Dave Letele

And then because my parents were working in the system, they said, go over to Kaikohe court, make a voluntary appearance, say that your parents are up here and that if they'll allow, you'd like to do the community service and stuff up here.

And so I went in, you know, and this is the thing, bro.

Dress nice, bro.

You know, you learn that from an early age.

If you're going to go to court, bro, don't dress thing, you know.

Don't dress down, dress up.

Put a nice shirt on, present yourself properly.

Stand tall, you know, you know, you know, you know.

you know, even if you're going down, bro, you know, even if you're going down, don't, you know, don't let the system get you down.

And, yeah, the judge goes, all right, mate, you can, you can do it up here.

Because the kuni cops, the oha kuni cops, bro, wanted me back down there so they could do me.

And the judge said, yep, cool, who you were.

And then, you know, Papa Nau, who was my stepfather, he said, I'm going to do the thing.

And then, so he goes, you can do your community service with me.

And I said, yeah,

Come on, mate.

Just sign the thing.

Just sign it off.

Just sign it off, man, so I can think.

And he goes, no, you're going to come and do my anger management courses.