A man in his 20s was left unconscious after a violent episode with tradies on Beach Haven Rd on Friday. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
Police confirmed they have made inquiries into the altercation.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice have now spoken with both parties involved about what has taken place.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will now be reviewing all available information to determine any appropriate steps in this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John was notified of the incident at Beach Haven Rd and Hellyers St at 2.44pm. <\/p>\n
One person was taken to North Shore Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n
The alleged victims and multiple witnesses said the workers involved drove trucks branded with TZL, a North Shore-based scaffolding company.<\/p>\n
TZL owner Thomas Williams told the Herald those involved were not employees of TZL Scaffolding, and were independent contractors hired by him to do a job on the day of the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m shocked at the false accusations. There are definitely two sides to this story.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t comment on anything as I have sent the workers involved to the police and I will let them handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams also said he had received threats and harassment from the family involved and other \u2018random\u2019 people. <\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s mother told the Herald a police officer at the scene rang her last night and said there was a \u201chigh chance\u201d the workers wouldn\u2019t get charged as \u201cthey\u2019ve given multiple statements claiming it was a mutual fight\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this is the case, I am beyond disgusted in our law, or lack of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The young trio had walked down the road when they claimed a group of three men in a scaffolding truck whistled and yelled \u201csomething sleazy\u201d at the woman\u2019s 18-year-old niece.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich made my son and nephew yell at the truck to \u2018get f****d\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe men were drinking Corona and started throwing their beer bottles at the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the workers then turned around and left before returning five minutes later with another truckload of six men.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey stole my son\u2019s gold chain that fell off his neck and [punched and] split under his eye.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knocked my nephew unconscious, and he has a small fracture in his nose and jaw and is only just starting to get his memory back.\u201d<\/p>\n
A member of the public who stopped to help the injured said they rang an ambulance because one of the boys was \u201cout cold\u201d.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s aunt said the alleged offenders were not known to the family and it was \u201d100% a random attack\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s was left unconscious after a violent episode with tradies on Beach Haven Rd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1903,74,7818,95,1344,51,212846,68692,2741,1568,70218,15124,2241,69725,17095,101,160138,40711,111,43,139,529,69,90,18484,5424,58933,19554,2846,60048,13082,1237,67355,4478,4741],"class_list":["post-414001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-abuse","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-and","tag-attacked","tag-auckland","tag-bottled","tag-bottles","tag-claim","tag-construction","tag-contractors","tag-fight","tag-hospital","tag-hurled","tag-jumped","tag-left","tag-males","tag-mutual","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-shore","tag-street","tag-suburban","tag-taken","tag-them","tag-threw","tag-trio","tag-two","tag-unconscious","tag-workers","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414001","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=414001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}