{"id":109650,"date":"2025-10-30T23:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:20:04","slug":"public-pooping-pensioner-caught-in-act-after-threats-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109650\/","title":{"rendered":"Public-pooping pensioner caught in act after threats to kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pensioner who threatened and pushed a woman working in central Dunedin was soon tracked down by police while \u2018\u2018excreting\u2019\u2019 in a bush.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old man approached the bar worker while she was packing away outdoor furniture in the Octagon last night, Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said.<\/p>\n<p>When she asked him to leave the man threatened to kill the woman and\u00a0pushed her before leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Police found the man a short distance away \u2018\u2018excreting\u2019\u2019 in a bush in the Octagon, Snr Sgt Bond said.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with threats to kill, male assaults female and excreting in a public place.<\/p>\n<p>The man is set to appear in Dunedin District Court next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Evie Sinclair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pensioner who threatened and pushed a woman working in central Dunedin was soon tracked down by police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-109650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}