Saturday, May 19, 2012

What is it with Masterton?

"She refused to go to her room, so a 10-year-old girl was gagged and bound with duct tape and shut in a laundry by her furious father..."


"A Masterton man was jailed for pretending to hang his 9-year-old son in a mock execution, and binding another of his sons with chains before beating him with a piece of wood..."


I will be running a series of posts on this town, as for a  town of 20,000 it is way over represented in the court news. I know that about 25% of the regional prison inmate name Masterton as 'home'...

4 comments:

PM of NZ said...

It's a result of all those hours spent by the local yoof cruisin' Chapel Street on a Friday night looking for something (or somebody) to do.

Later in life the tedium obviously unhinges some.

/sarc

KG said...

It's a weird, schizoid place to live in. One the one hand there are many ordinary, decent folk and on the other.......
The subsidized housing is a large part of the problem. That and damn-near invisible policing. (invisible, that is until the speedo creeps up to a few k's over the limit).

Redbaiter said...

Looked like a nice place last time I was there.

Oswald Bastable said...

That's it- it is mostly a nice place, full of ordinary decent folks. As for the rest, I believe KG has it spot-on.