{"id":493377,"date":"2026-06-24T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493377\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:12:18","slug":"man-clings-to-back-of-moving-corrections-van-travelling-through-auckland-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493377\/","title":{"rendered":"Man clings to back of moving Corrections van travelling through Auckland CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey have spoken with their drivers, who were unaware of this incident at the time but were informed by a member of the public after it had happened yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have asked the contractor to remind their staff about remaining vigilant, particularly when driving through urban areas, and to report any suspicious activity to police immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said they had not received any reports of the incident when approached for comment by the Herald.<\/p>\n

Commenters on the video shared their disbelief at the man\u2019s daring gambit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWait till he hits the motorway\u201d, one person wrote. \u201cBetter hold on tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a risky ride your lucky you didn\u2019t end up inside it\u201d, another said.<\/p>\n

Others were shocked the driver had failed to notice his unexpected cargo.<\/p>\n

\u201cShows how often the driver uses his mirrors\u201d, someone wrote.<\/p>\n

Another asked, \u201cno one honks or flashes their lights to alert the driver?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey have spoken with their drivers, who were unaware of this incident at the time but were informed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,3952,1863,31426,204574,160884,19686,2516,25207,71,42,5158,2686,43,1118,20937,12064,210,61,40,38,41,39,112,14344,11427,6845],"class_list":["post-493377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-back","tag-cbd","tag-clinging","tag-clings","tag-clip","tag-concern","tag-corrections","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-man","tag-moving","tag-news","tag-of","tag-prisoner","tag-prompted","tag-through","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport","tag-travelling","tag-van","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493377","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=493377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}