Surely this is not legal - shame on the cops

[ready4whatever]

Shes already been set a court date. I think theres no reason for the police to stick their noses in any more

[LBD]

Least corrupt country in the world. Yeah, right.

This is not a corrupt action....what the police /Air NZ did, is not right, but not corrupt...

This is an example of why NZ is recognised as least corrupt...everyone sticking their nose into everyone elses business....dobbing people in when it is none of their business....neighbours watching over the fence, watch dog committees set up to watch....you cannot get away with anything.

Still love NZ however...

[Usarka]

Drunk flight attendants are the most fun. Cop was just bitter that he didn't score a blowy.

[Insanity_rules]

The police gained my repect and then lost it again a little while ago. They have a hard job but quite often dont get it right, go too far or just completely muck it up.

[Forest]

This is not a corrupt action....what the police /Air NZ did, is not right, but not corrupt...

This is an example of why NZ is recognised as least corrupt...everyone sticking their nose into everyone elses business....dobbing people in when it is none of their business....neighbours watching over the fence, watch dog committees set up to watch....you cannot get away with anything.

Still love NZ however...

You should try Switzerland.

When I lived there, it was against the law to hang out your washing to dry unless it was an approved day of the week. Your neighbours would report you to the authorities if you put out the washing on a non-approved day.

I'm not joking about this.

[Mully]

I can see a flip side to this.

The Police obviously knew she worked for an airline, but probably didn't know what she did.

If A Pilot flew drunk then hundreds of people could be killed. There are greater issues of public safety that the Police reasonably considered.

A female pilot?

Now you need to be breath tested.......

[cowboyz]

I can see a flip side to this.

The Police obviously knew she worked for an airline, but probably didn't know what she did.

If A Pilot flew drunk then hundreds of people could be killed. There are greater issues of public safety that the Police reasonably considered.

she was a woman! That alone should tell you she was lucky to be driving a car. Theres no one in their right mind going to let her drive an airplane!

This is typical sensationalism. A DIC conviction for say blowing 420 is a shitload different from blowing 1000 for example. One being slightly over the limit at which an adult is concidered capable of sagfely driving a vehicle the other clearly being double it. yep both are over but the lower is a mistake the other clearly not

exactly! She may have been a little hungover, or maybe even been fine and just resudal from the night before. Way over the top! far too many rules and people sticking their nose in in NZ!

[LBD]

You should try Switzerland.

When I lived there, it was against the law to hang out your washing to dry unless it was an approved day of the week. Your neighbours would report you to the authorities if you put out the washing on a non-approved day.

I'm not joking about this.

I know your not Joking ...Depends on whose calculations you look at,...(Forbes) has NZ, Switzerland, Danmark, Sweden and Singapore as the least corrupt....and amongst the most corrupt is the tiny central Asian republic of Kyrgyzsatan....where speeding fines are 300 som spot fines that do not get to see the inside of the govt coffers. (Check out where I live)

[scissorhands]

They will often let you off if you are polite, they like your attitude, and your driving or vehicle is of no interest to them....imagine all the drongoes they have to deal with

[Lias]

Personally I think they should publish the names of every single drunk driver on the front page of the paper, and on giant roadside billboards but hey thats just me.

[Indoo]

She may have been a little hungover, or maybe even been fine and just resudal from the night before.

You don't blow over 400 from being 'fine' and just having a wee bit of residual alcohol in your system and it would be absolutely impossible to blow over the next morning if you had only had 5 drinks over 5 hours the previous night which in itself probably wouldn't have put her over the limit even if she had driven immediately afterwards.

[nudemetalz]

Would we still feel sorry for her if she had an accident while drunk and killed a motorcyclist?

[sidecar bob]

This is typical sensationalism. A DIC conviction for say blowing 420 is a shitload different from blowing 1000 for example. One being slightly over the limit at which an adult is concidered capable of sagfely driving a vehicle the other clearly being double it. yep both are over but the lower is a mistake the other clearly not

You have obviously never played around with a Police issue Alcatec when you have been on the piss.
Anyone that blows 400 knows damn well that they are pissed & shouldnt be driving & deserve to be busted.

[White trash]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3085...iver-to-Air-NZ

OK. You're on your way to work after a hard night on the Raz, you get pulled through a checkpoint and blow well over the legal limit.

Is it safe for you to be operating a fork hoist in that condition?

Look at it from the reverse, one of your family members is killed while at work by someone driving a forkhoist still pissed from the night before. Turns out the cops did him for DIC on the way to work yet didn't inform his employer that he was unfit to work as they'd read a thread on KB saying that it shouldn't be legal for them to so. You cool with that?

Sorry big fella, I fully support them notifying an employer that someone's been done DIC on their way to work.

[kwaka_crasher]

OK. You're on your way to work after a hard night on the Raz, you get pulled through a checkpoint and blow well over the legal limit.

Is it safe for you to be operating a fork hoist in that condition?

Look at it from the reverse, one of your family members is killed while at work by someone driving a forkhoist still pissed from the night before. Turns out the cops did him for DIC on the way to work yet didn't inform his employer that he was unfit to work as they'd read a thread on KB saying that it shouldn't be legal for them to so. You cool with that?

Sorry big fella, I fully support them notifying an employer that someone's been done DIC on their way to work.

Forklifts? Cripes. There's obviously much more to being an Air Waitress than I realised!