New Truth & TV Extra back issues from February 2006:
Kiwi pleads: Let me stay!
Feb 02, 2006; ... THEY'RE kicking me out of my own country, says a "fair dinkumKiwi". The British-born New Zealander - who has lived here for 38 years -now has just three weeks before he has to leave. His lawyers are now working to ensure he can stay. But the Department of Labour, ...
A PAWN STAR! It's checkmate for career in blue movies
Feb 02, 2006; ... A WANNABE porn queen now aims to be a pawn queen. Amy Cater-Millano, 25, formed a Queenstown porn company in 2002and wrote most of the script for a porn film in a Christchurch jailcell, while on remand for assault. She was convicted and discharged. Now the former bad ...
CROSSED-UP Jesus was a black stoner
Feb 02, 2006; ... JESUS slept with a prostitute, fathered children, was black andused pot, according to recent books and movies. In Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, he didn't die on the cross butmoved to France and fathered children with "prostitute" MaryMagdalene. Jesus was also named top ...
PURE HELL! How meth destroyed my family
Feb 02, 2006 ... FORMER P addict Carolyn Britten knows first-hand the damageillegal drugs can inflict - they tore her family apart. A close family member is in prison and her 18-year relationship isover because of drugs. Britten stopped using P after armed police raided her home andpointed ...
Shattered glass
Feb 02, 2006 ... One of Carolyn Britten's family had a dream at 4am one morning.She was standing in front of a mirror looking at herself while shewas injecting P and the mirror shattered. Here's part of the poem shewrote that night: I AM meth - I destroy homes, I tear families apart, I take ...
New girls on the block vamp it up
Feb 02, 2006 ... THE sex industry is a great one for women say the owners ofAuckland's newest female-run parlour. North Shore's Vamps was opened a month ago to cater for "youngNorth Shore boys and discreet gentlemen". And co-owners Sandy Waugh and Lynette Evans say a parlour run bywomen is ...
Gender-bender contest may earn women respect
Feb 02, 2006 ... AN Auckland radio station is prepared to pay a bloke $10,000 tolive as a woman for two weeks. What? I've been living as one all my life and nobody's given mecash for enduring my existence. More FM wants the contestant to devote the entire fortnight tobeing a woman. Any ...
Maori fishing calendar
Feb 02, 2006 ... Date Rating Time Comment Feb 3 Bad 5.32 Try after breakfast Feb 4Bad 6.20 Before dawn Feb 5 Fair 6.45 Picking up Feb 6 ...
Time for Valuev to show some guts
Feb 02, 2006; ... HE may be big but he's no different from the man he beat. Huge, 2.13m-tall World Boxing Association heavyweight NikolaiValuev took the heavyweight title from John Ruiz last month. Now he's announced his new opponent - Owen "What the Heck" Beck. I can't remember a ...
Prison time prospect for Hamed
Feb 02, 2006; ... FORMER world featherweight king Prince Naseem Hamed is in hotwater for crashing into another car at 144kmh. A British court was told last week the head-on smash broke everymajor bone in the other driver's body and damaged his brain. Hamed, who didn't enter a plea and was ...
Weighty issue
Feb 02, 2006; ... THE Kevin Barry-David Tua feud won't go away. Last weekend's revelations of claims by Barry's brother Brian - aformer Team Tua manager - that Tua knew nothing about the banned drughe was being fed created further shockwaves in the sport. It would be nice to think this was the ...
Meth ripped family apart
Feb 02, 2006 ... FORMER P addict Carolyn Britten has described how the drug toreher family apart. One close relative is in prison, her 18-year relationship is overand armed ...
SEVENS SHAME
Feb 02, 2006; ... SEVENS fans feel cheated. Gathering in their thousands this weekend for the iconic rugbysevens event in Wellington, fans, many of whom have paid big money,will be forced to watch a New Zealand team without any big nameplayers--again. It's getting to the farcical stage ....
Doc's clinic now brothel
Feb 09, 2006; ... A DOCTOR will dish out medicine of a different kind when heconverts his Northland surgery into a sex parlour. Dr Neil Benson says sex workers won't have to travel far forhealth checks in his Northland town of Coopers Beach after he opensfor business. And because of the ...
KILLER CAN Son's death sparks plea
Feb 09, 2006; ... CHILDREN risk their lives by getting high on a computer cleaningproduct, police say. A can of compressed air used to blow dust from computers killedthe son of a drug- savvy US policeman. Community Alcohol and Drug Services regional manager RobertSteenhuisen says his ...
Amateurs strip for the thrill NAKED DESIRE
Feb 09, 2006 ... BABES love to get nude on stage, says White House strip club ownerBrian Le Gros. A woman from the crowd recently joined the act at his club andstripped. But she's far from the first to do it at the inner-city Aucklandvenue. "Girls are giving it a go. They all want ...
Maori fishing calendar
Feb 09, 2006 ... Date Rating Time Comment Feb 10 Bad 11.09 Before mid-day best Feb11 Bad 12.00 Fire up the smoker Feb 12 Bad 12.47 Early afternoon ...
Tua opts out Briggs bout apparently on hold
Feb 09, 2006; ... WORD reached me as Truth went to press that Kiwi heavyweight DavidTua's advisers had turned down his fight with Shannon Briggs. Tua could easily have met Briggs 10 years ago. Both fighters appeared on the same billing in 1996, The Night ofthe Young Heavyweights ....
Plea to 'sex it up' guys!
Feb 16, 2006; ... WOMEN who say blokes make too many mistakes during sex are givingtips for better loving on an erotic website. Top of www. amega4x4.com's Sensual Pleasure list of sexual no-nosare men who dive for erogenous zones without kissing - it makes women"feel like you're paying by the ...
The Porkbone Kid
Feb 16, 2006 ... TIMES were hard and Witi needed a new set of golf clubs. With persuasive rhetoric he convinced his missus she was theanswer to "their" fiscal shortfall. One busy summer night he deposited her, in a micro-mini skirt, onK Rd. Six hours later she staggers into the ...
STALK-HER; He's tracking his lover by cellphone
Feb 16, 2006; ... JEALOUS, stalking boyfriends don't need James Bond-style high-tech knickers to track their girlfriends - they can download softwareon to her phone. Truth last month revealed a scam claiming you can track down yourlover through technology attached to her panties. The website ...
GANG TAUNT Wannabes 'just sheep'
Feb 16, 2006; ... GANG WANNABES are just sheep wanting to live a game of shoot-em-up cops and robbers, says a reformed Mongrel Mob president. Willie McGregor says a young hood's promise that blood will flowwhen he muscles in on established ethnic gangs is foolish. "I feel sorry for the ...
BLIND JUSTICE; Under-age hookers 'ignored'
Feb 16, 2006; ... SCHOOLGIRL hookers are picked up in Christchurch but police inAuckland are too used to seeing them on the street to do anything. Sophie, who worked Auckland's streets as a 17-year-old, sayspolice have become too desensitised to under-age girls selling sex. "There are always ...
Hot 'n' tough
Feb 16, 2006 ... THEY'RE hot, they're tough - they're the WWE Divas! The sultry babes will hit town when the World WrestlingEntertainment SmackDown Road To WrestleMania tour 22 visitsWellington on March 4. They provide the show's "eye candy", escorting wrestlers orstaging their own "bra and ...
Hooked on a 'perfect pleasure'; What's it good for?
Feb 16, 2006; ... GOOD luck to the estate of Janice Pou, who died of lung cancer inSeptember 2002. As this is being written her children are suing in Auckland twotobacco manufacturers for $310,000 for making the cigarettes thatkilled her. Of course it is possible to develop lung cancer from ...
End in sight?
Feb 16, 2006; ... IS THIS the end of the line for Guillermo "Pantera" Mosquera? The Auckland-based, Colombian-born light-welterweight was bowledover three times in the first round by International BoxingFederation No 15- ranked lightweight Michael Katsidis at Toowoomba,Queensland, on Saturday ....
Tama-horny's 'coming out' typical of Tinsletown
Feb 16, 2006 ... I WONDER what it is about Hollywood that makes people go a tadcrazy. Maybe it's something in the water that causes the rich and famousto go wild and horny and willing to look for sex in the mostridiculous public places. The latest sexploits involve one of our own. Lee ...
Two tough local bouts ahead
Feb 16, 2006; ... THE Auckland Boxing Association's next promotion on February 23 isa return match between slick Bruce Glozier and tough and durable WestAucklander Chris Rehu. The undercard features a heavyweight bout between well- performedFrank Atu and tough kickboxer Sio Vitale. Expect a ...
No angel - but far from alone
Feb 16, 2006; ... I WAS amused to read a recent local newspaper report revealing so-called damaging evidence showing new WBA heavyweight boxing championNikolai Valuev is no angel. According to the article, reprinted from the UK's Independent, theBeast from the East beat up a elderly parking ...
Cops blind to gymslip hookers
Feb 16, 2006; ... COPS are turning a blind eye to schoolgirl hookers. Sophie, who worked the streets as a 17-year-old, told Truth: "Ithink they believe it's the way of life--but it's a crime, you know." Police ...
Spot the dickhead
Feb 16, 2006; ... ONE of these blokes is a complete dickhead. One of these men is fanatical about sport. One of these men has polarised a nation. One of these men is a lightweight. One of these men believes some of his mates are top sportsmen. One of these men rates ...
Nude games all the rage
Feb 23, 2006; ... NUDE computer games are becoming more realistic and hooking morepeople. Game developers say the rising age of players means sex and nudityare becoming increasingly acceptable. While no naked games were blockbusters last year, publishers anddevelopers aim to change this ....
BID FRENZY Valentine date auction has women lusting
Feb 23, 2006; ... THE greatest lovers have nothing on a 24-year-old Kiwi who spurreda frenzy of female interest when he was auctioned online onValentine's Day. In just three hours the young Auckland professional's notice had16,270 TradeMe website hits. Under the user name Sharkstang was a ...
SEX COP-OUT Child hooker clients ignored
Feb 23, 2006; ... POLICE who know men are buying sex from under-age prostitutes arenot doing enough to catch them, says a campaigner. In Truth's lead story last week, Cops blind to gymslip hookers, aprostitute who worked Auckland streets as a 17-year-old said policewere ignoring the young hookers ...
PAID IN P Lawyers take fees in drugs
Feb 23, 2006 ... LAWYERS are charging grams of methamphetamine for their time - andan Auckland woman says her son is in jail because of it. The distraught solo mum told Truth her son is doing time becausehis "sleazebag" lawyer walked out on his "petty theft" case. She says the lawyer skipped ...
Sometimes size isn't everything
Feb 23, 2006; ... SO Tokelau has decided it isn't ready to be a fully-independentnation yet. Sounds reasonable - with a local population of about 1400 peoplein three villages, it's not exactly a global superpower. Although as it happens, size isn't everything. Physically, the world's ...
It could be worse
Feb 23, 2006 ... SMALLNESS is no barrier to technological sophistication, either. Niue - population 2166 - has broadband wireless internet over theentire country. Not a great feat considering the place is a 260sq km South Pacificcoral island, but there are a lot of New Zealand computer users ...
Maori fishing calendar
Feb 23, 2006 ... Date Rating Time Comment Feb 24 Good 9.39 The incoming tide Feb 25Good 10.42 Early afternoon best Feb 26 Good 11.43 Late evening Feb ...
Games KO?
Feb 23, 2006; ... CONTROVERSIAL Commonwealth Games selection Soulan Pownceby'schances of competing in Melbourne next month aren't looking good. There's still no word from Australia on his visa application andlast weekend the New Zealand team headed across the Tasman for tune-up fights minus the ...
Baby Joe lines up Puerto Rico bout
Feb 23, 2006 ... BRAIN-injured heavyweight "Baby" Joe Mesi, whose backers weresniffing at the chance of a New Zealand fight, will almost certainlynot appear. He was supposed to fight cruiserweight Chad Van Sickle in Aucklandthis month but will now face an unnamed opponent in Puerto Rico ...
Shock death arrest
Feb 23, 2006 ... KIWI heavyweight Shane Cameron's former sparring partner DaleCrowe has been charged in relation to the death of a man whose bodywas found in a rubbish bin three and a half years ago. US heavyweight Crowe, 29, was arrested last Saturday outsideHamilton County courthouse, ...
ALL RIGHT
Feb 23, 2006; ... SOCCER sensation Jeremy Brockie has been earmarked as a futurestar of the game. Former All White stalwart and Sky Sport's soccer analyst MarkElrick believes the dreadlocked Knights player can become one of ourbest ever if he's "developed in the right environment" ....
Bent Briefs Paid With Drugs
Feb 23, 2006 ... SLEAZY lawyers are acting for clients in return for drugs. The shock allegations come from a mother who claims her son's injail because his ...
Oti shows his class with sharp, hard-hitting return
Feb 09, 2006; ... NEW Zealand super-middleweight champion Lee Oti looked sharp onhis ring return after a long layoff after a bout of hepatitis B. Even though he and opponent Tapanuu Tagalima had been gym-mates atSains Gym in Otahuhu a couple of years ago, this bout was no "work-around". Both ...
Pocket Rocket - once
Feb 09, 2006; ... THE New Zealand public almost certainly won't remember WayneMcCullough's appearance at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. They may remember games official Bob Gibson singing Danny Boy asMcCullough was presented with the flyweight gold medal because thetape of the Northern ...
Babes Just Wanna Strip Off
Feb 09, 2006; ... BABES are lining up to get their gear off. That's the word from top strip club operator Brian Le Gros. He says more and ...
SUPER YAWN
Feb 09, 2006; ... NORMAL service will resume this weekend. Despite the continuing golden summer and forgetting the fact ourcricketers are still to play a test series against the Calypso Clownsfrom the West Indies, the much-heralded Super 14 kicks off thisweekend. The professional tournament, ...