Another Nasty One: Follow-up

[spudchucka]

anyone recklessly using a motor vehicle that causes grevious injury or death should be given hell. Shouldn't matter who where when or what (I suspect that our justice system would agree if you read in to it).... but thats doesn't seem to be reflected in whats going on (people getting off lightly, not being arrested when charged twice previously for the same offence). for instance, the guy who killed the biker on symonds st was charged that MORNING with not having a licence.. what the heck was going on that he could get behind the wheel again?

do the cops have the power to arrest people driving without licences? if not, they should... if so, WHY THE HECK DIDN'T THEY!?

Driving without a licence will cost you $400 worth of instant fine. You will also be "forbidden to drive" until you obtain a current licence. If you get caught driving while forbidden you will get arrested and the car impounded. Driving while forbidden carries a maximum $10,00 fine but in most cases the offender is convicted and discharged (no penalty). If a person gets locked up for driving while forbidden they will certainly get bail (as there is no term of imprisonment) and there is nothing to stop them from going out and getting behind the wheel of another vehicle.

[Lou Girardin]

Marmoot, redneck is also a generic term of abuse for people that have feel they have genuine concerns. Perhaps you notice abuse more in Auckland because most Asians have moved here, so that the Asian proportion of the population has gone from insignificant to 20% in 10 years or so. That's a huge change in a short time and is why people react the way they do. No Asian country, to my knowledge, would have allowed the same unfettered access.