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Avid Supporter Ready to Back Mooloos Till Cows Come Home CITY FINAL $1 RD extra 5c FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006 www.waikatotimes.co.nz Kiwi lifes TRAINED On the a beach TO comeback and a coffee KILL trail NEWS 11 ISSUES 7 GARDENING 15 Avid supporter ready to back Mooloos till cows come home Ohinewai farmer Bruce Caird is the He will have his truck as a float in the be a big positive for the Waikato,” Mr the stadium and start setting myself up,” country’s top rugby supporter. parade down Hamilton’s main street to- Melville said. he said. For years the fanatical Mooloo support-morrow before he and wife Kristine take Finals fever has also struck Hamilton Waikato Rugby Union marketing man- er has painted his cows in Waikato col-their place in the Wel Networks Stand in as Mooloo fans prepare to paint the city ager Pat Mellsop said fans had snapped ours to greet northern supporters headingWaikato Stadium, ready to make a din at red, yellow and black. up 23,000 tickets for the final. Only 2000 south for a game. the Air New Zealand Cup final between Hamilton retailer David’s Emporium on tickets, mostly in the green zone, were left So enthusiastic is Mr Caird that heWaikato and Wellington. Hood St has done a roaring trade in face but were expected to go today. deliberately farms belted galloway cowsDuring last week’s semifinal the paint, wigs and Waikato flags. Mellsop recommended fans found because he only has to add red and yellow Cairds reportedly upset Otago hooker An- At Champions of the World on Victoria their seats by 7pm. “Get to the ground paint inside the breed’s white centre ton Oliver with their Mooloo bells because St, Waikato jerseys, flags, jester hats and early, enjoy the entertainment.” stripe. Oliver could not hear the calls. Mooloo bells had been in high demand all Meanwhile Sir Edmund Hillary, who The paddock parties he hosts on hisMeanwhile, tomorrow can’t come fast week. yesterday received an honorary doctorate SH1 farm, which usually attract 70-80 enough for Waikato fan Laurie Melville. Waikato supporter Warren Allen — from Waikato University, wished the people on match days involving teams In recent times, the Hamilton man hasaka Possum — said his preparations for Waikato team well. “I think it’s going to north of Waikato, are legendary affairs. become a familiar figure in the Wel Net-tomorrow night’s final had gone well. He be a pretty tough game but Waikato has Mr Caird was today named the coun-works Stand. The 71-year-old has not has organised a truck to carry him in to- been playing very well. It will be a great try’s top supporter in an Air New Zea-missed a home game in four years. morrow’s 2pm Mooloo Parade. “I’ll proba- battle I think.” OLE OLE OLE: Bruce Caird with one of his painted cows at land-sponsored competition. “If the team can pull it off, it’s going to bly then go straight from the parade to — Aaron Leaman, Mary Anne Gill Ohinewai today. PICTURE: Kelly Schicker Kiwis Shut take idiocy awards out boy A New Zealand man who drove into a power pole after using dishwashing liquid for brake fluid has been honoured with a Darwin Award — given for idiocy. Darwin Awards recognise ‘‘individuals who ensure the long-term survival of our spe- cies by removing themselves racers, from the gene pool in a sub- limely idiotic fashion’’. Author Wendy Northcutt has gathered them into a book highlighting unintentional, fool- ish, bizarre, avoidable injuries or deaths. Three New Zealanders ap- pear in her latest book. Shane, the dishwashing liq- says cop HONOURED uid guy, did not kill himself so AGAIN: had to be content with a ‘‘noto- racers during an opera- Sir Edmund By Reon Suddaby rious’’ award, for those who do tion on Te Rapa Rd at Hillary received foolish harm to themselves. the start of the month. an honorary Banning parking and He used cheaper dishwash- Mr Berquist said po- doctorate from erecting fences along ing liquid instead of brake flu- lice and local businesses the Waikato Hamilton’s Te Rapa Rd is id. His brakes failed as he tried needed to co-operate to University at the solution to combating Founders to round a bend and his car boy racers, Te Rapa’s solve the problem. slammed into a power pole. “It is an issue we need Theatre new community constable yesterday. Compatriots Phil, and an un- says. to work together with, named fish factory worker, both it’s not solely a police Constable Craig PICTURE: won posthumous awards. Berquist starts next CRAIG BERQUIST: problem.” Phil jacked up his car and Racers the Bruce Mercer week and has made solv- Mr Berquist cited the placed a car battery under the priority. ing the area’s boy racer Te Rapa branch of jack for more height. The bat- problem a priority. Westpac as an example of a local tery collapsed, the jack toppled For years hundreds of boy rac- business trying to solve the prob- over, and the car crushed him. ers have gathered at night to lem by putting up a fence. The other award was won by drink, smoke and play music and Washworld manager Jeff Olsen a man who tried to fix a watch other young car enthusiasts said his company had huge prob- jammed walk-in ice maker at do “circuits” along Te Rapa Rd in lems cleaning up after the boy rac- the fish processing plant. their souped-up vehicles. ers. He disabled safety measures Mr Berquist said he was deter- “There’s broken glass and bro- so he could enter the machine mined to end the vandalism, and ken bottles everywhere,” he said. while it was running and clear the broken glass and rubbish left “They obviously use our facility the blockage. He suffered fatal behind by the boy racers. and that’s fine, but there’s always injuries. “The boy racer issue seems to be a minority who use it to do burn- Past award winners have in- foremost in the minds of a lot of outs and wheelies.” cluded terrorists who set their people on this side of the river. I Mr Olsen said Washworld was bombs on daylight saving time want to work with local businesses already putting up some fences to and delivered them on standard to sort it out,” Mr Berquist said. ward off the boy racers. time, blowing themselves up. He had sympathy for the busi- Ken Rose, owner-operator of — NZPA nesses on Te Rapa Rd which often Caltex Te Rapa and Te Rapa Muf- had to spend the first hour of their fler and Brakes, said he’d “had a day cleaning up the mess. gutsful” of the mess created by the Offbeat Mr Berquist wanted to get local boy racers and the damage they Sir Ed adds to mountain of accolades businesses to put up fences on did to his premises. Pope Benedict may have to their properties, to discourage boy “I arrive at work and there’s Sir Edmund Hillary yesterday re- had all come from other countries. outstanding achievements and have his ring tightened. racers from parking there. piss all over my showroom floor.” ceived yet another accolade to add to “To get an honorary doctorate here is qualities. According to Italian news media He said another possible tactic Both of Mr Rose’s businesses his mountain of awards — an honorary something special,” said Sir Edmund. Former Waikato University vice- reports, the papal ring slipped off his finger twice while he was was erecting “No parking” signs, had been attacked by vandals — a doctorate from Waikato University. Sir Edmund, who was born in Auck- chancellor Bryan Gould was also The 87-year-old captured interna- land, said he had spent a lot of time awarded an honorary doctorate and shaking hands with well-wishers which would give police more pow- glass panel in a door at Te Rapa as he left the Bentegodi tional attention and a knighthood in er when they tried to move the boy Muffler and Brakes had recently travelling around the Waikato and the Michael Hills, a recently retired senior stadium in Verona today. The racers along. been kicked in. Mr Rose said he 1953 as the first man to climb Mt Bay of Plenty. “I feel it’s a great honour lecturer in psychology, received the title faithful into whose palms the Mr Berquist also planned to and other businesses would sup- Everest, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. to be here, and I feel that it’s almost of honorary fellow. They joined more gold ring fell promptly gave it talk to Waikato road policing man- port Mr Berquist’s plans. “Receiving this so close to home ishome to me,” he said. than 300 students who graduated at a back each time. The ring is ager Inspector Leo Tooman about However some business owners something special,” Sir Edmund said. University vice-chancellor Roy ceremony at Hamilton’s Founders The- known as the ‘‘Fisherman’s holding more police operations in were worried action against the Sir Edmund said he had received Crawford said the award of honorary atre. — Tamara Penniket Ring’’ because it depicts St the area. boy racers would result in revenge several honorary doctorates but they doctorate acknowledged Sir Edmund’s See Twin power at graduation, page 2 Peter, the first pope, casting a Police seized 17 cars from boy attacks on their premises. net into the sea. A FAIRFAX MEDIA NEWSPAPER INSIDE: TV, WEATHER P12 BUSINESS P13,14 SPORT P25,26,28 FAMILY NOTICES P11 FULL INDEX P2.
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