An Auckland criminal has picked the wrong house to ditch their home detention bracelet - chucking it on the property where a National MP lives.
Kim Choe took to social media after finding the tampered ankle bracelet among rubbish dumped in a hedge outside her home.
The apparent monitoring breach was never going to go unnoticed - Choe's husband is National MP Chris Penk: a successful lawyer who is also the party's courts spokesman.
Penk is also a member of Parliament's justice select committee.
![National MP for Helensville Chris Penk. Photo / Derek Cheng](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/PJPFBOQSL7MGZLHPZD5B5YNGQY.jpg?auth=534a1aef2269c9e5349928e981ca02be3d00c3554522389d139f2c826f14ac6a&width=16&height=9&quality=70&smart=true)