Govt officials took food, clothing - activist

16 Mar 2012 10:39a.m.

aurora aust wrote:

"Busby Noble said his food, diesel and clothing were taken from Scott Base" Jarle Andhøy is a professional celebrity, a living work of fiction, and Busby Noble has been recruited (amidst a web of contradictory stories put about by Jarle as to how this happened) into a mobile reality-TV media circus which is the laughing stock of real sailors and explorers, and which relies for its popularity on controversy, fueled by insinuation, innuendo and outright lies. Busby has been misled. It is not possible that 'his' clothes and food had ever been at Scott Base. Presumably he is actually referring either to the stuff abandoned by Jarle when he made his ignominious departure after Berserk sank a year earlier, which was eventually sent to NZ after Jarle ignored attempts to make other arrangements, or to the depots which Jarle presumes Berserk put ashore, somewhere along the Ross Sea coastline, in his absence. He doesn't know what was left, where or when, if anything. The Ross sea is nearly as big as Western Europe. I feel sadness for Busby for allowing himself to be taken in. Unfortunately his own credibility suffers when he repeats Jarle's vile slander.

26 Feb 2012 11:31p.m.

jade hiku wrote:

hi my name is jade hiku buzzby noble is my god father he is not a liar and he has never disrepected anyone in my whole life but he has his strong beliefs in what our people as maori stand for and our ways triditionally he was out there doing the right thing and now the goverment has disrespected him and taken everything how is he suppose to get home he was doing something to help others and this is the way that is treated were is the help that he needs from the goverment and the people that are to blame

21 Feb 2012 07:21p.m.

Jim Seaview wrote:

Quote:'"Mr Noble “is angry with the New Zealand Government for doing such an inhumane thing,” she says.“He is frozen - there's no clothes, there's no food. He just wants to get home.”
However, Antarctica New Zealand CEO Lou Sanson says the claims aren’t true, and he has “no idea why [Mr Noble] is making these statements”.

I believe Mr Lou Sanson.

If Mr Busby Noble wanted to go for a holiday, and he chose to go with a with self proclaimed viking Jarle Andhoy, despite not having permits for the trip, terrific - it was his decision. Mr Noble was not hi-jacked or kidnapped - he volunteered to go on this vacation and by all accounts - he was ill equipped. He could have chosen Westport or Ekatahuna where the climate would be a lot kinder to him. But no its "Hi HO Hi Ho its off to Antarctica we go". Now that he has two cold feet, he now wants the hard earning taxpayer of NZ to help retrieve him and send him home Tauranga. Another Tosser with his hand out.
Start fishing or swimming!!!!