{"id":155449,"date":"2025-11-26T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155449\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:49:08","slug":"youth-coach-hit-in-head-by-booze-can-flung-from-dunedin-homeless-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155449\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth coach hit in head by booze can flung from Dunedin homeless camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tent_city_gone_0.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"The 23-year-old coach was training with the children\u2019s team at 5.30pm in the Kensington Oval....\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old coach was training with the children\u2019s team at 5.30pm in the Kensington Oval. Photo: ODT Files<\/p>\n<p>A youth touch-rugby coach was smacked in the head by a flying can allegedly thrown by a \u2018\u2018heavily intoxicated\u2019\u2019 man drinking at a Dunedin homeless encampment.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old coach was training with the children\u2019s team at 5.30pm in the Kensington Oval yesterday when the 45-year-old man threw a can of Jim Beam at his head, Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was drinking at \u2018\u2018Tent City\u2019\u2019 which is also located at the sports grounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018Police located the heavily intoxicated 45-year-old male in a nearby street and arrested the male for this unprovoked assault.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with assault and was bailed to appear in Dunedin District Court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:laine.priestley@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old coach was training with the children\u2019s team at 5.30pm in the Kensington Oval. Photo: ODT Files&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-155449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155449","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=155449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}