ERIC RUSH ACCUSED OF ASSAULT

According to The Herald on Sunday (18^th November 2012) Police are looking into an assault complaint against All Black legend Eric Rush.  

The 47-year-old owner-operator of New World in Browns Bay has been accused of shoving a 21-year-old staff member, check-out operator Andrew Hart.

More details here.

In February 1999 Rush pleaded guilty to charges of careless driving causing the death of 23-year-old Brendon Malcolm, of Tauranga, and careless driving causing injury to Mr Malcolm's wife, Claire, and a passenger in the couple's car, Bryce Casey. 

The October of the previous year Rush, driving a borrowed sponsors Ford Falcon, was travelling from a rugby training camp in Rotorua to a speaking engagement in Auckland when his car failed to take a bend on State Highway 2 and smashed head-on into the Malcolms' car near Mangatawhiri, north-east of Pokeno.

The former All Black and New Zealand sevens captain was ordered to do 200 hours' community service, pay more than $15,000 reparation and lost his driver's licence for 18 months.

 

 

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON & BROTHER

                                                                     "Don't fucking mess with them AB's!"

Despite his son admitting a charge of injuring with intent to injure, which onlookers said left the far smaller man unconscious and bleeding on a local road, The N.Z Herald is reporting the father of former All Black Keith Robinson allegedly attempted to intimidate his sons victim at his Te Aroha work-place.   

Witness’s report an aggravated Jock Robinson marched into his work and asked the victim ‘Why the f... did you call the police?'." 

After Mr Robinson senior was eventually asked to leave the store by staff he allegedly responded by doing a threatening gun gesture – namely putting his fingers to his head in the form of a gun and pulled the trigger," the witness said.   

The victim and staff did the right thing by reporting the whole incident to the local police.  

Te Aroha police confirmed a complaint had been laid against Mr Robinson senior by two men but could not say whether any charges would follow.  

Mr Robinson senior was subsequently trespassed from the Ema St business.  

God it must be tough living in a small town in New Zealand after an incident like this. 

Live in a place where the victim suffers further courtesy of the perpetrators social status.  

Truly sad we see it is the victim who is the person ostracised by elements within the Waikato townships community.    

All you need to do here to see the social status bestowed upon All Blacks in this country is to replace All Black with Black Power in this case. 

If the alleged offender had have been a drunken member of The Black Power gang who beat up a man outside a pub and pelleted him with bottles and then his father went to his place of work and acted in the same fashion the community would have supported him completely.  

So in actuality it would have been better for the Te Aroha victim in this case to have been savaged by a Black Power gang member than an All Black.

What a sad indictment but fairly typical for a family that has previously been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Say a Coromandel Camp Ground in 2002.  
 

 

Note: All parties are considered innocent until proven guilty.     

WHY NAME SUPPRESSION OF HIGH PROFILE RUGBY PLAYERS IS A JOKE

Back a few years a certain AB was granted permanent name suppression after pleading guilty in the Wellington District Court to fraudulently using a previous employer's taxi chits worth $152.50. He was fined $500 plus costs. 

Well he’s now writing autobiography and an integral part of his tell-all memoirs is the taxi-chits incident which he dubs a low-point in his life. 

There’s one problem detailing this low-point in writing. 

The details were permanently suppressed by the Courts after he successfully pleaded at the time for them to do so.  

But now the smoke-has-settled and there’s a whiff of big dollars in the air through book sales he now wants this name suppression lifted!  

Talk about using the system to suit the circumstances.  

Judiciary of New Zealand take note.  
 

Grand evidence indeed well-known N.Z Rugby players are making a mockery of suppression laws. 

 

If perchance these offenders had pride in their jersey – the same pride Kiwi public naively automatically bestow on players regardless of their anti- social behaviour – they wouldn’t denigrate the name by their actions in the first place.   

This web site wouldn’t exist.  

Clearly the New Zealand public has more pride in the All Black name than many All Blacks themselves.

 

Far too many All Blacks care little about the laws of our country, abuse their social status.  

Sources:    N.Z Herald1      NZ Herald 2  

CONVICTED EX ALL BLACK FIGHTS TO KEEP HIS NAME & DETAILS OF HIS INDECENT ACT A SECRET

A former All Black appeared in the Dunedin District Court on October 15^th where he had had an application for permanent name suppression and discharge without conviction turned down.  

Ex AB X’s lawyer has appealed against the rulings, claiming the harm to his reputation if his name is revealed would outweigh the severity of the offence.

Perhaps ABX should have thought about his reputation prior to the offence?  

ABX was ordered to pay $6500 in reparation to the victim. 

He admitted making an indecent advance upon her at her home in November of 2011.  

Since an application for permanent name suppression was turned-down - when are N.Zers going to know who he is, the finer details of his crime?   

With the complete lack of details on the individual other than his likely home town, sporting affiliations it spreads dispersion upon all ex All Blacks in the Otago region, so he owes it to them to front-up.  

The Court should have at least listed his age in order to protect his innocent team-mates even if  ABX and his lawyer thinks more about his reputation over the team he played for.    

Despite temporary name suppression his name, crime details are sure to be whispered over bar leaners down South anyway.   

 

Source: One News

 

GUILDFORD BACK ON THE PISS

Last year The New Zealand Rugby Union and Crusaders said they would will help Zac Guildford rather than tearing up his contract following alleged naked, drunken incidents in a Cook Islands bar and the harassing of a local female athlete [details and video]   

This is not the first time recently we have had an All Black half naked in a Pacific Resort, blotto with booze, groping a young lady and assaulting innocent holiday-makers over the Christmas Holidays.   

Just ask Robin Brooke.    

 

But back to Guildford.

 

Even prior to Rarotonga the Crusaders and former All Black winger had admitted to issues with alcohol after booze-fuelled incidents in Brisbane and Auckland. 

His career on a knife-edge Guildford said he would get his drinking under control once and for all.  

Vowed to give up the piss altogether. 

Well at least till the end of 2012.  

Place rugby and his family first.   

This is Guildford ‘on the large’ at The Ellerslie Races on 6^th November 2012.  

 

 

 

Make your own conclusions as to his sincerity to give-up.  

Take a guess at what punishment awaits him from Todd Blackadder. 

Sweat FA.  

 

By the way Zac’s uncle believes the Press and NZRU are always picking on his nephew who according to Daren Guildford acts just like other Kiwi’s his age, well at least the ones in his gene pool.    

 

 

ANOTHER PUB INCIDENT ANOTHER EX ALL BLACK FACING ASSAULT CHARGES

Yet, another ‘ex’ AB and another incident outside a North Island pub – this time a tavern ironically owned at the time by Bryce Robins (54) who was bailed on a wounding charge in The New Plymouth Court on 12^th December.    

Post the incident in Easter 2010 Robins abandoned N.Z and now lives in Perth having sold-up his N.Z interests.   

Previously two other men, mates of Robbins, Noel Bland and Robert Clements were found guilty in separate trails over the same charge, one which left the victim with a permanent brain injury.  

Both Bland and Clements got six years in the clink.   

Robbins trial for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm of a patron will be what Police call ‘part three.’  


Sources:   Stuff NZ 1     Stuff NZ 2

PISSED-UP ALL BLACK HARDMAN ADMITS BOTTLE ATTACK

Up in Te Aroha they breed hard-men, like former All Black Keith Robinson who admitted a charge of injuring with intent after an incident at the Palace Hotel on December 09^th part of a ‘man cave’ piss-up trip he was on.  

It appears All-Black hard men beat-up blokes half their size and close to twice their age.  

All-Black hard men leave their victims unconscious and bleeding on the ground. 

All Black enforcers then pelt their prone victims with beer bottles and have to be dragged away by mates before doing more damage. 

But despite pleading guilty being “really bummed” it’s hard to find anyone in Te Aroha who has a bad-word to say about their prized son. 

Anonymously they reveled to media “When [Robinson] isn’t drinking and straight, he’s all good” 

Wow that’s a faux vote of confidence if I ever saw one and warning for anyone who doesn’t know him to stay well away when he’s had a few.  

Two unnamed locals who played in the same Rugby Club attempted to exonerate his actions when drunk as being simply ‘competitive’. 

No sympathy for the fellow local who was described as being a nice guy who didn’t deserve being attacked.  

Let’s find-out how ‘hard’ Keith Robinson really is when, with a bit of luck, he does time.   

Still that would be wishful thinking. 

All Blacks can always play their ‘Get-Out Of Jail Free Card’ in this country.

ABOUT THIS BLOG

Have you ever noticed the disproportionate numbers of New Zealand’s Rugby Union players involved in criminal activity? 

By comparison name me say a single top N.Z hockey, soccer, rower  etc charged with assault?  

Yet, despite their criminal practices, predominately assaults, were these respected sportspeople to walk into a local pub near you these individuals would still be idolised!  

More-ever I agree with the notion the N.Z Legal system has a different set of standards for these so-called elite sportsmen than Joe-public.   

Faced with player offending the respective Unions mitigate, close ranks and rarely punish ‘their man’ proportionate to his crime.   

This web site exists based on the inconvenient truth that elite rugby players are seemingly always in the news for the wrong reasons.  

It feeds on N.Z's top Rugby Union players high rates of offending.  

To make it wither away is therefore easy: starve me of material.    

These players need to simply act within the laws of New Zealand and for New Zealanders from the judges down to fans to stop thinking they are someone special.  

Note: All individuals are considered innocent until proven guilty. The information published on this blog comes from the public domain.