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Article: Dismal statistics in burglary rates
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- The Press
- Article date:
- July 25, 2009
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Few experiences are quite as disheartening as getting home,
wondering why so many cupboards are open, then with a sickening
feeling notice that the window has been wrenched open with a crowbar
and realise the computer has gone walkabout.
The last time it happened to me was during the last school
holiday break, making me suspicious the perpetrator was a student
whose education had consisted mainly of gaining hitherto unknown
NCEA credits in breaking and entering.
It's enough to instantly convert even the most liberal person
into a hard-line law and order zealot.
Now Canterbury might not be the burglary capital of New Zealand.
That dubious honour belongs to the northern half of the North ...