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Angry farmer confronts burnout teens with tractor, metal pole

Otago Daily Times Online News·Saturday, 2 May 2026·about 1 month ago
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By Belinda Feek, Open Justice reporter After a series of burnouts, toots and taunts, a carload of young people turned up to a farmer's property for a fourth time, but this time he surprised them with his tractor. Durk De Boer raised the tractor's bucket towards the bonnet of the bright yellow Toyota 4WD before getting off and marching angrily up to them, armed with a metal pole. What followed next was disputed in court - the teen driver said he was assaulted and only there to "look at the lasers", while the farmer said he was simply defending his property. But a judge ruled in De Boer's favour, and said the teens told lies and were deliberately being a nuisance that night. "They were enticing a reaction, they wanted a reaction, and they got a reaction," Judge Philip Crayton said when reading out his reserved decision recently. He ruled that the reaction wasn't an assault but reasonable force to stop the teens from trespassing on his Waikato property on the night of November 2, 2023.…

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