NZ man ordered to leave US after attacking child in doorbell prank incident

In the quiet rhythms of a Salt Lake City neighborhood, a childhood prank became the fulcrum upon which one man's anger tipped into violence and, ultimately, exile. A 59-year-old New Zealand resident responded to a doorbell-ditching game with pursuit, assault, and forcible detention of a 12-year-old boy — acts that courts have now answered with jail time, probation, and deportation. The case is a reminder that the line between irritation and criminality is crossed not by circumstance, but by choice.