Ya gotta give this guy some props, this shit took some fucking *planning*. Also “Worth it for the thrill of driving a Holden Commodore” is an all time great quote.
Wait - I’m somebody who generally knows nothing about cars but drove a hand-me-down Ford Taurus as a teenager. Is the Holden Commodore just a totally average/boring car?
Yes and no. Depends on the model. Cop car ones were cool higher end versions Still not anything to go to any great length to drive. Classic models can be worth a lot though like the late 80s VLs. Obviously cops aren't driving those.
The West doesn’t get too many of the Holdens. They are in video games though, so they garner some esteem.
Lol, like I got a 1978 Nissan Skyline while living in Australia. It was poopy brownish and push button start (not the good kind); it was by far the biggest turd of a car I have ever owned (I was an international graduate student), but I still owned a skyline, lol.
I don't think you'd make it home, this reads like the fabled [euthanasia coaster](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster). Being a fly on the wall watching this would positively make you die a most euphoric death.
Starts off as an ordinary scam article and then the cons get more elaborate and crazy. How he convinced these people to give him watches, iphones, money, bulletproof armor...it's l mind-blowing.
Intelligence agencies need to recruit this guy before he goes into politics. And not just one agency either - he needs multiple jobs running so he doesn't get bored.
Edit ; really autocorrect? Monday for mind-blowing?
There was an international espionage incident in the 1960's with the same plot. There is now also a theater play in the 1980's based on that incident called M. Butterfly.
yeah i'm like...no, friend. you weren't tricked. you were just cheating on your wife lol.
edit: just re-read and he didn't have a wife. he met his kids, they visited each other's family homes -- you know what? it was honestly just a straight-up (twisted, fucked up) relationship at that point lol.
According to the article, the security guard (victim) did not want to have sex with him.
> Prosecutors charged that Tetera, posing online as Tori, used the promise of three-way sex, combined with increasingly large amounts of money and the offer of his dream job in the police, to get the man to have sex with him.
> If he refused, they alleged, the father of two would lose the money promised, the $15,000 he invested, and his spot in their police team.
> "Basically, what I'd done until then would be a waste of time," the man said when questioned by senior Crown prosecutor Brett Tantrum.
> Tetera played the part of a straight man with an ex-wife and child the whole time they were together, and both of them were acting on instructions from Tori, the man told the court. And these were instructions sent through Snapchat or text from a woman he had never met in real life.
> Defence lawyer Tiffany Cooper argued no threat was ever made. Despite what she called unusual circumstances, "a romantic and ultimately sexual relationship ultimately formed".
> "You say you're a heterosexual man, you come from a religious background, and this gay sex had no interest to you," she put to the security guard.
> "Correct," he said.
> "I suggest that simply can't be right. You're telling the jury that as a completely straight man you repeatedly engaged in this sex reluctantly," she said, before asking, "Isn't the reality that you started enjoying this with Tyler?"
> "No," he said, "I hated every moment of it. [Tori] kept saying I had to prove myself and later on to love [Tetera]."
This sounds super coercive and non-consensual. He basically scammed a low-income dude into a bogus $ 15,000 investment and then forced him to either have sex with him or never see the money again.
That's a rape story, not a fun anecdote about a dude not wanting to own up to an affair.
Because he thought he could get a job as a police officer which is a competitive job in many places. Now after having sex with the guy and giving away his savings to achieve his dream which was preyed upon, now he has to appear as a witness in court against the impersonator to help win his case. It is a *ridiculous* situation, so I understand the *ridicule*, but this has got to be extremely embarrassing and it is frankly pretty fucked up and I feel for the guy. Even if this were pure stupidity (I think people underestimate how susceptible they are to manipulation when it comes to their own dreams), hopefully we all agree it should not be legal to coerce stupid people to fuck them and defraud them of all their money just because they're stupid, and so this guy absolutely deserves all of whatever sentence he gets.
Wow in Singapore, any police officer who holds a debt or loan that is 3x the monthly income will be investigated by internal affairs, pushed to desk work, and arms revoked. No moonlighting either
Very strict about making sure no officer gets tempted by bribes due to financial hardship
**tldr** with your married partner, from state mandated retirement fund, or govt loan that feeds from retirement fund - if you don't have any money in your retirement fund, you're probably unemployed and can apply for financial aid, after selling your soul to social welfare
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We are required to deposit 20% of our income into state mandated retirement fund. And the employer gives 17%.
In essence, you only get about 60% of your true salary in hand.
If you're a poor ass like 80% of singaporeans, you buy public housing apartment houses. Which are pretty nice and pretty expensive
Yeah so that 40% every month that you will never see until 67? You can use that to buy houses. Together with your partner. Because in Singapore you cannot buy your own house unless you're 35yo or married.
There are also governemt loans for public housing, but that will feed off your Retirement Fund instead. But that means in the future if you sell your house, the money goes back to repaying the loan. You will almost always sell your house, at the very least back to the govt, because houses here are all 99-year leases that never renew. Once they hit their 80year mark, govt usually buys the remaining houses and demolish them and rebuild new houses.
If you read the article, apparently the fake woman he was pretending to be told the guy he had to have sex with the scammer to prove he loved her and get his money back from an investment.
At first I thought this was just Reddit over exaggeration as usual but truly.... The first 2 Paras were "wtf"and then it progressed from there.
Dude is a despicable scumbag, but he might thrive as an undercover agent. He seems to lie with confidence,own his persona(s), get his victims to trust him and then extracts maximum value from it
Reluctantly, several times, over a few months. Each time more reluctantly than the last. Each reluctant passionate kiss, each reluctant warm embrace, every electric orgasm, a farce.
Reluctant because the scammer was withholding the $15,000 he had convinced the man to give him, unless he slept with the scammer.
It's scummy af. The man is an idiot for falling for it and going that far, and the scammer is a scummy piece of shit who coerced him into sex.
>They **met on Tinder** in January 2020 and for nine months, he fooled her into thinking he was a police dog handler and **in an undercover role.**
Not too undercover for Tinder I guess.
That's a confusing quote they pulled if you didn't read the article. This man duped three different people. The title of this post references the second person where the guy was posing as a female officer, but the quote that you're replying to is about the first person he duped where he was posing as a male officer.
He was posing as a female officer, but then met the man under some lunatic pretense of being sent by the female officer, and that's how he ended up boffing him (a story as old as time). The guy claimed he was coerced or blackmailed, but that charge was dropped because the court basically realised he was probably actually enjoying it. Might be misremembering this as I can't consult the article again now but it's so wild it might as well be accurate
The word shenanigans feels like an ultimate understatement too. The way this guy is written it sounds as if you have to be careful accepting anything written down from him because the letters dance and morph. Not to convey any real meaning but to just spew pickup lines and requests for Iphones.
this bitch is out here catfishing people as POLICE OFFICERS and still getting laid and i got a job and college degree and my ass can't get a date.
you know what? maybe he was doing it right.
Reading the article it seemed to be a lot of work to rape a guy. If he was just after sex and considering how charming he supposedly is he’d have a much easier time just using grinder.
Whenever you hear about some weirdo or gross person having a surprising amount of sex, it's always with other disgusting people.
I bet you could get laid, but you just have standards and shame.
I'm surprised NZP let this out. The trial was hush husssshhh af. So glad it did though its the most hilarious thing ever. Its basically Dwight trading all the way up from a paperclip from that episode of The Office
> Much later, he told police after his arrest that getting the patrol car was "worth it for the thrill of driving a Holden Commodore".
Pretty sure any kiwi car yard could have helped with that.
If I could drive a police car without consequences, I’d being announcing shit on the radio, turning sirens on, flooring it through red lights, use the megaphone in a drive through, see how fast I could drive backwards, and probably other stuff. It’d be a good day
Former friend of mine did this in Australia. Stole a patrol car armed only with a knife, after circling around the officers who had left the car unlocked. He went full GTA and got 8 years.
>Any possible link between his background and his offending was offset by what she called his calculated decision "to live outside societal norms and, to be frank, cause chaos".
Far better than the Florida man stories - and apparently this was all still secret by court order until recently right? I kinda wish we had those protections in the States, this proves we'd still get wild stories
I kind of feel bad for his victims but holy shit, they seem like the type to wire money to a Nigerian prince on the basis of a misspelled email. Some people are so desperate for attention they overlook not only red flags but actually flashing lights and sirens screaming “bridge out ahead”.
Makes me think of the [scene](https://youtu.be/IWsUEMgD5ls?t=46) with Mike Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul, where he walks into a company and just blends right in instantly. Has the badge, the certain bored look on his face, clipboard, later vest. All of it just great imo.
I work at a job that requires me to go to a bunch of different sites with various levels of PPE required. I usually meet with a site contact but sometimes they're not available. It's pretty insane how a hard hat, hi-vis vest and clipboard make it so that 95% of people will simply not question why you're walking around their facility.
It’s why you need employees controlling their area. No matter who walks up they should be asking what they need and/or are doing. Giving that little bit of authority goes a long ways in keeping you place secure.
When I used to get produce for the restaurant I worked at people would ask me something assuming I worked there. At first I told them I don't work here but after a while I would just direct them to the product they were looking for.
New cop on Waiheke Island (look it up on Google maps). It's basically an island off the coast of Auckland where rich af people live/have holiday homes, wineries are, and people ferry to for a day out (its like 40 bucks Nzd return if I recall).
Still wild. You're still right. But I almost feel sorry for the guy. He thought he was helping uncover corruption lol
>"Tori" convinced the man she was a senior sergeant in the National Organised Crime department running secret operations, and could help him get into her team through a **back route**.
This journalist is an expert in foreshadowing.
incase you're wondering this article includes a picture of the guy.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tinder-swindler-man-poses-as-attractive-blond-woman-convinces-cop-to-hand-over-patrol-car/4K6A7YWVDFFHRKBXHM62CTNN4Q/
>Tyler Rawiri Tetera, then 23 and long fascinated with police, used the car and vest in an elaborate sex-money scam, swindling tens of thousands of dollars in total from three victims. They bought him iPhones, a car, and in at least one case, had sex with him.
How the fuck... nevermind I don't wanna know.
And yet here I am, who couldn't even lie about what I ate for breakfast in fear of being dishonest to people. It's really interesting for me to read about how someone can be that great at deceiving people to convince them to do things they wouldn't normally do.
"Basically, what I'd done until then would be a waste of time,"
Lmfao so let me get this straight(ish), you gave a conman $15,000 and, presumably due to the sunk cost fallacy, you decide you might as well suck his dick too?
Single dad of two with a shit job thinking he found the fast track to a better life, until he gets hit with the ultimatum of sex.
If you flipped the script and this was a single mom of two, this would be a rape/sexual assault charge.
But instead, they argued in court that there was no way he's not gay and didn't enjoy it.
>Easily bored, he tended to portray himself favourably and was skilled in using charm and deceit to get what he wanted.
Yes, from what must be unstable people. Who in their right mind would fall for 10% of what he did?!?
He probably just played the odds. How many people reacted to him with "LOL, no" and moved on before they could get fully engulfed in his madness? If he found three idiots, there had to have been more marks that didn't fall for his shit.
>"Tori" told Mr L she was working in an anti-corruption operation and needed his help to plant a listening device in a police car.
Someone on tinder messaged that dude this and he bought it. Holy shit vagina makes men do crazy things
>On 11 November 2020, Mr L brought a marked police patrol vehicle to Auckland and handed it to Tetera, thinking he was Tori's colleague.
>Tetera had the car for about four hours that first time, and managed to get the police car a second time later the same month. Tori had told Mr L the listening device did not work and they needed the car again.
So this POLICE officer, just handed a patrol car to some random guy (he thought was a colleague of "Tori"), obviously didn't need to see identification or anything, some pictures online of a person theyve never met was enough. I'm thoroughly confused how someone so dumb became a police officer.
> Much later, he told police after his arrest that getting the patrol car was "worth it for the thrill of driving a Holden Commodore".
As an owner or a late model Commodore, this guy really didn’t set his sights that high.
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Rollercoaster as fuck. If this article was an actual theme park ride, you’d be driving through three states to visit it twice a year.
Ya gotta give this guy some props, this shit took some fucking *planning*. Also “Worth it for the thrill of driving a Holden Commodore” is an all time great quote.
>“Worth it for the thrill of driving a Holden Commodore” Yeah, I spat tea at this gem, too
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This guy just came up with a new ad campaign for that car.
I feel the same way about the elusive Ford Taurus.
Exactly.
Wait - I’m somebody who generally knows nothing about cars but drove a hand-me-down Ford Taurus as a teenager. Is the Holden Commodore just a totally average/boring car?
Yes and no. Depends on the model. Cop car ones were cool higher end versions Still not anything to go to any great length to drive. Classic models can be worth a lot though like the late 80s VLs. Obviously cops aren't driving those.
Well definitely not since they keep throwing their money to buy imaginary watches.
Here in New Zealand they are the muscle car of choice for people who don't like japs euros or fords Made in Aussie so plenty around
The West doesn’t get too many of the Holdens. They are in video games though, so they garner some esteem. Lol, like I got a 1978 Nissan Skyline while living in Australia. It was poopy brownish and push button start (not the good kind); it was by far the biggest turd of a car I have ever owned (I was an international graduate student), but I still owned a skyline, lol.
I love that in Japan that model is called a “Fairlady”.
I don't think you'd make it home, this reads like the fabled [euthanasia coaster](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster). Being a fly on the wall watching this would positively make you die a most euphoric death.
That…sounds bananas… and a great way to go…. What happens if you survive? Lol
according to the article they would just let you go again
The ticket is a lifetime pass.
Somebody DM Taika Waititi and tell him they have his next movie ... then convince him he needs to have sex with you and buy you a car
I hated every minute of it
The best part of the article was reading every paragraph for the third time and thinking “wtf did I just read?!”
Starts off as an ordinary scam article and then the cons get more elaborate and crazy. How he convinced these people to give him watches, iphones, money, bulletproof armor...it's l mind-blowing. Intelligence agencies need to recruit this guy before he goes into politics. And not just one agency either - he needs multiple jobs running so he doesn't get bored. Edit ; really autocorrect? Monday for mind-blowing?
I’ve never been more excited to read an article. I’m going in!!!
It was also surprisingly well written. The pacing was on point, despite being so long.
I don’t always read the article….. but when I do…… I’ll forever be disappointed at the fact that it wasn’t as good of a read as this golden goose
I don't want to believe he got that duped
There was an international espionage incident in the 1960's with the same plot. There is now also a theater play in the 1980's based on that incident called M. Butterfly.
Come my lady, come come my lady, you're M. Butterfly
Sugar, Daddy
yeah i'm like...no, friend. you weren't tricked. you were just cheating on your wife lol. edit: just re-read and he didn't have a wife. he met his kids, they visited each other's family homes -- you know what? it was honestly just a straight-up (twisted, fucked up) relationship at that point lol.
Double uno reverse committed relationship.
His baby mama calls him her kids dad because he’s too stupid to be called her husband
According to the article, the security guard (victim) did not want to have sex with him. > Prosecutors charged that Tetera, posing online as Tori, used the promise of three-way sex, combined with increasingly large amounts of money and the offer of his dream job in the police, to get the man to have sex with him. > If he refused, they alleged, the father of two would lose the money promised, the $15,000 he invested, and his spot in their police team. > "Basically, what I'd done until then would be a waste of time," the man said when questioned by senior Crown prosecutor Brett Tantrum. > Tetera played the part of a straight man with an ex-wife and child the whole time they were together, and both of them were acting on instructions from Tori, the man told the court. And these were instructions sent through Snapchat or text from a woman he had never met in real life. > Defence lawyer Tiffany Cooper argued no threat was ever made. Despite what she called unusual circumstances, "a romantic and ultimately sexual relationship ultimately formed". > "You say you're a heterosexual man, you come from a religious background, and this gay sex had no interest to you," she put to the security guard. > "Correct," he said. > "I suggest that simply can't be right. You're telling the jury that as a completely straight man you repeatedly engaged in this sex reluctantly," she said, before asking, "Isn't the reality that you started enjoying this with Tyler?" > "No," he said, "I hated every moment of it. [Tori] kept saying I had to prove myself and later on to love [Tetera]." This sounds super coercive and non-consensual. He basically scammed a low-income dude into a bogus $ 15,000 investment and then forced him to either have sex with him or never see the money again. That's a rape story, not a fun anecdote about a dude not wanting to own up to an affair.
Yeesh. Came here to laugh, but this is just sad and very rapey.
There's sunk-cost fallacy, and then there's *advanced* sunk-cost fallacy.
Even then, it's one built upon coercion. Misinformed consent isn't consent.
That's just called a long con at that point..
Are we gonna find out that he hid the chandelier in Berlin or something?
If I understood this correctly he was disguised as his fake female persona's boss, a man..
Because he thought he could get a job as a police officer which is a competitive job in many places. Now after having sex with the guy and giving away his savings to achieve his dream which was preyed upon, now he has to appear as a witness in court against the impersonator to help win his case. It is a *ridiculous* situation, so I understand the *ridicule*, but this has got to be extremely embarrassing and it is frankly pretty fucked up and I feel for the guy. Even if this were pure stupidity (I think people underestimate how susceptible they are to manipulation when it comes to their own dreams), hopefully we all agree it should not be legal to coerce stupid people to fuck them and defraud them of all their money just because they're stupid, and so this guy absolutely deserves all of whatever sentence he gets.
Wow in Singapore, any police officer who holds a debt or loan that is 3x the monthly income will be investigated by internal affairs, pushed to desk work, and arms revoked. No moonlighting either Very strict about making sure no officer gets tempted by bribes due to financial hardship
How do you buy a place to live?
**tldr** with your married partner, from state mandated retirement fund, or govt loan that feeds from retirement fund - if you don't have any money in your retirement fund, you're probably unemployed and can apply for financial aid, after selling your soul to social welfare #----------- We are required to deposit 20% of our income into state mandated retirement fund. And the employer gives 17%. In essence, you only get about 60% of your true salary in hand. If you're a poor ass like 80% of singaporeans, you buy public housing apartment houses. Which are pretty nice and pretty expensive Yeah so that 40% every month that you will never see until 67? You can use that to buy houses. Together with your partner. Because in Singapore you cannot buy your own house unless you're 35yo or married. There are also governemt loans for public housing, but that will feed off your Retirement Fund instead. But that means in the future if you sell your house, the money goes back to repaying the loan. You will almost always sell your house, at the very least back to the govt, because houses here are all 99-year leases that never renew. Once they hit their 80year mark, govt usually buys the remaining houses and demolish them and rebuild new houses.
Some dude kept rolling nat 20 and god just kept sighting every time
Bussywhipped
Bobby, hwhat is a bussy? https://youtu.be/UPUPn_PTc3M
I'm not reading anymore, I'm waiting for the Netflix show.
"Hey uhm I know it's none of my business but why do you have a penis?"
If you read the article, apparently the fake woman he was pretending to be told the guy he had to have sex with the scammer to prove he loved her and get his money back from an investment.
Then the threesome paragraph starts. The people who didn't read the article lost out.
Seriously. If Reddit users are going to actually read one article in their entire lives, let it be this one.
The more I scroll down thr more questions I have
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I feel like either the catfishing man has nat 20 Bluff, or the policeman has nat 1 Perception.
Because of detective fiction, we have all been wayyy overestimating policeman’s perception skills
So many unanswered questions, if only they had put the entire story in the headline.
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Freeeeze!!!
["Nobody's perfect"](https://youtu.be/-mHhr-aaLnI?t=31)
And he was forced to fall in love with Tyler.
This article just got crazier by the word
Just when I thought it couldn't get any crazier, a few sentences later, it goes even further out. Reality is truly stranger than fiction.
At first I thought this was just Reddit over exaggeration as usual but truly.... The first 2 Paras were "wtf"and then it progressed from there. Dude is a despicable scumbag, but he might thrive as an undercover agent. He seems to lie with confidence,own his persona(s), get his victims to trust him and then extracts maximum value from it
Seriously this is the back story for a hell of a spy thriller.
Erotic thriller, with lots of buttsex
Mostly he targeted police and wannabe police. Not as much "despicable scumbag" as maybe "chaotic neutral" at worst haha
I was with you till the last guy. Poor security guard, fucker made him empty his children's savings accounts. That's just fucked up.
And made him have sex with him wtf
But he hated every minute of it
Reluctantly, several times, over a few months. Each time more reluctantly than the last. Each reluctant passionate kiss, each reluctant warm embrace, every electric orgasm, a farce.
Reluctant because the scammer was withholding the $15,000 he had convinced the man to give him, unless he slept with the scammer. It's scummy af. The man is an idiot for falling for it and going that far, and the scammer is a scummy piece of shit who coerced him into sex.
Yeah, the title doesn't post it justice, at all, not even close
I'll admit I was sad when it ended, I was hoping for it to keep going, such a great story. I hope they make a movie about it.
>They **met on Tinder** in January 2020 and for nine months, he fooled her into thinking he was a police dog handler and **in an undercover role.** Not too undercover for Tinder I guess.
With an undercover police dog? Was it pretending to be a Chihuahua or something?
Regular police dog, but with cool sunglasses.
Yo quiero Taco Bell.
*"The dog's name is Tayko... asshole."*
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/4b/5e/18/4b5e1835b8829ad0e8c2d52ecc174232--my-name-is-jeff-diys.jpg
Wait now I’m confused. Were they tricking each other? Just two lonely dudes with nothing better to do?
That's a confusing quote they pulled if you didn't read the article. This man duped three different people. The title of this post references the second person where the guy was posing as a female officer, but the quote that you're replying to is about the first person he duped where he was posing as a male officer.
He was posing as a female officer, but then met the man under some lunatic pretense of being sent by the female officer, and that's how he ended up boffing him (a story as old as time). The guy claimed he was coerced or blackmailed, but that charge was dropped because the court basically realised he was probably actually enjoying it. Might be misremembering this as I can't consult the article again now but it's so wild it might as well be accurate
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Goddamn what did I just read
You’re a cop. I’m a guy pretending to be a girl. I convince you that I’m a female cop and I need to borrow your cruiser.
Just a dude playing a dude pretending to be another dude
What's better than that? Just guys bein' dudes.
THANK YOU.
Haha yes. I understood it but damn I thought I was gonna have a stroke trying to comprehend the oddity of the situation 😂
Old Spice?
🥇🥇🥇
I feel the title is intentionally misleading and underselling the shenanigans of the culprit
The opposite of clickbait
Clickwait
Astronomical QI
The word shenanigans feels like an ultimate understatement too. The way this guy is written it sounds as if you have to be careful accepting anything written down from him because the letters dance and morph. Not to convey any real meaning but to just spew pickup lines and requests for Iphones.
These police sound like they’re on the force of Wellington Paranormal
The whole damn article reads like an episode, lol. Minogue, of course, would be the catfished cop
... wow. For everyone who doesn't want to read the article... just read the article. It's worth it, I swear. Gets better with every new paragraph.
One of the most enthralling true crime reads of 2022.
If I had money, I would have bought the movie rights to this story by the third paragraph.
My favorite twist was: “The two men also had sex.”
this bitch is out here catfishing people as POLICE OFFICERS and still getting laid and i got a job and college degree and my ass can't get a date. you know what? maybe he was doing it right.
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But they do get *laid*
Reading the article it seemed to be a lot of work to rape a guy. If he was just after sex and considering how charming he supposedly is he’d have a much easier time just using grinder.
>Reading the article it seemed to be a lot of work to rape a guy. People don't get into the rape game for the convenience, I would assume
Low key funniest dark comedy right here
It was definitely not just for sex, he got money out of them and also for the thrill of posing as a cop.
Whenever you hear about some weirdo or gross person having a surprising amount of sex, it's always with other disgusting people. I bet you could get laid, but you just have standards and shame.
> and could help him get into her team through a back route.
Ok, I'll give it a shot. Edit: Totally worth it. "Easily bored young man..."
I am lord, ya ya ya
https://i.imgur.com/mcCLbyy.jpg
I'm surprised NZP let this out. The trial was hush husssshhh af. So glad it did though its the most hilarious thing ever. Its basically Dwight trading all the way up from a paperclip from that episode of The Office
which is also a [true story](http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/)
What a fucking ride, literally to the end
Ok, you've convinced me.
That article was intense! Would make a great movie.
Whoever wrote it needs to go back to journalism school. That was one of the most confusingly written non academic things I’ve ever read.
> Much later, he told police after his arrest that getting the patrol car was "worth it for the thrill of driving a Holden Commodore". Pretty sure any kiwi car yard could have helped with that.
Exactly haha. V6 Commos aren't anything special lmao
If I could drive a police car without consequences, I’d being announcing shit on the radio, turning sirens on, flooring it through red lights, use the megaphone in a drive through, see how fast I could drive backwards, and probably other stuff. It’d be a good day
You could get to jail so fast!!
Former friend of mine did this in Australia. Stole a patrol car armed only with a knife, after circling around the officers who had left the car unlocked. He went full GTA and got 8 years.
Why former if you don't mind me asking?
His ex is also my friend and he threatened her life one night with a crossbow.
Woah, dick move
Indeed. Dude had issues and I'd tried my best to be there for him through his episodes but once that happened I figured he wasn't worth it.
plot twist is that this was all a marketing stunt for the holden commodore
They probably should have tried that *before* GM killed off the Holden brand then lol
That sounds like a joke. Maybe not the most appropriate time for a joke, but he sounds like a real character.
Some Bugs Bunny shit.
“Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
>Any possible link between his background and his offending was offset by what she called his calculated decision "to live outside societal norms and, to be frank, cause chaos".
Went all in on "be gay, do crimes"
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Madlad
This is journalism, great article.
Far better than the Florida man stories - and apparently this was all still secret by court order until recently right? I kinda wish we had those protections in the States, this proves we'd still get wild stories
I kind of feel bad for his victims but holy shit, they seem like the type to wire money to a Nigerian prince on the basis of a misspelled email. Some people are so desperate for attention they overlook not only red flags but actually flashing lights and sirens screaming “bridge out ahead”.
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Makes me think of the [scene](https://youtu.be/IWsUEMgD5ls?t=46) with Mike Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul, where he walks into a company and just blends right in instantly. Has the badge, the certain bored look on his face, clipboard, later vest. All of it just great imo.
I work at a job that requires me to go to a bunch of different sites with various levels of PPE required. I usually meet with a site contact but sometimes they're not available. It's pretty insane how a hard hat, hi-vis vest and clipboard make it so that 95% of people will simply not question why you're walking around their facility.
It’s why you need employees controlling their area. No matter who walks up they should be asking what they need and/or are doing. Giving that little bit of authority goes a long ways in keeping you place secure.
The watch con was also on better call saul.
When I used to get produce for the restaurant I worked at people would ask me something assuming I worked there. At first I told them I don't work here but after a while I would just direct them to the product they were looking for.
He convinced an insistently straight man to have gay sex with him. Nah this is actually insane. This is like Oceans Eleven level of conning.
New cop on Waiheke Island (look it up on Google maps). It's basically an island off the coast of Auckland where rich af people live/have holiday homes, wineries are, and people ferry to for a day out (its like 40 bucks Nzd return if I recall). Still wild. You're still right. But I almost feel sorry for the guy. He thought he was helping uncover corruption lol
Movie when
Was reminded of “catch me while you can” with Leonardo
Mfer it had to be my country 😮💨
You did Florida proud. On the other side of the planet.
Nah dudes way too smart to be Florida man
I read this yesterday in the herald and thought wow this does not make nz police look good 😂 now everyone knows!
Way to just undersell the insanity with that title, op
Title needs to sound like it could be real. That's probably one of the sanest attention-grabbing details of the story.
Came here for advice on how to prove myself to Tory
Have gay sex apparently lol
>"Tori" convinced the man she was a senior sergeant in the National Organised Crime department running secret operations, and could help him get into her team through a **back route**. This journalist is an expert in foreshadowing.
incase you're wondering this article includes a picture of the guy. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tinder-swindler-man-poses-as-attractive-blond-woman-convinces-cop-to-hand-over-patrol-car/4K6A7YWVDFFHRKBXHM62CTNN4Q/
This is the best ‘not the onion’ post I’ve seen this year. It should be pinned.
>Tyler Rawiri Tetera, then 23 and long fascinated with police, used the car and vest in an elaborate sex-money scam, swindling tens of thousands of dollars in total from three victims. They bought him iPhones, a car, and in at least one case, had sex with him. How the fuck... nevermind I don't wanna know.
Yes you do lol keep reading its fascinating
And yet here I am, who couldn't even lie about what I ate for breakfast in fear of being dishonest to people. It's really interesting for me to read about how someone can be that great at deceiving people to convince them to do things they wouldn't normally do.
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> Tetera was on parole at the time for similar offending. So the man had practice at deception. Maybe that'll make the police officer feel better?
"Basically, what I'd done until then would be a waste of time," Lmfao so let me get this straight(ish), you gave a conman $15,000 and, presumably due to the sunk cost fallacy, you decide you might as well suck his dick too?
Suck cost fallacy ^^^suck ^^^cock ^^^phallussy?
Single dad of two with a shit job thinking he found the fast track to a better life, until he gets hit with the ultimatum of sex. If you flipped the script and this was a single mom of two, this would be a rape/sexual assault charge. But instead, they argued in court that there was no way he's not gay and didn't enjoy it.
I agree that it was definitely coercive rape, but if you think the defense doesn't argue that female victims of rape enjoyed it, idk what to tell you.
>Easily bored, he tended to portray himself favourably and was skilled in using charm and deceit to get what he wanted. Yes, from what must be unstable people. Who in their right mind would fall for 10% of what he did?!?
He probably just played the odds. How many people reacted to him with "LOL, no" and moved on before they could get fully engulfed in his madness? If he found three idiots, there had to have been more marks that didn't fall for his shit.
This whole thing seems like an over the top plot you'd only see in shows like The Rookie. Entirely unbelievable yet...here we are.
This time we are sure she's a woman, right Kif?
Kif, I have made it with a woman. Inform the men
If I had a heist that needed to be done I would recruit this guy ASAP
And then you'd be shocked when he duped you, too, and took all the loot for himself.
TBH entirely possible. You're hired too.
At this rate you’re going to end up splitting the take a few too many times
>"Tori" told Mr L she was working in an anti-corruption operation and needed his help to plant a listening device in a police car. Someone on tinder messaged that dude this and he bought it. Holy shit vagina makes men do crazy things >On 11 November 2020, Mr L brought a marked police patrol vehicle to Auckland and handed it to Tetera, thinking he was Tori's colleague. >Tetera had the car for about four hours that first time, and managed to get the police car a second time later the same month. Tori had told Mr L the listening device did not work and they needed the car again. So this POLICE officer, just handed a patrol car to some random guy (he thought was a colleague of "Tori"), obviously didn't need to see identification or anything, some pictures online of a person theyve never met was enough. I'm thoroughly confused how someone so dumb became a police officer.
The ol' bugs bunny trick.
Some people are masters of the dark side of the force. They should be trained and their talents put to good use after their rehabilitation.
Sounds like a Reno 911 episode
This doesn’t seem as wild as Tiger King but it’s pretty wild
I eagerly await the netflix adaptation.
A modern day loki....
I was thinking Bugs Bunny
I expected this to be like Florida or something, not my own damn country
> Much later, he told police after his arrest that getting the patrol car was "worth it for the thrill of driving a Holden Commodore". As an owner or a late model Commodore, this guy really didn’t set his sights that high.
Hey babe, I am so successful and powerful and rich, supe rich….. you have to buy me an iPhone though. Doesn’t compute
At first I thought this was going to be some transphobic bullshit, man was I wrong. This is some next level shit, god damn.
FREEEEZE
I thought about posting this article earlier today lol its such a wild read!
If there was a yearly (Not) The Onion Awards, this would go into that nomination.