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N. Zealand boots boorish tourists
The Waltons they’re not. A family of British tourists behaved so badly on vacation in New Zealand that officials there issued deportation orders to boot them from the country.
The Boorish Bunch — the Johnson family, believed to be from Liverpool — left a trail of trash and hurt feelings during their extended rampage through the country, stiffing restaurants and steaming locals every step of the way.
It got so bad that New Zealanders tracked the movements of the Beverly Hillbillies-like clan on social media — to warn their fellow Kiwis to steer clear.
The confrontation between the family and the locals came to a head last week when a local resident filmed them leaving large amounts of trash on Takapuna Beach, near Auckland.
Krista Curnow asked the Johnsons to pick up the garbage.
The family wasn’t having it. One of the youngest members of the clan — an 8-year-old boy — threatened to “knock your brains out,” she said.
“About four or five ladies stood around me,” said Curnow. “They were saying they were going to hit me . . . and I started walking backwards to get out of it. Even grandma and the child got involved, saying they wanted to punch my head in.”
After the incident was uploaded to social media, a group of Kiwis launched a petition to get the family kicked out once and for all. It worked. The family, which traveled to the isolated nation to visit the movie set where the “Lord of the Rings” series was filmed — was forced to cut its vacation short last week after the deportation hearing.
“We have to go home early because the New Zealand people are treating my family like s--t,” John Johnson griped to the New Zealand Herald.
“I feel very unwelcome here. I feel like an alien invader.”
Johnson says it’s his family — wife, kids, parents and brother David and sister-in-law — who are the victims.
“We were sitting there, and a little boy smacked one of the kids,” said Johnson. “One of the guys got very violent to one of my friends, and everybody got around us and we had no choice but to get up and leave and there was a mess there, [but] we couldn’t clean it up because we were badly intimidated by a group of people.”
But a neighbor in Britain told The Sun that the family has a bad rep at home, too.
“They copulate, defecate and urinate. It is never-ending,” said the neighbor, who did not want to be identified. “We’ve had sheep chased and killed by their dogs, they’ve used our land to take drugs and farming equipment has been going missing. It’s the younger ones. They just do whatever they want to do. They were using our address for their mail.”