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, 09:58 am
Fair enough.
Even a conviction of assault would not compare to the damage he has already done to his reputation.
If the people affected are happy to accept an apolgy, where do you go with this other and brand the man for being an idiot.
15 Nov 2011, 10:01 am
What happened to his clothes>
15 Nov 2011, 10:12 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-2:
I don’t know, sold them so he could buy more booze?
15 Nov 2011, 10:21 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-2:
Where were you on the night?
15 Nov 2011, 10:26 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-4:
lol
15 Nov 2011, 10:33 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-2:
If the Cops picked any of us up:
Utterly drunk,
bleeding,
naked,
having assaulted 2 restaurant patrons,
having sexually harrassed a female jogger,
then attempting to escape custody.
What would any of us expect?
Man these Cops in the Cooks are cool Guys.
and so drunk we
15 Nov 2011, 10:41 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-4:
Chasing Corey?
See Jane run.
15 Nov 2011, 10:50 am
Lucky not to be hit with a £25k fine, that would be quite a few squillion million Kiwi dollars
15 Nov 2011, 10:56 am
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-8:
15 Nov 2011, 11:04 am
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-8:
That would be
NZ$ 51,407
or
321,827 South African Rands.
But make the most of it, by the time you pull the Greeks, Iberians and Italians out of the dug heap,
yours will be on par with the rand.
15 Nov 2011, 11:05 am
@Gunther(gunther)-9:
what’s so funny Gunna,
Your currency is on a par with dunny paper.
8)
15 Nov 2011, 11:07 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-10:
I never realised you were an economist.
I thought you were a secuirty guard?
15 Nov 2011, 11:07 am
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-8:
15 Nov 2011, 11:10 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-11:
Indeed that’s what you pongolanders always tell us.
nice to see you some of getting your own muti back.
15 Nov 2011, 11:14 am
I think what helped him is that he pleaded guildford to all charges.
15 Nov 2011, 11:16 am
Was he kalgut on the scooter as well
can just picture it. Dont know why they bothered writing about the athlete being leered at, men leer at women all the time, drunk or sober. She should have have pushed him off the scooter if he was at any stage riding next to her making remarks, very easy to push over a very drunk person, specially with her being athletic.
15 Nov 2011, 11:16 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-11: Perhaps, but here in god’s country that dunny paper can actually buy you stuff. Exchange rate only matters when we hop off to NZ for a World Cup. And heaven knows that won’t happen again soon.
15 Nov 2011, 11:23 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-11:
Hang on are we talking double or triple ply paper?
15 Nov 2011, 11:24 am
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-16:
I think the Cook Island Police should have thrown Zak in the slammer until his Hearing.
Trouble is,
I doubt the Cook Islands have a jail.
15 Nov 2011, 11:25 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-17:
Well lucky us its not going to happen in the near future, its going to take us years to catch all these South African overstayers here in NZ.
Give them a credit card and they just dissapear.
15 Nov 2011, 11:25 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-18:
single…………………………………….recycled.
8)
15 Nov 2011, 11:28 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-10:
So my house cost about 2.5 million rand??
lol
15 Nov 2011, 11:30 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-20: So how is that IRB bail-out plan shaping up then? You should just about be solvent in 2064, when the next WC heads your way.
15 Nov 2011, 11:32 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-22:
that’s not much to shout about.
15 Nov 2011, 11:34 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-17:
It may not happen overnight,
It may not happen soon,
But in the fullness of time,
it will happen.
The tentacles of our influence far outweigh our actual significance.
15 Nov 2011, 11:36 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-22: That’s about a three bedroom townhouse in a Tuscan complex in D’urbanville (excluding water feature).
15 Nov 2011, 11:38 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-25: “The tentacles of our influence”
That’s just highfalutin kiwispeak for “our crooked refs”.
15 Nov 2011, 11:38 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-26:
he should have enough money left for a hyundai and some nice leather furniture.
15 Nov 2011, 11:42 am
Where did all of this happen, on Crook Island?
Kelly sounds upset but not surprised; she expected the All Black to behave like that.
It seems that the 60 year old patron gave him a good hiding. Even senior citizens can beat up All Blacks.
15 Nov 2011, 11:47 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-26:
Iron bars on all the windows included?
15 Nov 2011, 11:52 am
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-29:
Yip even a 60 year Cook Islander can give an AB a good hiding.
They have 300 registered Senior Rugby Players in their whole Country.
And still beat England in the Wellington 7′s a few years ago.
The Cooks is a great little Island Paradise.’
Maybe the best.
15 Nov 2011, 11:52 am
Nothing is straight in New Zealand.
I mean here is a young guy, looks decent but does these abominal acts in his spare time.
Did he perhaps have a fight with the 65 yr old Ted? If so then it seems Ted sorted him out. Ted prolly heatbutted him.
15 Nov 2011, 11:52 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-26:
Strange. You know how we have internet over here, i just did a house search in SA, in durbanville yet it seems you are talking rubbish.
Damn i could buy a damn good house for 2.5 million rand. Come complete with crocodile filled moat, 2 towers with machine guns, fully barbed wired 16 foot fence.
15 Nov 2011, 11:53 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-30:
that depends.
does your mate have anything worth stealing?
15 Nov 2011, 11:57 am
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-19: Over night yes, until he had sobered up. He is after all not a criminal just a belligerent drunk.
If he had a choice, i am sure he would have chosen a bit of jail time instead of his reputation and career now in ruins.
15 Nov 2011, 12:01 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-34:
Katman was espousing what 2.5 million Rand could buy in some dughole in SA.
I was merely asking about added features for the 2.5 trillion you might lay out.
No one has moved in yet,
there is nothing to steal ( I think).
15 Nov 2011, 12:03 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-33: Our machine guns have to shoot those little sacks things now, hurts like hell, and barb wire is so out, its now electrified razor wire , but the machine gun has made a big come back since Zuma sung bring me my mshimiwami, used to be land mines around the property with grenades booby trapping the barb wire fence, get with the times
15 Nov 2011, 12:06 pm
R2.5 mil would buy you an average house with swimming pool in an average neighborhood.
15 Nov 2011, 12:07 pm
@The Gloater – formerly cane(cane)-36:
don’t worry caner.
we all know exactly what you were saying.
no confusion here.
15 Nov 2011, 12:08 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-35:
This is not the first time for Zac.
If you had been in that Restuarant, dining with your family…………………………………………would you be so understanding?
I agree the boy needs help.
I agree the boy would have chosen “Time” over Public Ridicule.
But Treeman, but enough is enough.
This in US terms, is strike 3.
15 Nov 2011, 12:11 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-37:
lol
I live in NZ, we are behind the times when it comes to arming your house.
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-38:
5 bedrooms,3 bathrooms,3 reception rooms, 2 garages and a pool next to schools and a throw stone away from 5 prisons, sounds like a bargain to me.
15 Nov 2011, 12:12 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-41:
thats a “stones throw away”
15 Nov 2011, 12:17 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-41:
You may be behind times but you are certainly a leader in the art and science of cheating.
Reflect on that.
Now be your predictable self and try to deny that.
15 Nov 2011, 12:20 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-43:
You may be behind times but you are certainly a leader in the art and science of whinging
Reflect on that.
Now be your predictable self and try to deny that.
15 Nov 2011, 12:21 pm
Very sad story,I hope this kid get’s help before this disease destroys him.
15 Nov 2011, 12:21 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-43:
Deny what??
An opinion?
Mate its your opinion and thats all it is.
Time to get back in your rocking chair with your blanket and have a cuppa.
15 Nov 2011, 12:22 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-45:
spot on fern
Lets hope it does not get the better of him.
What bothers me is that would he have asked for help if he didnt get caught?
15 Nov 2011, 12:23 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-45:
That may well be the most human post you ever made fernly.
15 Nov 2011, 12:25 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-41:
Hurricane,
You just keep getting better and better.
8)
15 Nov 2011, 12:26 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-7:
Haha he Jane you Tarzan (after a few whiskies)…
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