'30 seconds of lunacy': Sports park damage could force night closure
"The drop-kicks who did this are likely to have brothers, sisters or cousins using this."
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'Abhorrent act': Anti-Semitic graffiti targets Tūpuna Maunga Authority chair
"The anti-Semitic and supremacist use of the Star of David is abhorrent."
Favona murder house defaced with gang slogan graffiti
The words 'Aroha Black Power' tagged on a house where a body was found last week.
Entitled hikers vandalise signs, ignore ban on closed kauri tracks
Fourteen people issued trespass notices over summer break.
Watch: NZ's dumbest criminals? Firestarters post social media video
Two boys tried to set the club grounds on fire, then uploaded the footage to Instagram.
It's jail or $100k fine: Visitors vandalising Moeraki boulders
People are carving their names and leaving rubbish all over the beach.
'Absolutely disgusting': Mourner upset over desecration of children's burial site
Damaged mementos, shredded flowers and broken crosses strewn across the site.
'Have respect for a kid's grave': Baby's grave vandalised
An Auckland mother was upset and angry to find her baby daughter's gravesite vandalised.
Video of aftermath: Police investigating Taupō house vandalism
Occupants of the house shared a video showing smashed windows, and graffiti on the wall.
James Cook statue vandalised with the words 'Thief Pakeha'
A Captain James Cook statue that has been vandalised in Gisborne has controversy online.
Wellington's water whirler back on waterfront
Sculpture made famous by a bumbling climber has been returned to waterfront.
Watch: Papatoetoe couple give drunk man a lesson in manners
The man can be seen picking up the bins as the couple tells him to.
Foul play on the fairway: Vandals suspected of sabotaging golf course
Putting surfaces throughout the 18-hole course have been damaged.
Christchurch tribute graffiti removal on train cost taxpayers $3000
It may have had a message of support, but AT has had to remove graffiti from a train.
Ugly attacks mar schoolboy athletic competition
A school statue and sign has been left covered in graffiti.
Kids who defaced marae caught 'orange'-handed
Young vandals have been forced to get down on their hands and knees to scrub up the mess.
'Shocked and disappointed': Vandals attack coastguard vehicles
Staff responding to boatie in trouble arrive to find damaged vehicles.
Housing NZ tenant ordered to pay $5200 for damage
Woman who ripped up HNZ home carpets and painted floor pink forced to pay $5200.
South Africans shocked at racial tagging on house
Couple just sold their home when they found the words "Sth African C***" on property.
'It's senseless': Napier petrol pump vandal blasted
Petrol pump consoles and keypads out of action after vandalism.
Ten years in Thai jail for tourist grafitti in Chiang Mai
A Canadian and British man were caught spray-painting on the monument in Chiang Mai.
Empty Housing NZ home's $20,000 security
A newly-built Housing New Zealand house racked up thousands of dollars in security costs.
Check out the views! But who took a chainsaw to the trees?
A 20 metre pine has been destroyed and a pohutukawa attacked as a sea view beckons.
Vandals block popular Auckland cycleway
Warning to cyclists after dangerous barrier of small rocks placed across cycleway.
Driver guilty of carving up rugby league team's fields
Driver's drunken doughnuts forced Hornby Panthers to play their games elsewhere.
Vandals plague crash site where Auckland teens were killed
Two fires were lit, mud was thrown on windows and a nearby office was broken into.
'Mongrel scum': Footy fans to be red-carded from waterfront bar
Owner Leo Molloy is wild after his venue was damaged in the opening State of Origin clash.
Man who sprayed acid on EQC vehicles avoids jail
Frustrated quake claimant splashed acid on EQC cars
Carnage at cemetery after headstones smashed
A cemetery lies in pieces after a heartbreaking attack on 16 headstones at the weekend.
EQC attacker finds cash to avoid jail
EQC claimant admitted battles but denied acid attack.
Disgruntled judge blasts EQC acid attacker
Raymond Carr was found guilty of squirting acid over EQC cars
Man goes on window-smashing spree - then dobs himself in
Was it remorse? The man's actions were certainly unusual.
Shock attack: Masked vandals wearing GoPros tag train
Security officers prevent train passengers from confronting taggers.
Guilty verdict in EQC acid attack case
Quake claimant guilty of spraying acid over EQC cars