Taranaki Daily News:

I think the full costs of the cleanup operation, the lost productivity and the police work should be charged to the culprit. These righties do, after all, believe in being tough on crime.

How else?

Brilliant call by Billy though.

“Inside the letter, that told the PM to get out of the country “while you still can”, the defendant had stapled a fold and filled it with a teaspoon of flour.

Two days later the letter was opened in the Beehive mail room on the eighth floor.

On discovery of the white powder a full-scale emergency operation commenced that included the floor being sealed, emergency services called and the four staff who had come into contact with the letter were isolated and subject to a decontamination shower.

The powder was sent to ESR for examination.

The floor remained in lockdown until the following morning, preventing staff from working and the mail room was sealed for a further four days until the powder was confirmed as flour.”

Still, it’s not like he did anything EVIL like say, a Google joke. If he’d done that he’d have been a real Menace To Society, and would have to be Exposed by the Fearless Media.

But Taranaki’s such a long drive, and reporters might get their shoes dirty. Let’s just do stories on people who live in Auckland.

“anatomically”

How about your own gold-painted statuette of ‘Sod?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4694892a6000.html

http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=2897#comment-84322

And I don’t want any of that useless class consciousness.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dailynews/4678735a6002.html

Credit to the Taranaki Daily News for following it up. And to the cops.