Surely this is not legal - shame on the cops

[Indiana_Jones]

I used to respect the police and the job they did. Now they are fast becoming only revenue collectors and harrasment officials. I'm rarely even polite to them now.

Same here.

Granted you're average cunt on the beat isn't all bad, I just think NZ cops don't know the meaning of the word "discretion"

-Indy

[White trash]

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

Not really. Big Dan's not charged with assisting 200 panicking pasengers escape a burning aircraft within 30 seconds during an emergency. I can't even tie my shoelaces when I'm half cut, let alone find an emergancy exit.

The potential for some serious shit to go wrong is exactly the same.

Also, another point is as follows. If she's iresponsible enough to drive while drunk (and don't tell me it's hard to know), how responsible and dedicated to her job is she? Frankly I wouldn't put up with my staff turning up to work pissed, and I'd be thankfull the police notified me.

[Indiana_Jones]

How about the cops tell her employer that she's also a rug muncher and preys to false idols in her free time.

For safety and all that

-Indy

[ready4whatever]

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

Haha. She might spill water on one of the customers. Sure she can misguide people on how to buckle up their seatbelt or miss an order with them cheap cookies. worse thing i can think of is she trips up and pushes the 'dive bomb' button. or kicks a hole in the plane with a stiletto

I'd understand if she guided the plane in from base. The cops pissed she didnt put out more than a high reading..

Not really. Big Dan's not charged with assisting 200 panicking pasengers escape a burning aircraft within 30 seconds during an emergency. I can't even tie my shoelaces when I'm half cut, let alone find an emergancy exit.

If your heading down to earth in a burning jet plane, your screwed anyway. What can ya do

[FROSTY:Me]

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.

Actually mate--Honest story here.
A few years back I was sober driver for a bunch of my mates. We were out going to the pub then on to cause a bit of strife in a local club or two.
I was at that stage a teetotaler (didn't drink at all)
One of my "freinds" thought it would be a huge joke to get ol Frosty pissed.So over the course of a couple of hours he was getting me fruit juice with a lil "extra"
It backfired on us when In transit we got pulled over and I blew 420 (or whatever fuck all over the limit is)
I had no idea I was even slightly under the influence so told the cops i had not been drinking booze.

Ohh and heres the kicker. My mate without prompting by me fessed up to me THEN later also stood up in court and fessed up to the judge.
Perhaps his honesty could be a lesson to Yamaha 600/1000 riders wearing white boots.

[sidecar bob]

Perhaps his honesty could be a lesson to Yamaha 600/1000 riders wearing white boots.

White boots?? surely nobody would do that, thats an open admission of homosexuality.

[cowboyz]

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.

what about if your local bike shop mechanic goes out on the piss and goes to work hungover and forgets to tighen your front wheel and it falls off and you are riding home

I vote for prohibition! Its the only way.

seriously. fine, if she was unfit to work then send her home on a sick day. losing her job is OTT!

[White trash]

what about if your local bike shop mechanic goes out on the piss and goes to work hungover and forgets to tighen your front wheel and it falls off and you are riding home

I vote for prohibition! Its the only way.

seriously. fine, if she was unfit to work then send her home on a sick day. losing her job is OTT!

Fine, losing her job is OTT, but if the cops hadn't told her employer, she would have gone to work anyway.

Beef should be with Air New Zealand, not the cops for informing them.

[Ixion]

Which would maybe be arguable EXCEPT for this

Just under two weeks after the flight attendant was caught, and before she had appeared in court or been convicted, police contacted Air NZ, providing her breath-test reading (but not her name) and offering to discuss the matter and reveal further details if required.

So the cops DIDN'Tcontact her employers as concerned public spirited etc, when she was caught over the limit.

They waited two weeks THEN dobbed her in.

One thing to call and say "Ah, look, we've just now stopped one of your flight attendants, and she's intoxicated. Dunno if you want her flying like that". And another thing entirely to call and say "Two weeks ago we stopped one of your etc".

Hard to see any public need justification two weeks after the event.

[Forest]

According to the article, she lost her job five months after the drink driving incident.

You can't tell me that Air NZ didn't provide her with due process.

[McWild]

She drove drunk.

Fuck her.

[SPman]

If you read the article you will see that she was ON her way to work.
Do you want a drunk air hostess looking after you in a safety situation in the air?

And also note her name was only released once the airline made a request under the Official Information Act.

And the police divulged it immediately. Ever tried to get stuff under the OIA"let alone the names of people who are yet to go to court"! - it can take bloody ages - unless you're a big company, obviously!

She drove drunk.

Fuck her.

So - that gives the police the right to play fast and loose with private information at their whim? Perhaps one of the cops tried the second item and she told him likewise!

[caseye]

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.

Man are you for real?
They'd know to the nenth degree what she did where she did it and for how long, long before they told on her. I sincerely hope the officers involved are strung up.

[scissorhands]

Leave the poor cops alone. What a cunt of a job having to deal with this shit, like guilty fuckers getting off on a technicality because they wrote the date wrong. 420 reading on the way to operating part of a plane. I congradulate them for making my world a safer place.


Imported Czech lager Budejovicky Budvar only $11.99 a six pack @ foodtown this week. Its actually quite good and a nice change from Becks

[caseye]

Leave the poor cops alone. What a cunt of a job having to deal with this shit, like guilty fuckers getting off on a technicality because they wrote the date wrong. 420 reading on the way to operating part of a plane. I congradulate them for making my world a safer place.


Imported Czech lager Budejovicky Budvar only $11.99 a six pack @ foodtown this week. Its actually quite good and a nice change from Becks

So she wasn't convicted of any crime when the Police told her employers, she did not continue on to her work that day, she went home.Rang in sick.
Your'e telling me it's OK with you that the Police can do this sort of thing without a conviction or thought that their equipment might be faulty, remember that if they can do it, you and I can too!
That where you want your personal information, the public arena.