{"id":575867,"date":"2026-08-21T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575867\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:52:10","slug":"nrl-toby-rudolf-avoids-conviction-after-exposing-buttocks-to-park-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575867\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL: Toby Rudolf avoids conviction after exposing \u2018buttocks\u2019 to park ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"
The judge granted the forward a section 10 in court meaning he doesn\u2019t face a conviction despite the guilty plea and he was told to remain on good behaviour for nine months.<\/p>\n
Cronulla Sharks forward Toby Rudolf pleaded guilty to an offensive behaviour charge after an argument over putting his dogs on a leash resulted in him dropping his pants. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
Speaking outside the court, Rudolf felt a fair verdict was reached.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not perfect, I\u2019m far from it. It definitely wasn\u2019t my finest moment, and I\u2019m looking forward to rectifying my mistakes and walking my dogs on a leash from now on,\u201d the 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting back out on the field and keeping my pants up.\u201d<\/p>\n
He explained he doesn\u2019t have children, but treats his dogs as if they are.<\/p>\n
\u201cI treat them with the utmost respect, and I love them dearly, and I treat them like my own.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rudolf told media why one of the dogs had been kept off a leash when the ranger confronted him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI rescued Louie from a homeless person who never used to walk him with a leash,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just follows me everywhere, even at training he\u2019ll just wait by my locker until I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prop said he was looking to put the incident behind him and wouldn\u2019t be in that situation again in public.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t really been in these situations a whole lot \u2026 my teammates do see me bare-bottomed, but that usually doesn\u2019t leave the locker room,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be looking to keep it that way in the future for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judge granted the forward a section 10 in court meaning he doesn\u2019t face a conviction despite the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,1135,33524,23485,283610,32294,15970,42036,17309,180179,5504,293,36338,809,111,139,577,69,44404,8143,9617,78342,283609,213,61,121620,44977],"class_list":["post-575867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-australian","tag-avoids","tag-bottom","tag-buttocks","tag-charge","tag-conviction","tag-dismissal","tag-exposed","tag-exposing","tag-following","tag-his","tag-judges","tag-keep","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-pants","tag-park","tag-player","tag-ranger","tag-rudolf","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-toby","tag-vowed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575867","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=575867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}