I recently was admitted to Tauranga Hospital for an aorta-bi-iliac aneurysm repair. On the morning of admittance I received a email saying 'I hope the operation is not successful, and that you die on the table.” Lovely, I thought.
On 7 April I received another email from the same guy 'Oh Bugger me I was hoping that you didn't make it through your operation...you sad old prick ... you better hope we don't meet in the street?”
So I took these emails to the Tauranga Police station at 2.30pm on Easter Monday and I was told to change my email address. Why should I? I told the duty policeman that I had blocked him from my emails. His reply was then you have solved the problem.
I have spent 23 years in the Royal New Zealand Navy and I meet up with an upstart policeman like that.
I know that the person sending me these emails is a drug addict, and just a waste of space. I have no doubt when he's arrested and spending time in gaol, he will have three meals a day, free health and dental care, a TV in his room.
I helped to give him his freedom.”

Peter Mitchell, Tauranga South.