A group stands round a damaged car in Hyde St, Dunedin. Photo: Peter McIntosh
Police said they received a phone call from someone who saw a group of four or five people jumping on a parked car. The caller initially said they thought the group were gang members, but later said to ignore that, as they had only "looked like a gang", a spokeswoman said.
Instead the caller thought they were a group of students.
When the Otago Daily Times arrived at the scene this afternoon, police were leaving and the group was standing sheepishly around a badly dented red sedan.
They rejected a suggestion a gang had damaged their car.
They said they owned the car, it was not warranted and soon for the scrap yard, and suggested they had done the damage.
