# In Other Bizarre NZ News:

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-bizarre-nz-news/274589>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 13, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-bizarre-nz-news/274589 "2004-11-13T19:38:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-bizarre-nz-news/274589/1 "2004-11-13T19:38:37Z")

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I’m not sure whether to put this in GD, MPSIMS, or the Pit, but let’s start it here and see whether there’s a debatable issue or cries of outrage that make it appropriate to move.

[This _New Zealand Herald_ story](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=202343&thesection=news&thesubsection=general) reports a 47-year-old man spending five weeks in jail, awaiting 27 charges, before it’s discovered that the person accusing him of having underage sex is not the 16-year-old boy “he” had purported to be in filing the complaints, but a 30-year-old woman.

It’s a bizarre story. Do any Kiwi Dopers have any idea what the “backstory” is on this?

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-bizarre-nz-news/274589/2 "2004-11-13T19:51:01Z")

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I guess the first bit of bizzare NZ news was [Just in time for the holidays! New Zealand bee semen. YAY!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=286207).

Other than that, I got nothing. Unlike the chap in the story.

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-bizarre-nz-news/274589/3 "2004-11-13T20:27:05Z")

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Googling several combinations didn’t flush out a backstory. Apparently Karangahape Road is something of a cruisy area, as it is mentioned in “A Chronology of Homosexuality in New Zealand-Part 1”. Another site states that the area “comes alive at night”. I’ll take their word on that one, fer sure. 😉

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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-bizarre-nz-news/274589/4 "2004-11-14T02:18:23Z")

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Don’t know the story, since I was out of the country then, but yeah, K Rd’s pretty seamy at night: dodgy strip clubs and massage parlours, full of drunks and dero’s, and streetwalkers of the seedier {often hairy-legged trannies and glue-sniffing rent-boys} persuasion. Kinda colourful, though - various business associations keep trying to “clean it up”, but it remains stubbornly resistant to gentrification.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-bizarre-nz-news/274589/5 "2004-11-14T06:15:35Z")

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> [@The New Zealand Herald](#):
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> The boy alleged that in May the man forced him to inhale the fantasy drug “Rush” before making him perform oral sex and submit to other violations.

“Fantasy drug?” That makes butyl nitrate sound a _hell_ of a lot more interesting than it is.