American tourist killed in New Zealand

[Submitted by a guest writer]

Wrongful Death: Failure of the Government in its Duty to Warn of Fatal Dangers!

Another Avoidable Killing!

This time an American tourist was killed in New Zealand. Alan Paul Leger, a 57-year-old from Boston, just a name to the readers, but a real person to his family, alive and well just a few days ago, is now dead. Was he murdered, or did he die because the authorities failed to warn him of the dangers? Either way, one or more people are directly responsible for his death and they should be brought to account.

To add insult to injury because the victim was an American, and the New Zealanders don’t like “septic tanks” (Yanks) in their neck of the woods, New Zealand police declared: “The American tourist who fell to his death in the Mt Cook National Park yesterday was inexperienced in the alpine environment.”

Mountain Safety Council chair Ross Meder added: “Tourists often fail to realise weather conditions can change extremely quickly in New Zealand, much more so than in the Northern Hemisphere.”

Well, thanks for letting the deceased know. He would be sure to be careful next time!

Links to the death report:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=104916500
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4394988a11.html

Links to recent tourist fatalities in NZ:
New Zealand: A Tourist Deathtrap
Canadian Tourist Murdered?
Murdered in New Zealand in the Prime of Her Life

New Zealand: A Tourist Deathtrap

Welcome to New Zealand!
And how long will you be staying with us, ma’am?

You are twice more likely to be killed on New Zealand roads than in Germany

Four members of a Chinese family from Hong Kong, including a girl aged 10, were the latest victims of New Zealand Tourism. The only surviving member of the family, a 30-year-old woman, is in serious condition.
http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/new-zealand-tourism-claims-more-victims/
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10499553

And will you be playing New Zealand Roulette, or have you booked other games?

[Note: NZ government agencies have declined to provide the relevant stats on the numbers of assaults and murders of foreigners.]

A 25-year-old Korean national was killed on NZ State Highway 2 (Feb 17, 2008 ) http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405769a11.html

Two Koreans were injured in tourist bus collision. (Feb 17, 2008 )
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405812a11.html
Three seriously hurt in vicious Queenstown street attack: “It was a very serious assault,” police said. (Feb 17, 2008 )
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405769a11.html

A 57-year-old American tourist fell to his death after missing unmarked “path” in Mt Cook
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4394988a11.html

A British tourist killed in bus crash, fate of the other seriously injured tourists unknown
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4384845a11.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4386040a6009.html

Roads claim nine lives during weekend
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/080204/3/3ua9.html

One person is dead and two seriously injured in a tourist bus collision yesterday.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4354764a11.html

Crash raises road toll to 11 for January
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4342068a10.html

Tourist bus crashes with van, 1 dead.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4356238a6570.html

Three female Korean tourists, aged 18, 19, and 34, had their right arms amputated after the crash. Another passenger suffered a fractured eye socket.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4322877a11.html

Eight Chinese tourists were taken to hospital, one with serious injuries.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4240038a23955.html

West Coast bus crash injures 21 overseas tourists [with 10 receiving severe injuries such as fractured limbs.]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4273025a6047.html

One tourist was killed and Eight others are in a critical condition after a head-on crash in Waikato. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4342236a11.html

22 foreign tourists run for their lives after their bus catches fire
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10485349

A 46-year-old Malaysian woman was raped in Auckland
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10492627

See also:

• Canadian Tourist Murdered?
• Murdered in New Zealand in the Prime of Her Life

• “Lousy NZ drivers blamed for high death toll”
• 3rd Tourist Bus Gutted by Fire: “Lucky” Tourists Scape Death!

Road Death toll February 2008: Month-to-date (Land Transport New Zealand)

Road Death toll: Month-to-date (Land Transport New Zealand)
As at 18 Feb 2008 : 28 deaths
Same time last year: 10 deaths
[Data retrieved on Feb. 18, 2008 from the URL: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/toll.html]

Road Death toll: Month-to-date (Land Transport New Zealand)
As at 20 Feb 2008 : 27 deaths (!)
Same time last year: 14 deaths
[Data retrieved on Feb. 20, 2008 from the URL: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/toll.html]

[Caution: NZ govt. statistics ARE doctored! New Zealand is probably the only country in the world where the dead are statistically resurrected for aesthetic reasons!]

Road Deaths as at 02 May 2008: 425

Same time last year: 404

How many of the dead are tourists? We’ll never know!

How many tourists murdered, killed, “accidentally” lost their lives … in the last 12 months?

WE WILL NEVER KNOW! And that’s what makes NZ such a fascinating tourist deathtrap!

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Yet Another Victim of New Zealand Tourism

Murdered in New Zealand in the Prime of Her Life

[Submitted by a guest writer]

Karen Aim, 26, a Scottish tourist, was found in a pool of blood, caused by a serious head injury, on a street corner in Taupo, New Zealand. She spoke with the responding officers and gave her name. It’s not known whether her life could have been saved had the authorities acted professionally. Karen’s body will be flown to Scotland and then by boat to her home in Orkney Islands.

Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Karen Aim. Their tragic loss was unnecessary and preventable. New Zealand is culture of extreme violence; NZ Government and the tourism mafia [industry] must be held accountable for each and every incidents of murder, rape, kidnap, assault and aggravated robbery perpetrated by their citizens against the unsuspecting tourists who are lured to the country by false advertising. [See links below.]

Karen Aim

CASF Human Rights Team has previously asked the NZ Ministry of Justice and several other ministries for a list of foreigners who have been murdered or ‘accidentally’ killed in New Zealand in the past few years. Unfortunately, the New Zealand authorities declined to provide any information.

According to nztourmaps.com, a New Zealand tourism promotion company, about 779 overseas visitors were killed in New Zealand between 2001 to 2006. [Note: the figure provided may be a gross underestimate, though it still means overseas visitors are 7 times more likely to be killed in New Zealand than in Australia.]

Related Links:

You Want to Work in New Zealand?
Truth About ‘100% Pure New Zealand’ Advertising Campaign
Stop New Zealand Committing Eco-Terrorism!
Assault victim tells of terrifying ordeal
Increased violence in NZ: What are the tourists coming here for?

Tourist couple kidnapped at gunpoint, robbed, woman raped, husband assaulted .
Men guilty of kidnapping tourist
Skinheads jailed for beating tourist
Tourist abducted and robbed
Backpacker rapist sentenced to 7 years

Tourist abducted and robbed
German Tourist’s Murder was Preventable
English tourist’s campervan set on fire in the carpark
The two kidnappers who beat and raped the Dutch tourist only get 10 and 6 years
Father urges New Zealand pilot to face music over tourist’s death