Helen in high speed road race! Innocent lives in danger

[Krayy]

It appears that the prosecution is calling 31 witnesses! the trial is expected to take 2 weeks. All this for a dangerous charge?
The police bosses are really out to hang these guys aren't they?
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Just out of interest, why would all these guys fall on their swords anyway? If convicted, their police careers would be effectively over wouldn't they? Or are there 5 new plain clothes roles, and 1 DPS admin role that have just opened up in the last couple of months?

[WINJA]

ITS HARD TO BELIEVE ALL THIS SPEEDING IS BAD BULLSHIT WHEN THE PEOPLE THAT SHOULD KNOW BETTER DONT ADHERE TO THE RULES , HELEN WOULD KNOW HOW FAST SHE WAS GOING AND THE PERSON WITH THE COUNTRYS TOP JOB SHOULD HAVE SAID HEY DRIVER WE HAVE LAWS IN THIS COUTRY BUT SHE DIDNT , THE DRIVERS IN THAT MOTORCADE SHOULD BE PROSOCUTED TO THE MAX , FUCKEM HOW CAN PIGS HAND OUT SPEEDING TICKETS WHEN THEY DO THIS SORT OF SHIT IN THEIR UNWARRENTED CARS

[Ixion]

Bit of a shit position for the driver to be in though. On the one hand your boss telling you that the Prime Minister, no less, has ordered you to get to the destination by X oclock. If you get there late you'll be in the poo and probably lose your job.. But if you get there on time by driving fast, you're in the poo anyway. What's the driver to do ?

[Wolf]

Many politicians bleat on about how we need to take responsibility for our own actions, and I agree with them. Shouldn't the PM take responsibility for hers, instead of blaming it on the people who are paid to protect her and follow her instructions? Wouldn't you just love to have her as your boss? She has a habit of dropping 'employees' in the shit to protect her reputation.

To be a politician - even a low ranking one reading a newspaper while driving - is to be immune to responsibility. You can pass a new law that effectively halves the wages of several thousand employees, placing them below the "poverty line"; you can make changes that result in hundreds of people losing their jobs - and not need to be responsible for any of the lives you've ruined. You can break the law and get away with it. And you can pass a law that makes anyone who holds any flavour of electrical registration personally responsible for death or injury caused by electricity on any site they have visited.

When I held my A cert, I was informed that if I went to a site that had power cables all over the floor and too many multipoint boxes I had to fill in a form and notifiy the office manager to get it fixed or I would be held liable for any death or injury caused by said cables/multiboxes - all this if I had just popped in to fix a minor computer issue.

Dictated by politicians who don't feel they should even face criminal charges for reading a newspaper whilst driving...

[crazylittleshit]

I don't see what all the fuss is about,apart from media hype.I think a Police or armed forces escort for our head of state should be free to speed if necessary,this could be a situation of national (or Labour?) importance - called it a training exercise and close the lid.

You must remeber that these people are not speeding to save lives there speeding to catch a plane.
Plain and simple how ever told the driver to speed up should take the ticket helen Inculded.
come on nearly everyone here has a ticket why can't helen?

[WINJA]

What's the driver to do ?

OBET THE LAW THEN KICK UP A STINK WHEN YOUR FIRED, I PUT MY JOB ON THE LINE TO DO THE RIGHT THING

[Lou Girardin]

I'm interested to know if the Police and/or Ministerial drivers have told Pollies that they will no longer break road laws for their passengers.

[Pixie]

To be a politician - even a low ranking one reading a newspaper while driving - is to be immune to responsibility. .

Adolf Hitler didn't need to kill himself...He just needed to claim he was in the back of a car reading during WW2
I'm going to e-mail Saddam

[Lou Girardin]

It was reported that a Diplomatic Protection cops has been charged with 12 counts of "aiding dangerous driving". He must have given the directions after being told by Helen's flunky.
It just gets worse for the Prime Mongrel really, does she really think that we believe she didn't order it directly or indirectly?

[Jantar]

The driver of a ministerial car is allowed to speed when on urgent public duty. The big question here is "What is so urgent about catching a plane to a rugby match when there was another plane 35 minutes later that would also have arrived in Wellington on time."

Despite comments to the contrary, I believe Helen when she said that she had no idea how fast they were travelling. After all, she has no idea abount most things that happen in New Zealand.

[badlieutenant]

who really gives a toss. Waste of tax payers money taking it to court as it will change very little and cost alot. And we all wish it was us who could just speed and get away with it.
Is this the dirtiest dirt on our PM? jesus im not going to vote for her, shes too boring. Bring back muldoon, zap him back to health and give him full power like in the good old days.........oh but put him and roger in the same locked room for an hour and put it on pay TV