#64 What do boyracers have to do with the Penguin Well, to be honest probably not much, the article doesn't explicitly mention that there was a speeding car. But if it's something to do with a road accident you can bet that the boyracer sub-culture in NZ will be dropped in somewhere. There's a REALLY simple explanation for it. A very large portion of the community really really hate Boyracers. And the boy racing community will forever have to accept it. We hate the fact that they scream around outside our houses at all hours of the morning in their excessively loud cars. We've all got enough things keeping us awake at night without a 'fully siiiick' Honda ripping past the window with an engine louder than a jet plane. We hate the bad trance music that they often blare and blast. This is simply a style issue. They're vulgar, but you know, that's their complete lack of taste. No biggie. We really hate that every so often they end up killing people in road accidents. Bystanders and passengers alike. You don't need to say much more than that. If boy racers want overpowered Japanese cars that drip of machismo and p**s compensation then they'll have to accept that the people they wake up at night, the people they tick off and the families of the people they sometimes accidentally kill won't just ignore them. Some smart boyracer may one day open up a track so that they can all go and race around somewhere where the rest of us don't have to put up with the simply dangerous aggressive behavior.

What about rebuilding the road so that it undulates all the way down the Karaka Bay straight. That way, the penguins can cross at the apex points of the road, and the boy racers will destroy their cars if they try to go more that 30kmh? That would kill two birds with one stone ....

This story is about the penguin that got killed by a motorist and for speed bumps to be put in place to prevent this from happening again , i dont see anywhere in this story that " boy racers" was mentioned, all you whingeing old idiots moaning about boy racers again ??? get over it will you this has nothing to do with it !!!!! as for the poor little penguin it saddens me to read this story as the little blue penguins are special to new zealand and i personally think that speed bumps would be a great idea to stop this from happening in the future :) and by the way just because we argree with the speed bump idea doesnt make us F**King tree huggers !!!!

Talk about a mole hill.. Seriously.. who cares? The odds are that flightless birds wondering along public roads are going to get hit once in a while. The fact that this story even hit the news must mean that its uncommon, therefore nothing to worry about it. Get a life people.

#63. What have boyracers got to do with the story at hand?

I'm shocked at #29 and #32's responses. It's people like you who sit back and let everyone else come up with ideas and work hard to make our community a better place, but are the first to jump up and slander everyone or complain...if there weren't caring people in the world, this place would be a very grim place indeed. Just because penguins can't speak doesn't mean they shouldn't be looked after and protected. They are special to New Zealand, and I think that that is reason enough for consideration from us Kiwi's! As for the stupid comment "Who Cares..." well I think it's very obvious....quite a few actually! Worry about the things you can change...this is one of those things, you simply have a terrible attitude to life in general-human or otherwise. As for fighting AIDS and starvation...what has that got to do with the story at hand? Are you doing anything to help in those areas? Probably sitting back in your chair ready to critasize those so called "do gooders" in life who do have compassion. I don't personally know the area in Wellington where this is happening, but if at all possible, why not fence this area off and have gates that can be closed off at night to protect these cute and indigenous creatures. We all live in this beatiful country and all deserve to live together in harmony...P.S I'm not a "F****ing tree hugger" just a decent New Zealander.

#43 - Thank you Eric, I thought I was the only one who was mildly disturbed that this guy not only took a photo of the squished penguin but had it blown up! WTF?

This is such a sad story... poor Juan Carlos.

Perhaps those boy racers and their cars should be buried along Karaka Bay Road to act as speed bumps and deterrents to other motoring meatheads.

The speedbumps at UH Pak'n'save are very effective at keeping speeds down - I've never seen a squished penguin there!

Actually Scott does have a point, there's no evidence it was a 'boy racer' and it's more likely than not that it was an ordinary member of the public, just because you aren't a boy racer doesn't mean you aren't immune to accidently hitting penguins.

Other than that Scott is totally off base, we should care about penguins, in fact we should care about all animals. Why does the penguin have any less right to live than any other living creature?