{"id":477901,"date":"2026-06-15T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477901\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:20:10","slug":"intoxicated-pair-arrested-after-climbing-crane-at-dunedin-hospital-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477901\/","title":{"rendered":"Intoxicated pair arrested after climbing crane at Dunedin hospital site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Two men were arrested after they allegedly climbed a large crane at the site of Dunedin&#8217;s new hospital while intoxicated over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Senior Sergeant Iain Notman said the pair were found at the top of a large mobile crawler crane on the CBD worksite at around 3.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Both were intoxicated and were arrested once they climbed down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They were both charged with unlawfully being in an enclosed yard and were expected to appear in the Dunedin District Court this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Construction at the former Cadbury factory site resumed last year after work was halted for a redesign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The new inpatient building was expected to welcome patients from 2031, two years after the initial opening date of 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including the confirmed cause of death of one of NZ&#8217;s famous stowaway twins, a deadly helicopter collision in Brazil, and looming thunderstorms could cause problems for a UFC event at the White House. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were arrested after they allegedly climbed a large crane at the site of Dunedin&#8217;s new hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-477901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477901","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=477901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}