"After receiving an eviction notice, the tenants trashed the place in a week-long drinking session dubbed "the point of no return". They smashed the chimney and lit a fire in the lounge that they eventually put out by urinating on the flames.
"We could have fixed up the house in that time but we decided not to, so we made things a whole lot worse. It was easier and a lot more fun. We just got boozed and did stupid stuff.
"We definitely went a bit overboard but we could have done a lot more. We could have completely demolished it."
Nash said the young men were taken to the tenancy tribunal court and ordered to pay $10,400, although the damage was worth $60,000.He said the letting agent claimed insurance on much of the damage. "There is a law [which states] she could only charge us $12,000 so we got off pretty easy really, and that was minus the bond which was about $1600 ... we are paying $10 a week until it is paid off."
"We could have fixed up the house in that time but we decided not to, so we made things a whole lot worse. It was easier and a lot more fun. We just got boozed and did stupid stuff.
"We definitely went a bit overboard but we could have done a lot more. We could have completely demolished it."
Nash said the young men were taken to the tenancy tribunal court and ordered to pay $10,400, although the damage was worth $60,000.He said the letting agent claimed insurance on much of the damage. "There is a law [which states] she could only charge us $12,000 so we got off pretty easy really, and that was minus the bond which was about $1600 ... we are paying $10 a week until it is paid off."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10781976
seems the TT is legally toothless even before their built in favoritism
imho their cars should have been sold or crushed as a widely publicized example
instead of that example
we have will add another widely publicized example of a fine that is less than the interest on the damage
which will advertise
that there are no real consequence for such acts
and the result of removing the consequences
results in encouraging them
to think
they think
they are such "legends" they were willing to star in a youtube movie
and their actions were excusable because they were under 20 and "could have done worse"
before the left is fit to ever govern again in nz
it needs to show
it has the tools to deal with such ratbags
and will use them
every tenant now can say
"i'm not as bad as those guys
get off my back about the; filthy house, broken windows and holes in the walls
none of it was malicious
go to TT
see what i care
if my benefit is docked $5 a week"
imho their cars should have been sold or crushed as a widely publicized example
instead of that example
we have will add another widely publicized example of a fine that is less than the interest on the damage
which will advertise
that there are no real consequence for such acts
and the result of removing the consequences
results in encouraging them
to think
they think
they are such "legends" they were willing to star in a youtube movie
and their actions were excusable because they were under 20 and "could have done worse"
before the left is fit to ever govern again in nz
it needs to show
it has the tools to deal with such ratbags
and will use them
every tenant now can say
"i'm not as bad as those guys
get off my back about the; filthy house, broken windows and holes in the walls
none of it was malicious
go to TT
see what i care
if my benefit is docked $5 a week"
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