{"id":277161,"date":"2026-02-10T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277161\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:28:18","slug":"students-head-cut-by-flying-bottle-as-parties-rev-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277161\/","title":{"rendered":"Student&#8217;s head cut by flying bottle as parties rev up again"},"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\/2026\/02\/screenshot_2022-03-04_at_10.28.23_am.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Flo-Week kicked off with a back-to-school themed party in an area shared by many flats nicknamed...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flo-Week kicked off with a back-to-school themed party in an area shared by many flats nicknamed the Courtyard in Castle St. Photo: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>A Dunedin student had to be taken to hospital with a &#8220;decent cut&#8221; after a bottle was thrown at his head on the first night of Flo-Week parties.<\/p>\n<p>University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic students are back in town and Flo-Week kicked off with a back-to-school themed party in an area shared by many flats nicknamed the Courtyard in Castle St.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said\u00a0one student sustained &#8220;a decent cut&#8221; when a bottle was thrown at his head.<\/p>\n<p>The students were mostly well behaved and there were \u2018\u2018no major issues\u2019\u2019 but there were some problems associated with glass bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Snr Sgt Dinnissen suggested students use cans and said police had done a push for can sales by alcohol retailers by asking them to shift their bottle stocks to the back of their stores.<\/p>\n<p>Police also found &#8220;idiots&#8221; drinking on roofs in Cumberland St and Leith St North and asked them to come down.<\/p>\n<p>Snr Sgt Dinnissen said there had been significant injuries from people drinking on roofs and it was a \u2018\u2018no-no\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flo-Week kicked off with a back-to-school themed party in an area shared by many flats nicknamed the Courtyard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-277161","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\/277161","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=277161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}