RANGIORA WOMAN RINGS 111 ON COURIER FOR BEING "TOO NICE"
Suspect smiled, said please, and put the parcel on the dry side of the porch. Police attended.
A Rangiora woman dialled 111 on Tuesday afternoon after a courier driver behaved, in her words, "far too pleasant to be above board".
The resident, Coral Whitcombe of High Street, said the man knocked twice, waited, said her name, and put the parcel under the eaves so the nor'wester wouldn't get it. "My Gerald never trusted a bloke who smiled before noon," she told The Daily Yarn. "He had a lanyard. Anyone can get a lanyard. My son's girlfriend has three."
Mrs Whitcombe said the courier also complimented her hydrangeas, which she found suspicious, and asked if she wanted the box brought inside. She declined and shut the door on him. "Firmly. I'm not an animal."
A neighbour, Lynette Pringle, said the same driver had been just as civil to her earlier in the round. "Said hello to the dog by name. We've never met him. The dog hasn't either."
Constable Pearce attended from Rangiora station, inspected the parcel — a pair of orthopaedic slippers — and told Mrs Whitcombe that being polite was not, at this stage, an offence under the Crimes Act. He noted the matter on file anyway.
The courier has finished his run. Mrs Whitcombe is keeping the slippers but says she'll be watching the tracking number "like a hawk".
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Reader Letters
Garry (Halswell)
Wouldn't have happened in '94. We had standards back then, not this furniture nonsense.
ropeable_dave
mate '94 was thirty years ago what are you on about
MumOf3_Riccarton
Honestly fair enough. Council inorganic is Thursday and my berm is a war zone anyway.
Margaret_F
Gerald would have sorted it with one phone call to the council.
BarryBishopdale
Bloody typical. And while we are at it, the council has been useless since 1987. Cyclists probably love this.
Margaret_F
Reminds me of Gerald. He would have had opinions about the pallet, I can tell you that.
couchgremlin
Lol
long_winded_garry
I remember when the whole street used to argue about whose turn it was to mow the berm and now we cannot even agree on a mattress without someone invoking the Resource Management Act for forty minutes straight like it is a royal commission.