http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/emergency/teenage-boy-killed-in-matata-hunting-accident/
Newstalk ZB Staff , Emergency Sunday, 10 May 2015,
Updated 2.51pm: A 16-year-old boy is dead after a hunting incident near Whakatane this morning.
Bay of Plenty Police District Command Centre’s Sergeant Dennis Murphy says police were alerted to the incident around 8 eight o’clock.
“A 16 year old male was duck hunting, and while hunting a firearm was discharged. As a result of that he is now unfortunately deceased.” [Imagine, a firearm discharging while hunting…]
Whakatane CIB are investigating the death at Matata but are treating it as a hunting incident.
The boy was one of three teenagers duck shooting at Greig Road today.
He died at the scene.
Exposing the Big Game 
I’m always glad to hear about some drunken senile psychopath falling to their death out of a hunting blind, but still feel sad about the hundreds of victims they left in their murderous wake over decades. Much better when their killing career is cut short at a young age. Thanks for the uplifting news!
It’s bad enough when a 16 year old loses their life to cancer or car accident….. but this was 100% avoidable!!!
Well at least it didn’t happen on Mother’s Day!
Very sad.
Really? I identified more with the sentiments expressed by bythewindsailor.
I don’t care for hatefulness. Nor do I take pleasure in the death of any being, even a killer of animals.
I don’t have a jot of sympathy for anyone who is a hunter. I am always glad when they are gone-one way or the other-preferably when they are young and before they tally up the body count.
I have seen too many creeps here blow away beautiful birds-scores of peacocks some loudmouth neighbor shot from his porch and the animal control officers saying it was his right to kill. So as I picked up dead bodies as this man laughed his head off you can bet that I wished this man dead and laying belly up on the verge of the street like all the beautiful animals he had so cruelly done in. Not all the animals died quickly-they were maimed by pellet shot and had broken legs. We spent days trying to capture and relocate as many as we could to another acreage and saved about twenty-five from gunshot. I would have been absolutely joyous to get this evil one out of our neighborhood for good. So really small farm…take your namby-pamby niceness elsewhere.
Agreed and seconded!
Guess the firearm just discharged in the wrong direction.