Is Huntly the Worst Town in NZ? - New Zealand Today S3
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Huntly has been voted the "sh****st" town in New Zealand.
Guy Williams and the New Zealand Today crew set out to prove that it's not.
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Laurie is truly an icon at this point
Laurie finna get citizen of the year for his service toward betterment of Huntly
Laurie gonna get McGinty's fines for serving intoxicated patrons. lmao.
L Aston Villa
Also a potential serial killer. Top bloke.
Laurie for Mayor!
Looks like Huntly Tourism just got their latest marketing campaign.
“Huntly - nothing wrong with it!”
Love the way the Shit Towns guy is holding back his laughter at "who the fuck are you"
the camera crew in the back is cracking up aswell
🤣🤣👍🏻
Fuk you where my 50 bucks
Watch out
"We got Aquatic centre, Its like a lake but put in a room and a roof over the head, So your hair dont get wet" 😂😂😂😂 What a tour guide :V
Such a shame. I grew up there. Had a brilliant, idyllic childhood. Went to the movies every Friday night. Played netball every Saturday in winter and swam in the river and, jumped off the main bridge during the summers. Everybody knew each other - difficult to get into trouble because you knew half the town was related to you and would tell your parents/grandparents if you were up to no good :). I'm going to assume it's still a good place as I still have lots of family there and they are wonderful people - some of the best in the world!!!!
And you left Huntly because....
Never knew they had a cinemas there lmao... I use to go up there every weekend because of my parent's work it was ok parts of it were gang affiliated but besides that it was descent at best
I grew up I huntly and was racially abused and physically abused by Maori for being white, horrible place to grow up, terrible memories
Well said! Some if the vest towns don't live up to societies ideals. However, when studies are done, people are on average happier than in the big cities that are rated highly.
Narp u outta ur mind
Huntly needs a big town sign with "Nothing wrong with it" on it
Guy: How’s it going Laury?
Laury: Good
Guy: Anything you’d like to say to us?
Laury: Who the fk are you?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I'm always drunk", pure gold...
2:33
Buy a scooter to avoid drink driving charges 😄 🤣..nice one Laurie 👍
We spent Easter weekend in Huntley in 2018….we really enjoyed it, meet some very friendly and hospitable local people and couldn’t work out why a number of Kiwi’s from outside of Huntley had questioned the wisdom of visiting this town….
Cracked me up. Used to live in Shitsville, Queensland where the old drunks were onto the mobility scooter lark until the cops got wise and booked them anyway.
Townsville?
@@BdonkinDonuts Mareeba
So happy that you guys are making new episodes I'm watching from Melbourne Australia and Italian and aboriginal
I've never been to Italian or aboriginal. How is it there?
@@choddyroll6058 There's nothing wrong with Italian & Aboriginal 😎
@@choddyroll6058 🤣🤣
interesting mix , bush tucker on the pizza ?
@@camwells9726 🤣
I love McGinty’s Huntly Tab
Liking before it happens and because I know there's gonna be a DEKA sign joke.
8:40
So glad these are back. You guys fucking rule.
See im alright see, I'm at McGintys 7 days a week. Words of a legend
Old drunk is a legend
He's 23
@@TheTruthKiwi Gold...lol
This is hilarious. Huntley is famous in England now
I'm going to nz in September im going through huntly in a RV and definitely stopping of at McGintys
Huntly will always have my respect. Met some locals years ago who were really easy going people.I reckon Huntly people know how good they've got it.
You're jesting ofcourse???
At least they're not Jaffas
@@rogerwilco4736 Not at all Sir.
@@OkinInc all i can say is some people are very easily pleased
@@rogerwilco4736 - My sister visits there and loves it. I visit there and am the complete opposite. I'm on edge! It's just different for different people 😂
When I was younger they took away the H and changed it to a C so we were right all along
.. the gentle smear was funny
The swimming pool has a roof over it so you don’t get your hair wet 😂
Whoever called Huntly the worst town has obviously never been to Greymouth
you have obviously never been to Ohai
Whoever called Greymouth the worst town has obviously never been to Gore. That town is a shit hole
@@032254855 you’ve got that right haha @guywilliams go there next
Lol the layer coal smoke almost choked me in Ohai last winter flying through it.
Brohai 😊🍄
Just added McGintys in Huntly to the list of places I will visit when in NZ.
Their new town slogan should be "Huntly: There's Nothing Wrong With Us" 🤣🤣🤣 Or "Huntly: Home Of The Gentlest Smears" 😂😂😂
Way to go Guy, makes me actually wanna spend a day in Huntley !
Visit Paint can lake
May 1st, 1997… my mates and I are in two vehicles heading up to the North Shore Events Center for the Korn concert. We’ve been smoking joint after joint all the way from Hamilton. We also dropped a double dipped Alien trip just before we left.
Guess what kicked in driving through Huntly? Yep… and the power station chimneys started falling towards the car I was in. We all saw it.
Only memory I have of the place and it is forever ingrained in my psyche because of that awesome road trip.
Wicked story bruv 👌💯 Up the Huntly lol 🏭
How to have an epic road trip ..double dip an alien trip ❤🤙
Thank you so much for making me miss NZ even more.
NZ is so beautiful 🥰 Melissa 😊 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
@@Royeblack-nv9et I'm Kiwi born and raised but don't live there now, life takes you in different directions sometimes. Take care.😀
@@spoiltdiva Yeah true life 🧬 takes is in different directions sometimes. Have always want to visit NZ Melissa 😊 if I may ask where are you now and hope you're having a blessed and wonderful day over there my friend 😊 ?
I remember installing some fibre in the ground and some guy walked out covered in blood from a knife fight I think.
That HQuarters dance crew was legit awesome haha
Guy you are growing as a person and as a journalist, this was a gorgeous piece sweetboy 🖤🖤🖤
👍
I was there 25 years ago, looks like nothing has changed.
Man, that was cold
Never expect much, but this show is brilliant.
Dang, this shit is the second funniest shit on the inter webs
What’s the first
@@peachi7826 Your PM. Ouch!
@@Matto_Harvo yeah, that's why she gets invited to all the cool places around the world. oops. living in denial burns like fire eh?
So, I never thought Huntly was the shittiest town, always thought it was the typical small industrial regional NZ town with all its blue collar quirks… until I watched this. It really is shit.
This vid shows the best parts of the town.
@@stevel9627 🤣
At the beginning reporter walking up the street says, "I feel bad for Huntly", and me thinking at the same time , "What beautiful tiles they use for a main street, how cool and neat this town is". From a kiwi who has been in Australia too long (and originally from Taumarunui)
Mate there's good people everywhere, doesn't mean it's not shit. Prisons and power stations doesn't exactly give people confidence they gonna have a mean time there 😂😂😂
Bro took this video a bit too seriously
Next time I’m driving south I’m calling into Mcgintys and having a beer with Laurie
Sharon 😊 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
Geez you had me going, I couldn't stop laughing. Well done.
omg why isnt there more views for this awesome channel GO HUNTLY
Should visit South Auckland next
Vivek I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
I miss you NZ!!! 💖🤙 Huntly is great!
Omg its chris thornley 1:32 and 1:48 hes the bro i lived with in huntly he had two houses he burnt one down. Good to see your still alive bro much love from me and famz down in Christchurch well come see you one day
I'm glad the highway is built.
You guys obviously haven’t been to Wairoa before
Is it worse? I've seen Murupara. Way worse than Huntly
Hell yeah that dude had a PANTERA shirt on! 🤘CFH🤘
Carolina 😊 🌺 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
Huntly has some surprisingly good op shops, would rate the bakery 8/10. Ngaruawahia however, is the town we drove into then did a 180 and left without even opening the door…
Melissa 😊 🌺 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
Yeah it's the people. Awesome 👌
Old school nz
Anywhere outside of Auckland is pretty much the same,the people are just sheltered.
it might be the worst town in NZ for some but still it was not even 1 percent compared to the worst places/town of other country. the town it self has no problem .it was the people that chooces to make it look worst that give it a nasty reputation.still they have to be thankfull that they have a worst place to live in rather than live under the bridge like in other country.
I recall driving past the Fruit World many times, on the way to somewhere good.
1:51 Bahahaha 🤣
Shes adorable, and her friends reaction lol absolute Gold
Dr John gates 😆
Had a great pie in Huntley nz in 2001 . Come on strathbogie!
I really hope this was made with funding from New Zealand on air.
Lmao most gentle smears in the world dr john gates 1:52
You should come Guy Williams in Palmerston North
one of the most funniest videos i have come across in ages just magic
now i know what happened to the blue blood that runs the show in NZ years of swimming in the lead, copper, uranium filled infested rubbish tip called a lake
Manny I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
What?
Huntly is just a small town in the Waikato. Home is what you make it. All small towns have their challenges.
Driven through Huntly many times but never stopped.
I totally love living in Huntly. Been here six years, and it's great!
How often do you see Laurie rolling around town
@@yaboijack67 Hey, I don't go to the pub, so never. 🙂
I bought a house at a walking distance from that pub. But I don't go to pubs. Funny enough the house has appreciated like 50% over the last 4 years. Lived there for a bit but I am an introvert and boring geek, working from home. So it didn't bother me. Used to joke that the only tome I would see humans was when I walk to countdown. I like small cities but Huntly is a little too small, though Hamilton is a few minutes away.
@@yaboijack67 I live in Huntly, i’ve seen him about twice. He lives near McGinty’s so he doesn’t spend much time out and about.
Cor....there s some characters in that Mc. Gintys
Laurie is a great New Zealander
Only place I've ever been to that has singing toilets! In the main street. They were playing Dean Martin when I dropped by, which I thought was kind of perfect.
But the town in general suffers from economic malaise. Crime, poverty, few jobs, limited futures. Physically, it's changed for the worse, not so much in the main centre which has been cleaned up, especially along the riverside, but south along the Great South Road, what used to be semi-rural countryside is now a wilderness of light industry and the quarries and open-cast mines have turned bushclad and farmed hillsides to total shit.
The town lacks charm. Maybe it never had it, being forged by the lure of coal profiteering from the 1870s and even into the present, despite coal's current dirty fuel reputation. Huntly is the Waikato's answer to Westport. It's tired and worn down and bypassed and stuck and maybe even the Mahutas can't revive its mana, though Waahi is their marae.
Huntly West has always been more downtrodden than Huntly East, a sign of historical cultural inequality stemming from the land confiscations.
The locals might moan about Aucklanders (who doesn't?), but the down-country shift from the city might be the town's salvation, bringing new energy, extra money and ideas.
Then there's the River. Also underutilised except via political machinations that see its waters being sucked out for use elsewhere. There must, surely, be safe, ecologically viable recreational uses to which it can be put - some that local Iwi could oversee, perhaps.
Yeah, Huntly is a shit town. I rag on it from time to time, too. But it's no worse than some other small towns and in some cases, it's better (I'm looking at you, Papakura!). It's still viable, still has a beating heart; it just has to somehow drag its arse out of the 1970s and into whatever constitutes the positive bits of the 21st Century.
Wait a minute! Am I actually going to bat for my old home town, the place I couldn't wait to leave over 50 years ago? I suppose with all the bad memories, there are some worthwhile ones, too.
John Cale and Lou Reed put the dilemma succinctly:
"There is only one good thing about small town
There is only one good use for a small town
There is only one good thing about small town
You know that you want to get out
"When you're growing up in a small town
You know you'll grow down in a small town
There is only one good use for a small town
You hate it and you'll know you have to leave"
Rex Harrison…he’s a funny(ish) Presenter but I’d have liked it better if he’d had the nerve to go interview one of the local Mob blokes, or BPower. (Yeah, I get it that they never turn up with just one of them.) I’ve seen tv chats with some of them talking about where they live, and sometimes they are actually really funny. But he’s probably intimidated by them. A shame. Missed opportunity.
The town drunk on the mobility scooter was hilarious, a classic who has just thought, ‘fuck it, I’m drinking myself to death.’
People here have been saying Greymouth has even better credentials for NZ’s Most Shit Town. I’ve been there several times and, yeah, it’s a bit sleepy, a bit boring, but the locals seemed, to me anyway, generous and open personalities. If your car broke down outside town, they’d stop with an offer of help, I think. But that’s The Coast for ya. Could do worse than that.
One of the funniest videos in a long time. And yep - Huntley certainty isn't the best town in New Zealand, not when one of it's star attractions is a polluted lake
No it's not god please Ngaruawahia not far from it is worse
True fact Huntly actual has a silent C at the start of its name …
The DEKA sign though
Sherie I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
Yes.
'they all died'
"how?"
'idk *smiles'
fuck that had me in fits hahahahahah
Some small towns in central North Island are pretty bad.
i will always have respect for huntly and some of the people in it, it’s just dickheads in this town that make it look bad. Huntly has everything you need ! ✌🏽
What if I needed a tennis table club? A drama club? A theatre sports team?
😆 🤣 😂 😹 I remember they use to say Hamilton was the place for STIs 😆
Love Muntly 🤘🏽😆
When ya lived in Te Kauwhata in the 80s then goin to Huntly was like going to the city....
I’m not wise I’m just a drunk hhahahah
This was the home town of Dustin Martin's dad, my Aussie cousins.
Nothing wrong with huntly clean water freshest lakes beautiful scenery looking at the powerstation and the mighty waikato river What a bliss.
There's definitely something wrong with Huntly.
Rest of the world is fucked. Huntly is all good bro
At least they have a free overnight camp park! Not many of those anywhere
Huntley is the new Disneyland.
🤣🤣 you never know!
Shoutout to the rivermill factory in Huntley baby!! 😂 if Huntly is the shittiest place in New Zealand, that’s a compliment man. New Zealand got a high standard cause huntly is beautiful.
True though. I lived in Huntly for about a year and I didn't think it was that bad. North of Huntly there is a village called Meremere. Now thats shity. Not even a town.
Huntly is a great town...otherwise ex-Aucklanders would never had made to Hamilton.
Where’s my $50 bucks 🤣😂🤣😂
LoL 😆 Teri I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook
Cool... can't wait for the next episode, say this time next year.?
🤣🤣😂😂😂 "they don't see the good in Huntley" and what is the good in Huntley.....crickets
For a ‘Shit Town’ Huntly has some cheap houses on the market for only being a hour away from Auckland.
Guy getting his Nathan Feilder on.
I'm in huntly right now lol. It's nice and quiet. That's what sometimes we all need. ❤
your da best bro😂
lletss gooooo
C -huntly
what are the best night clubs in nz?
Lol worst town is wherever the most natives are. Or jacinda
OK boomer 🤡
I used to do the shuts at the power station so, as a fly-by-nighter, the locals had every reason to resent me. Except I was safe and welcome at their pubs, including my terrible karaoke, and even got invited to their homes for meals. As a little old white guy I'd have to say they're nice people who know how to treat folk with respect.
nz is weird
das us 1owts
@@SPYMASTERx wot ea yor all shet ea
yup. all part of the plan "stealth New Zealand". we WANT the rubes of the world to think we are some sort of weird evil villain lair... so you asshats will not ever come here and ruin it.
haha i lost my shit when i seen the woody sign out the front of mcgintys
great vid 19th on trending no wayyy
"mate you have clocked life"😂
I reckon Huntly 's new tourist activity should be find Laurie buy him a beer 😆
Totally disagree. I worked there in the 1970s. People were lovely. Lots of great scenery. Magnificent river.
The good people are still here, but so are a lot more bad people.
It's great you have good memories of your stay but a lot can change in 50 years!
I can't believe how big Huntly is.I HAD PAST THAT TOWN ALL MY LIFE AND NEVER NOTICE THE TOWN,I had only known the big chimneys there, on my next pasting i will go all the way into Huntly next time and go to Gintly for a round