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Thread ID: 137879 2014-09-01 06:01:00 Hobo with a Shotgun Cato (6936) PC World Chat
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1382999 2014-09-01 06:01:00 A homeless man has shot 3 people at WINZ in Ashburton.

www.nzherald.co.nz
Cato (6936)
1383000 2014-09-01 06:29:00 You can only push some people so far. prefect (6291)
1383001 2014-09-01 06:30:00 Sounds like he lost the plot. wainuitech (129)
1383002 2014-09-01 07:00:00 He needed help. www.nzherald.co.nz Cato (6936)
1383003 2014-09-01 07:30:00 Marble-mouth puts her 2c in www.nzherald.co.nz Renegade (16270)
1383004 2014-09-01 07:56:00 He spent many years working for the mines in Australia. Why is he homeless and broke? The mines pay huge salary's. Pathetic! mzee (3324)
1383005 2014-09-01 08:08:00 He spent many years working for the mines in Australia. Why is he homeless and broke? The mines pay huge salary's. Pathetic!

My thoughts were similar.

Mine work pays well. What's happened to the proceeds of that work?
He left his flat and was living in his car - so without the expense of rent where was that portion of his benefit being spent?
He sold his car - so where had he spent the proceeds of that sale?

I suspect he's blown his money, and his brain cells on drugs. This is a tragedy which ultimately may have been entirely of his own design.

Now he'll be living rent free, at great expense to us for the next 15 years.

That sawn-off shotgun should have been under his chin (pointing upwards) when the first shot was fired.
Paul.Cov (425)
1383006 2014-09-01 09:07:00 Well without knowing all the finer detail it’s had to say what went wrong, but from what has been reported I would say he was screaming out for help and had “Time Bomb” written all over him.

Damn shame that none of those he approached could read. :groan:
B.M. (505)
1383007 2014-09-01 09:32:00 Two words

Personal Responsibility

No one is to blame but him.
DeSade (984)
1383008 2014-09-01 10:10:00 You're missing the point DeSade.

Here's a guy who is physically and mentally unwell, and living on the street trying to get money from WINZ.

Considering that he has been in touch with a bunch of MPs, politicians and who knows who else, considering that he was trespassed from the very WINZ office...
At what point does someone say: Hey this guy needs help!

Why wasn't he sent off to a nut house to be assessed?

If he was "moved" by the police due to complaints, how did they not spot the gun on him?
How did he get his gun?

As B.M. put it: time bomb.
Cato (6936)
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