\u201cI just think this is something that doesn\u2019t belong on the [Taranaki] coast or anywhere, to be fair, especially when lives are endangered.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police attended a report of antisocial road users gathering at Kina Rd about 1am on Monday.<\/p>\n
Officers spoke to some of the people but found them confrontational, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the hostile nature of the group, it was determined that the safest course of action was to monitor the meet from nearby and gather information.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fleming was unsure if it was a sole officer involved but said police did a great job with the resources they had.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d always like to have more police officers, yes, but you know they need to have a life as well, so… yeah we\u2019d always like to see more officers in small rural settlements.\u201d<\/p>\n
The councillor didn\u2019t think gatherings of antisocial car users were a common occurrence in South Taranaki and she was unsure where the young people had come from.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not the sort of area that\u2019s conducive for a big crowd of cars together, I don\u2019t think, and [they are] certainly not welcomed by the locals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how their minds work. They must have a bit of money to have these cars and fill them with fuel to be able to basically just burn up money. I would suggest that money would be better spent in other places.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said they would use the information they gathered for follow-up inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI just think this is something that doesn\u2019t belong on the [Taranaki] coast or anywhere, to be fair,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1975,44183,3944,38290,48359,209,42,46613,5133,9862,43,1118,33229,1240,16715,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-297605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-behaviour","10":"tag-car","11":"tag-councillor","12":"tag-disgusted","13":"tag-group","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-hostile","16":"tag-martin","17":"tag-meet","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-of","20":"tag-robin","21":"tag-south","22":"tag-taranaki","23":"tag-top-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topnews","26":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297605","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=297605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}