Tony Veitch: "Do you get HIT ON much?" (Mar. 16, 2013)

Tony Veitch: "Do you get HIT ON much?" 
Radio Sport, Saturday 16 March 2013. 3:20 p.m. 
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If you know anything about the ins and outs of commercial radio in 
Auckland, you will know that Tony "Boot Boy" Veitch, described in 
moronic station promos as "the mouthy midget", had his floundering 
career kick-started when he was controversially brought back into The 
Radio Network (TRN) fold, having served a rather short stand-down 
period following scandalous revelations of his extreme violence 
against women, which included his knocking his former fiancée to the 
ground and then kicking her repeatedly until he paralyzed her. 

While that hopelessly easy mark "Sir" Graham Henry was foolishly 
manipulated into writing a character reference for him to use in 
mitigating evidence, most people, even at the notoriously lax TRN, 
have the nous to recognize a violent, self-involved thug when they see 
one, and they certainly see one in Tony Veitch. His return to 
microphone duties was not welcomed by most of his colleagues; several 
technicians and producers point-blank refused to work for him. Women 
employees in particular at the The Radio Network were (and are) 
concerned for their safety, and insist on never being left alone with 
him. 

One of the problems Veitch's new producers have found, apart from 
screening the seemingly non-stop lineup of angry callers trying to 
disrupt every single Veitch show, is getting anybody to come on the 
programme to speak with him. 

Today, unaccountably, his producers managed to persuade (no doubt 
against her better judgement) the Northern Mystics netballer Julie 
Corletto to subject herself to an hour of sleazy innuendo and inane 
questions from the Boot Boy. 

Interestingly, she insisted that she be accompanied throughout the 
interview by her husband, a 6 foot 4 inch, 200-pound professional 
basketballer. No doubt her husband's presence saved her from being 
physically bothered by the Boot Boy, but he still managed to pitch her 
the following perverted gem.... 

TONY VEITCH: You're a good looking bunch of girls. When you go out together, do you get HIT ON much? 

This writer, i.e. moi, was driving along the motorway at the time, and 
most of the reply Julie Corletto gave was rendered inaudible by the 
sudden explosion of guffawing from the three chaps in the Breenmobile. 
But I don't think she handled it very well. Perhaps she was 
preoccupied, trying to hold her husband back from dealing out a bit of 
summary justice to "the mouthy midget". 

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3/16/13

Here's an NBR article on the goon. Some great readers' comments...
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/could-you-manage-tony-veitch-132757