Guilford avoids assault charge
15 Nov 2011
Zac Guildford will not be charged for alleged assault during a drunken evening as nobody has laid a complaint.
The All Blacks wing was picked up by Cook Island police on Thursday night at a popular bar after complaints had been lodged about his behaviour. The officers arrived to find Guilford drunk, naked and bleeding from cuts and scratches incurred during what was initially reported to be a brawl with a 60-year-old patron. When police arrived they said there was no evidence of a physical fight.
On Tuesday morning acting police commissioner Aka Matapo said no assault charges had been filed, and explained they had only taken Guilford into custody so that they could escort him to the hospital to have his wounds treated. Guilford attempted to escape en route to the hospital and was later taken to the police station ‘to prevent any more breach of the peace on that particular night,’ Matapo told the Dominion Post.
‘He was very remorseful, apologetic of his actions and he couldn’t remember what had happened. He was warned, he was told what happened and why he was detained here at the police station, and by then the police realised that he was a member of the All Blacks.’
Guilford, however, has also been accused of harassment by Cook Islands tri-athlete Kelly Pick, who claims a drunk Guildford drove slowly past her, back and forth, on his rented scooter ‘shouting inappropriate sexual and defamatory comments to me’ while she was running on Friday.
‘His behaviour was totally inappropriate to the point where I felt unsafe,’ Pick said in a letter to the Cook Island News. ‘He was obviously highly intoxicated and driving his rental scooter very dangerously and speeding like an idiot. I got back from my run totally shaken and angry that someone feels they have the right to harass and leer at other people. We don’t need tourists like him on our island.’
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15 Nov 2011, 14:40 pm
ProZac Guildford…
15 Nov 2011, 14:43 pm
If a 60year old man gave him a run for his money then the chances are very good that bin williams will ask him to be his next oponent in his next fight.
15 Nov 2011, 14:49 pm
@ufo(ufo)-100: is that before or after kicking the dog?
15 Nov 2011, 14:52 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-103:
hopefully the whisperer gets to the bottom of it…
15 Nov 2011, 15:35 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-98: I know i find it boggleing, how did humanity survive for so long.
We did crazy things that when i think back give me the krills (whatever the word is) jumping off Uvongo gorge one of them and impaling a cop car a with a spear from a speargun at a party (ok that wasnt me) but still when very young you do crazy things and mostly have a lot of fun and then most people mature
and become dull.
Wonder if guys still stick there bums out the window and moon the world when driving in convoy to rugby matches lolol that was funny.
15 Nov 2011, 15:53 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-105: Eish, Uvongo… I rate that as one of the stupidest drunk things I’ve ever done. Matric holiday, smashed, and convinced that leaping 20 odd meters into a lagoon is somehow a good idea. I’m not a big fan of heights and would not do it sober.
15 Nov 2011, 16:01 pm
Yea getting hammered and streaking is one thing…hell who hasn’t…but then you start assaulting senior citizens and harassing women, it takes a more serious turn…sounds like a World(Wanker)Champion to me…..
15 Nov 2011, 16:02 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-105: I dived off there once, felt like I’d been hit in the head with a sledgehammer, had a headache for 2 days….never did that again!!
15 Nov 2011, 16:20 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-106:
Also did it dronk,too scared of heights aswell.
15 Nov 2011, 16:27 pm
Just get right for next years S15 – SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADERS
15 Nov 2011, 16:30 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-106: We were mostly sober, hurt like hell.
@Atreides(Atreides)-108: Jeez you crazy to dive of there, jumping was scarey enough, but when you have guys daring you and saying you a ninny
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-109: its seems i am not a ninny after all, considering the weaker s*x needs booze to do it
15 Nov 2011, 16:32 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-111:
Mate’s boet did a swallow dive.
Atleast I did it.
15 Nov 2011, 16:37 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-111: 2 things…a few drinks make you brave, and did some diving at school…..but 5 meters doesn’t prepare you for that height!!
15 Nov 2011, 16:46 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-111: I’ve done the jump, stone cold sober. Absolutely frightening. It has been banned for a few years now after someone got killed. He landed on a rock as far as I can remember.
15 Nov 2011, 20:33 pm
WOW you Saffers just take the cake, nothing but a bunch of bleating moaning hypocrites. At least Zac takes or over indulges in a substance that is legal – alcohol – unlike your rugby players who take steroids et al. Get over yourselves dipsticks. And keep haranguing NZ like you do, who would want to live in SA if your house has to come with moat, machine guns, barbed wire, electronic surveillance etc etc etc. Jeez must be a great place to live…NOT. And to the twit who tried to disparage the NZ dollar – your rand wouldnt be worth toilet paper – so go figure. Here in the paradise of NZ we a bathing in the after glow of the RWC and enjoy to constant harping coming out of SA…I think the whole nation there needs prozac…
15 Nov 2011, 20:41 pm
oh go away ! ! feeble creature.
15 Nov 2011, 20:55 pm
@JohnPaul(JohnPaul)-115: You’re not the brightest Kiwi out there, are you?
15 Nov 2011, 21:30 pm
If you were a male and had to face NZ women on a daily basis you would also be on the turps. Most of them would be ugly even if they were blokes.
15 Nov 2011, 23:37 pm
@petoors(petoors)-118: those were blokes u slept with. u and zac need to lay off the booze
16 Nov 2011, 00:56 am
@JohnPaul(JohnPaul)-115:
Go f uk some sheep or something you one eye piece of sheepturd. Take a good look at your ownback yard and it ain’t clean.
*** starved drunen louts honing in on inocent ladies out for a run, probably also on P or roids………….
Is the after glow a reflection on the loss you made or the drunks who were born?
16 Nov 2011, 00:59 am
drunken
16 Nov 2011, 01:49 am
@JohnPaul(JohnPaul)-115:
Yup, you got it bro. In the past 12 months, John Mitchell gets stabbed in his home, Bees Roux beats a policeman to death, is convicted of culpable homicide but doesnt even go to prison and now Solly is murdered whilst trying to enjoy a quiet bear at a local tavern……. yet the self-deluded Bokke fanboys want to write disparaging comments about NZ as if their $hit dont stink. Sheeesh, Zacs an idiot, but a drunk and lewd rugby boofhead is always preferable to a stabbed, murdered or cop killing rugby player/coach.
16 Nov 2011, 02:01 am
This is for Katman, Petoors, Whatever, Treehugger et al…wonderful and very intellectual comments people. I am inclined to agree with Nuk3Fr33k1w1…what a great place to live is SA…NOT. Yes we have idiots here who drink too much a la Zac and company but hey drunks are just that drunks. And WHATEVER you go wondering around your farm animals mate you may get lucky, what a sorry example of Bokke manhood you are…I dont think so….keep up the moaning people, it suits you. NZ is doing just fine thank you.
16 Nov 2011, 04:51 am
“A former All Black may seek diversion after being arrested on assault and drug charges.
The 45-year-old is charged with assault on a female, common assault, resisting police, possessing cannabis and possessing drug utensils.
His name has been suppressed, the Stuff website reported.
The man is likely to ask for police diversion, Judge Bruce Davidson was told.
Diversion allows charges to be withdrawn if offenders fulfil certain conditions.”
It seems that drinking/drugs, wife beating and being a thug have been part of the AB “culture” for a long time – Zac just following the example of those who went before him?
16 Nov 2011, 06:26 am
“Honest Brycie” pooping his pants on officiating in South Africa:
“In all honesty, I’m not going to go over there if there’s any personal threat or I have concerns about my safety because, in the end, it’s a job. I know that and also it’s just a sport so I’m not going to put myself at risk.”
Lawrence said he had thought about his performance in the quarter-final every day since the match and accepts he made errors.
“My quarter-final performance created a lot of negative reaction in South Africa, pretty hostile, very personal, very harsh,” he said. “Also, on the flipside of that, I got a lot of really strong positive support from rugby people in New Zealand and around the world who probably know me a little bit more than the people in South Africa and were feeling for me during that time.
“… I was disappointed with some aspects in my own performance that day after refereeing four really pretty strong games in pool play. I’m not blaming anyone for the quarter-final refereeing display apart from myself. I didn’t referee as well as I could.”
Lawrence said he recognised he would be punished for his performance.
“Look, there has been some pretty clear consequences from my quarter-final display,” he said. “I’m not going to be refereeing Six Nations next year.
“They can say that means I’m rested but, in reality, I accept that one of the consequences of my performance is that I’m not going to be doing Six Nations.”
Why does he keep “thinking” about his performance every day since the game? Guilty conscience perhaps.
16 Nov 2011, 08:51 am
@JohnPaul(JohnPaul)-123: Drunks are just drunks…so beating up a 60 year old and sexually harassing a lone woman is all good clean fun in your book? Says a lot….
16 Nov 2011, 10:30 am
@petoors(petoors)-125:
When you get death threats because of your supposed bias and/or incompetance, weird things like continually analysing your own job performance in minute detail might be a starter.
16 Nov 2011, 10:37 am
@Atreides(Atreides)-126:
Guildford was out of line.
If he thinks he has gotten away from Raro without a charge, he should remember he was still under NZ laws and charges may still come a calling..
Folk go to the Cook’s for a relaxing holiday, not to get embroiled in the outfall of his lack of character.
16 Nov 2011, 12:12 pm
@Brads(Brads)-128: Yea for sure. I’ve got no problem with somebody getting help or counselling for a problem. However, there should be punishment for this type of trangression first, then address the issue. It’s not right that someone walks off scot-free like that, whoever they may be, just because they are “high profile”
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