Year: 2006

  • Cass biting

     For those of you who know her, this wont be a surprise at all. But here is the first ever photo of Cass attempting to bite me. I tried fending her off with my hand, but she just started munching!

    Cass biting Ryan Hellyer

  • Broken Leg

    Yeah, yeah I know. Who breaks their leg playing badminton? You can see a spiral fracture of my fibula down near my ankle.

    Broken leg X-ray

  • Badminton Champion

    I won the United Club D-grade Mens singles championship in my first attempt! It took all of my strength and stamina to beat my opposition … which was … er … non-existent! I was the only D-grader who turned up to compete, so I won the cup by default 🙂

    Shelley MacDonell holding Ryan Hellyer’s badminton cup

    My friend Shelley holding my cup.

    Ryan Hellyer’s badminton championship cup

    It even had my name engraved in it.

  • Meals on wheels?

    This is blatant piracy. So if you are the copyright holder and don’t want me hosting this video then just wing me an email and I’ll remove it. But since this is my own personal site, I’m not trying to make any money out of it and the news item is about me; I figured it would be okay. And no, I’m NOT planning on becoming a meals on wheels delivery boy! I also wasn’t distraught, I hated that car anyway.

    There’s some gossip behind this video. If you want to know about it, just email me to hear all about it.

  • R I P

    Some dear friends of mine died recently. They were on the back seat of my car when it was callously torched 🙁

    This is Muncher, he was born at the Cookie Time factory and lived a short but exciting life, taken around the West Coast of New Zealand with Anna and myself. He also made excursions to the Catlins and Invercargill.

    Muncher

    This is Cartman, he lived most of his life in the rear window of my old Honda Civic. He then camped out in my parents basement on top of their TV set while I went to Canada and then inhabited my Toyota Corolla till his brutal death. Cartman visited most of New Zealand including Palmerston North, Wellington, the West Coast, and every ice and inline hockey rink in the South Island. He was well known for wearing the pimp hat which Mary Mintel and Kerry Perkins made for me.

    Cartman

    The hat is an interesting story in itself! Mary, Kerry and I hunted high and low for a suitable feather to stick in it for me to use as part of my pimp costume for Stephen Brassett’s 21st party. Luckily we found one in a very nice feather duster.

  • Burnt car photos

    I’ve been looking for these photos for the past three years! I eventually found them whilst looking through my old backup disks for some other photos. So here for your amusement are the photos of my car after some lunatics took it for a drunken joy ride. Visit the original post for more information. Thanks to Mark Dudley for the photos.

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

    Ryan Hellyer's burned car

  • Burnt Car

    Some $&*%# decided it would be nice idea to break into my car, take it for a joy ride, get drunk whilst at it, then drive it to the top of Signal Hill in Dunedin, put the handbrake on and floor it till the rims hit the tarmac then once it wouldn’t move any further set it on fire!!! Luckilly I was insured, so I only lost $50 on the car.

    Outside of my burnt car

    Inside of my burnt car

    Here’s what it looked like before they got hold of it.

    Ryan Hellyer’s Toyota Corolla

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    Interviewer was Geoff Yorston.

  • Silverpeaks tramp

    Mark Hareb, my flatmate Dars and myself went tramping on the Silverpeaks route, just out of Dunedin. Things started badly when my giant three liter bottle of water split only half an hour into the tramp. I carried it in for another hour and ditched at the turnoff where we would be arriving back to later in the day.

    View over the Silver peaks

    The route is quite old and hasn’t been maintained in a long time so picking out where you’re supposed to go was tricky. We didn’t get lost though 🙂 However, later in the day the wind picked up incredibly strong. We were getting knocked off our feet all the time and we started to run out of water!

    Mark Hareb on the Silverpeaks route

    After much cursing from Dars and me getting quite dehydrated, we eventually made our way off the ridges, hence away from the wind and back to the water bottle I ditched earlier in the day.

    Dars standing beside a cute little lamb

    All up it took us just over 13 hours to complete the tramp. En route I twisted my ankle a few times which I didn’t think was a major drama, however a week later was when I twisted the same ankle again and broke my leg 🙁

    Mark and Dars tramping on the Silverpeaks route

  • Lake Hayes

    I headed through to go partying with Anna and her friends in Queenstown. I took these photos on the way back home.

    Lake Hayes #1

    Lake Hayes #2

  • Rally of Otago

    I went to see some of the special stages of the Rally of Otago with Scott and Marthah (my brother and his fiance). Lots of sideways action, dust, noise and excitement. The photos didn’t turn out too well, my camera lens got quite dirty and I didn’t realise till after I uploaded them 🙁

    Rally of Otago 2006

    Rally of Otago 2006