the mall and small pockets of fighting broke out”.
A police negotiator entered the store and spoke to the man, who was then arrested and taken to Wellington police station.
Witnesses said the drama was “just another day in Manners Mall”, where daily acts of violence were expected.
“We see drunken brawls, people on P, fist fights, bottle fights - it’s not okay, but it’s just normal,” one teenager said."
Not how the cops obviously felt that the Ninjer (okay, just because he has nunchucks doesnt necessarily make him a ninjer) with his rice flails was too formidable for their batons, pepper spray, tasers and superior numbers.
They had to wait for a fucking riot sqaud to turn up?
Note how the cops left the shop with the offender inside, whilst staff locked themselves in a backroom. Read: The cops left the offender between the civillians and themselves.
Mind you. He was a ninjer, so he may have been th3 d3adly.
(Why do we spell it with '3’s by the way?)
(no sheep)