Voices speaking over the footage in the background can be heard saying \u201cYeah, aunty\u201d and \u201cThey were trying to steal my bag\u201d.<\/p>\n
She then picks up a bag and throws it back over the gate, into the person while they are climbing back over.<\/p>\n
The video ends with everyone walking out of frame.<\/p>\n
Commenters on the post were approving, with more than one describing the video, which had been viewed nearly 300,000 times by this afternoon, as \u201csatisfying\u201d. Another said it was \u201clike watching a movie\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Gisborne Herald, the driver, Melissa Mackey-Huriwai, said she was driving home from picking up her daughter from the airport when she saw the people outside the gym.<\/p>\n
Mackey-Huriwai, a trainer for Rangataua o Aotearoa, didn\u2019t recognise them, so she decided to turn around to get a better look at what they were doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time we got there, someone was already on the other side of the fence.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as I saw they had alcohol in their hand as well, I knew they were up to no good.\u201d<\/p>\n
She thought they might run away when she stepped in, but they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were in another world. They were like, \u2018Oh, we didn\u2019t know, I thought it was my bag.\u2019 Just all lies, a bit lost.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the bag belonged to a club member.<\/p>\n
She was disappointed no one else nearby had thought to intervene before her, given the incident was in daylight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were two guys across the road working, and I said to them, \u2018Did you not think of saying anything?\u2019 and they just looked at me, dumbfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n
She had not reported the incident to the police.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really need to. I know who they are now, I\u2019ve got their names.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rangataua o Aotearoa club building in Gisborne, where trainer Melissa Mackey-Huriwai intervened in a suspected burglary on Tuesday. Photo \/ Gisborne Herald<\/p>\n
The club has been burgled more than once before.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was last year, because the clothes get hung outside, so people jump over and take what they think they want.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got them on video, too, but we didn\u2019t catch those ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had another one that actually got into the gym. We caught them, they stole a lot of equipment from inside the gym, but they dumped the video camera in the soccer field, and I just put it in rice and recovered it. So I was able to get the footage, identify who they were, and I pretty much went over and collected all our stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said Tuesday\u2019s incident did not appear to have been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voices speaking over the footage in the background can be heard saying \u201cYeah, aunty\u201d and \u201cThey were trying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16425,5765,9767,167207,3944,12506,2219,78,71297,4505,111,43,139,69,14649,8841,61,7188,3382,416,5143,6923,1354],"class_list":["post-336932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-appears","tag-attempted","tag-burglary","tag-captures","tag-car","tag-gisborne","tag-gone","tag-in","tag-intervene","tag-moment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stopped","tag-suspected","tag-to","tag-uses","tag-using","tag-video","tag-viral","tag-what","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336932","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=336932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}