WELLINGTON, NZ -- In a recent spate of women crying-out against stalkers, known Tawa stalker Steven Law, has retaliated. The 19yr old 'sleuth', as he prefers to be called, has cried outrage at numerous female comments about him and others of his kind.

The comments have reported to call stalkers "sick", "demented", "unyielding", and even "gay". All attributes Steven Law has refuted as lies.

"Look," said Steven in a very sensitive voice, "I am deeply wounded at such remarks. I am... not sick, nor am I a demented person. I have been to [psychologists] in the past just to clear up this issue with my friends, and each of them were very satisfied with my results, being 'the closest to sane as a person can get', to quote one of them. Unyielding? Well, it is a job of persistence, and if I did yield... early, then what kind of a sleuth am I?"

When asked about the 4th attribute mentioned, Steven merely flicked his hand downwards in an un-manly fashion and refused to comment.


The women involved in the issue are continuing to fight back; slowly gathering support for their anti-stalker cause. The group (which as of yet has no official title) was started about a month ago when their founder (who wishes to remain anonymous) was followed numerous times by Steven Law when walking her younger brother home from school. She had reported the incident to the authorities, but was displeased by the response received from the police.

"It always happened as I would take accompany my younger brother home from school. I'd tell the police, and they'd say things like: 'Nonsense! Steven's always hanging out at the YMCA, and helping out the young children at the kindergarten." They believed that such a charitable person was incapable of having a sick mind." she said.

The co-founder and spearhead of the group Gemma Shaw, student of law at the prestigious Victoria University of Wellington, was willing to make her voice heard.

"Look, it's uncomfortable having this sneaky guy follow you everywhere I go: home, work, school, women's toilets. It just leaves me feeling unsafe in my own town. Sometimes I would always walk home with some of my friends, especially the boys, in hope that they would scare him away. But there was Steven, always watching. It's frightening."


The complaint letters took a week before they were brought before a select committee. Members of the all-male committee were in a fuss about what action was to be taken.

"What I don't understand is why these women have to complain to us." said esteemed MP Mr. Nikabolikov.

"It's absolute rubbish." said Mr Pencilface. "Men will always want to be close to women. Some more so than others, and some with more women than others. I mean, it's a balance of nature issue here. They have their Feminist Action Groups (acronym FAG), they get to be pregnant, and they get to have a day-off from work almost every single month!

So what are we men left with? The short end of the stick! We have our racing cars, our computers, pimping, and we aren't complaining. Stalkers are just a lesser-known male group."


"Lesser-known?" Gemma retorted when EM news brought her the select committee transcript from the meeting. "Every woman knows how scared they are when we start being tailed by a second shadow."

The bulk of the letters accused Steven himself of being to present at any given time.

"No matter way I turn, Steven's always there. I was glad I was with my boyfriend at the time."


The most damaging letter, by another respondent, has also backed this up:

"That sick motherf****** is always looking in your f****** direction. You turn... into another street... and that f***** is f****** staring at you. F******* piece of s*** is everywhere. Can't a mother take her son outside without that f****** psycho on every godd***ed street corner?"


Michelle Sheriff, resident psychologist and friend to Gemma, took a more neutral stance on the issue.

"I don't want to say too much in fear of offending [Gemma], but I was one of the psychologists assigned to Steven's case. Everything pointed to him being a sane person and nothing else. Have they... talked to each other? After all, they are friends."


Gemma formally denied any relationship to Steven.


We brought all this new information before Steven for his reasoning and explanation.

"Yes," he started again in his very sensitive voice, "we stalkers are the lesser-known group of activities. And what all these women have said is true. We stalkers hold weekly meetings and plan schedules, so that there's always one of us out there at any given time. It is a full-proof system. Call us the 'guardian angels' of young b... I mean women's' interests."

"And no, I can't talk to her." continued Steven. "Sleuths are meant to be stealthy creatures of the night. Verbal communication is prohibited by our code. You've seen Phantom of the Opera haven't you?" he said as he started to flutter his eyelashes.


For further clarification into the depths of Steven's sleuthing, his protege, Emanuel Rabina, was willing to comment.

"Yeah, I... decided to join him for a while, maybe thought it was one of those really well though-out jokes you know. But then, when I went with him on some of his 'field-training' sessions, I got a bit concerned. Not for the girls, but for Steven's [methods]. I mean it would have made more sense to stalk a girl when she's by herself. I started to think it Steven had some sort of hidden agenda. And so I left.

"He hasn't stopped following me ever since. Revenge I guess."


Despite attempts by Steven and his comrades to douse public opinion of stalkers everywhere, the anti-stalker movement has continued to send its letters to government, this time focussing solely on Steven Law and his 'sleuthing' group, 'The Body Of Youth Escorts' (acronym BOYE).

Their grievances will be reviewed again later this week by another all-male select committee.
"Yeah, no women in this group again. We don't know where they've gone." said a concerned Mr Cornholio. "Must just be that time of month."