{"id":479530,"date":"2026-06-16T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479530\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:58:08","slug":"snells-beach-school-pupil-approached-by-stranger-in-van-offered-lollies-asked-to-get-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479530\/","title":{"rendered":"Snells Beach School pupil approached by stranger in van, offered lollies, asked to get in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">She confirmed to the Herald the student is \u201cabsolutely fine and was very calm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The school notified police immediately, who the Herald has approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The school said it  has reminded students about personal safety, and what to do if they\u2019re approached by a stranger to \u201censure they are informed, confident and know how to respond appropriately\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Staff chose not to talk about the specific incident, so students weren\u2019t left feeling worried or scared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Ramel has urged parents and caregivers to remind children to never get into a vehicle with someone they don\u2019t know, and never accept gifts, lollies or offers from strangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">If they are offered a ride or gifts from strangers, they should move quickly to a safe space where other people are present and tell a trusted adult immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She confirmed to the Herald the student is \u201cabsolutely fine and was very calm\u201d. The school notified police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,66406,13916,7972,3595,1333,78,192016,111,43,139,69,28243,3766,29192,54757,4062,150949,24002,9631,165,61,11427,1455,4741],"class_list":["post-479530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-approached","tag-asked","tag-beach","tag-by","tag-get","tag-in","tag-lollies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offered","tag-parents","tag-principal","tag-pupil","tag-school","tag-snells","tag-stranger","tag-student","tag-their","tag-to","tag-van","tag-warning","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479530","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=479530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}