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Tourist loses it all By NATALIE BRITTAN
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UST three weeks into her stay a young tourist has had the possessions she holds most dear stolen. Michaela McCann arrived in New Zealand from Northern Ireland for the first time four weeks ago for a year’s working holiday. Miss McCann had been in Australia two months prior and had secured a job as an occupational therapist in East Tamaki. Last Wednesday she decided to go for a run at Barry Curtis Park on her way home from work just after 5pm. The Whitford resident had been for the fun runs held at the park on Sat-
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urdays before and did not think it was unsafe. She left an iPad, and a branded handbag and purse containing important personal items such as her passport and credit cards in the car, and casually threw a hoodie over the bag before locking the company car and taking the keys with her. “I would never usually do something like that but I wanted to get a run down before it got too dark because the park is not well lit,” Miss McCann told the Times. “I just didn’t think about putting [the things] in my boot – it was a momentary lapse.” In under half an hour, she returned and found the window of the white
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Hyundai hatchback smashed and all her valuables gone. She says a young couple who had been in the vicinity for around 20 minutes were quite shocked to find out that a break-in had happened in such a narrow window. Miss McCann could not put a dollar value on her possessions which were mostly gifts. Her Radley handbag was a gift from her boyfriend’s parents last Christmas, a pink Ted Baker purse was from her sister, and the iPad was from her mother two Christmases ago. Miss McCann had been using the device to navigate her way in Auckland and did not have a New Zealand number at the time.
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Although it’s not the welcome one hopes for, Miss McCann says it hasn’t left a sour impression of locals. “Up until that point I had met such fantastic New Zealanders. “It’s not going to ruin my time in New Zealand or make me cast judgement over the rest of New Zealanders but it’s just really unfortunate and I guess it could happen anywhere in the world.” Miss McCann’s ordeal comes in light of police’s recent crackdown on vehicle crime with the Care, Carry, Keep campaign as well as community organisation Botany Crime Watch Patrol’s efforts to remind the public to stay vigilant.
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