Arms Race (2014)
“It’s my round.
A couple of aunties up the back give me a nod but everyone else seems pakeha. The bloke behind the bar looks down at my tarred hands.
You one of the roading boys? he says. I’m Don.
Hey. I’m— Got any ID?
When I get back with the jugs there’s a couple of trampers sitting at the end of our table. A story comes on the TV about the Ruatoki police raids, all helicopters and black balaclavas and shouting.
Fucken rubbish, the first tramper says. Eight million bucks of... surveillance and they catch some guys shooting pigs in the hills.
More like shooting their mouths off in the pub, his mate says. Cops’ve been watching too many movies. They reckoned there’d be grenades and napalm, and all they got was three old rifles. Like there’d be Maori terrorist camps in New Zealand.
Taihoa puts down his beer and leans in close.MoreLess
A couple of aunties up the back give me a nod but everyone else seems pakeha. The bloke behind the bar looks down at my tarred hands.
You one of the roading boys? he says. I’m Don.
Hey. I’m— Got any ID?
When I get back with the jugs there’s a couple of trampers sitting at the end of our table. A story comes on the TV about the Ruatoki police raids, all helicopters and black balaclavas and shouting.
Fucken rubbish, the first tramper says. Eight million bucks of... surveillance and they catch some guys shooting pigs in the hills.
More like shooting their mouths off in the pub, his mate says. Cops’ve been watching too many movies. They reckoned there’d be grenades and napalm, and all they got was three old rifles. Like there’d be Maori terrorist camps in New Zealand.
Taihoa puts down his beer and leans in close.MoreLess
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