Target filming angers tradesman

A Tauranga electrician is furious after being filmed by hidden cameras at a Papamoa house by television show Target, hosted by Jeanette Thomas, and has taken his fight online.
The electrician, who spoke on condition he was not named, was called to the Range Rd property on Wednesday to put a power point in a bedroom.
After he arrived at the house, the client said she had to go to work. The electrician started the job but quickly suspected something was out of the ordinary when he noticed a diary lying open next to where he was working, bikinis on the bed, and photographs of women.
"When I saw cables not usually in a house I thought it was suspicious."
He then spotted a hidden camera in a smoke alarm. Shaken and upset, the man left the house and rang his partner and his lawyer.
The lawyer advised him to leave the job, so he did.
He phoned the "client" to let her know he was unable to finish the job and that there would be no charge for the work.
"I toyed with finishing the job, but I thought no, these guys are wasting my time."
"I didn't let on I found out, but I did wave at the camera."
The man described the show as immoral and "entrapment".
"You are in a place just doing your job, and someone is setting up you and other people.
"They are putting big carrots in front of you, they are enticing you to do something you wouldn't normally do. They were making it easy for you to do something.
"Then they would catch you, and it's all over then."
The man said the fact he did nothing wrong and would likely have been portrayed favourably was "beside the point".
"You watch the programme, and they will pick up on everything.
"I could come across as an electrician who just went in, made a hole and left, and didn't finish the job. That could happen.
"It freaked me out."
The electrician and his partner had since shared the address of the house on Facebook, and Twitter users are spreading the word.
The electrician later watched the latest episode of Target online, and found the show, which tested cleaners, had been filmed in the same house at 269 Range Rd.
The house is understood to have been used in at least three undercover stories.
The Bay of Plenty Times Weekend spoke to a Tauranga furniture removal company which was also caught on camera by Target this week.
The business owner said the job was strange from the beginning, the client left the movers to pack up the house and money had been left lying around.
As they left the job, a neighbour told the worker it was a Target set-up. He wrote "TV3 Target" on the receipt, but was not bothered by what had happened, the business owner said.
He knew he "did everything right".
The electrician's partner said by leaving props lying around the house, Target had gone too far.
"It's one thing to video your granny's flat because someone is stealing money. It's another one to set it up as a honeypot. It's immoral and unethical.
"We are not angry because we didn't do the job right, or because we would have done something dodgy. He was pretty quick to figure out it was a Target house.
"His credibility could be on the line." Target producer Simon Roy said each house used was "a normal functioning house where a normal everyday situation is put into place".
"People have clothes horses in their houses, people have alcohol in their houses, people have diaries in their houses.
"We don't do anything that doesn't happen in normal households. There's a misconception we go through hundreds to find dodgy people, that isn't fact."
Mr Roy refused to speak specifically on the electrician's claim, saying he had not had any contact from a Bay of Plenty electrician.