{"id":611275,"date":"2026-09-25T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611275\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:34:11","slug":"christchurch-liquor-store-smashed-up-with-hammer-in-strange-foiled-robbery-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611275\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch liquor store smashed up with hammer in \u2018strange\u2019 foiled robbery attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe tried to then break the rolling shutters, but because it\u2019s pretty heavy they couldn\u2019t do anything. The other guy also tried to smash and kick it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A Christchurch liquor store had its glass smashed by a hammer in a failed robbery attempt overnight. Photo \/ Big Barrel Wigram\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A Christchurch liquor store had its glass smashed by a hammer in a failed robbery attempt overnight. Photo \/ Big Barrel Wigram<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The seemingly frustrated offenders then continued to \u201cbreak the whole glass all over\u201d and \u201cwhatever we had outside\u201d before driving away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEverybody can see clearly the rolling shutter behind the glass door. So maybe they shouldn\u2019t do that, but I don\u2019t know if they were stupid or what,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Singh said the store remained open today after the debris was cleared this morning, with plywood put up to replace the shattered glass front. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s more hassle for us. Now it\u2019s all covered so we can\u2019t really see outside. It\u2019s hard for the customers to see inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">He wasn\u2019t sure how much the damage would cost but expects it to take about a week to repair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they received a report at 8.40am of an attempted burglary at the business and inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Singh said everyone at the store remained \u201cpretty good\u201d but he admitted the incident was \u201ca little bit shocking\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe never expect these kind of things,\u201d he said. \u201cWe got a really good area around here. We\u2019ve got really nice customers coming in. But yeah, things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe tried to then break the rolling shutters, but because it\u2019s pretty heavy they couldn\u2019t do anything. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4496,1558,4487,12513,109670,167839,9637,21140,78,11926,111,43,139,69,6507,27517,50643,2735,653,2189,810,102],"class_list":["post-611275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-attempt","tag-been","tag-christchurch","tag-failed","tag-foiled","tag-frontage","tag-glass","tag-hammer","tag-in","tag-liquor","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-robbery","tag-smashed","tag-store","tag-stores","tag-strange","tag-up","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611275","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=611275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}