Fuck our legal system

[Road kill]

Home detention isn't a punishment. It's a vacation. I don't understand New Zealands obsession with home detention for serious crimes. Back home you'll get home detention (and in most cases theyll cuff an ankle bracelet on you just to make sure you don't leave) if you're on bail for money laundering or some other white collar crap.

Getting caught driving drunk is a minimum 6 month license suspension and 10,000$. Just for driving drunk. Add in hitting somebody, causing am amputation, you'd be sitting in the pen for a good 1-2 years at mimimum on top of paying reparations.

As somebody who's only been in the country 4-5 years myself, if I had been stupid enough to do something like that, I would fully expect to be deported after a lengthy stint in jail.


Slightly off topic, but how exactly did the motorcyclist get hit? I regularly drive the length southern motorway home after 10pm, and even if the car had it's lights off, I can't see how you wouldn't see the other guy coming. The motorway is extremely well lit, you can see ages ahead of you, and it's 3 lanes the entire way.

Not knockin the guy that got hit or sayin it's his fault or anything like that. Just tryin to figure out how the poor guy got had his life drastically changed. I'd rather not run into the same situation

People go where they look.

That's how he would of got hit,both the car driver and the rider would of been looking at each other.

Any thing odd, look for the way out not at what you want to avoid.

[RDJ]

Agreed. He got himself into a situation where he was not in control of his actions. The problem is that he didn't have people around him to stop him from driving.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Did he or did he not pour alcohol down his own throat? And the problem is some third parties did not stop him from driving? Sheesh.

[nathanwhite]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Did he or did he not pour alcohol down his own throat? And the problem is some third parties did not stop him from driving? Sheesh.

True, that could be phrased better.

He got himself into a situation where he was not in control of his actions. Adding to the problem is the fact that he didn't have anyone around to stop him from driving.

I was not trying to suggest that he did not cause the problem. Rather the situation could have been avoided had he had a peer group to stop him

[Akzle]

Rather the situation could have been avoided had he had a peer group to stop him

...OR,
NZ could convert to islam, then alcohol wouldnae be available... then all the poor black folk would have to find something else to spend their dole on....

[Brett]

...OR,
NZ could convert to islam, then alcohol wouldnae be available... then all the poor black folk would have to find something else to spend their dole on....

Yeah...'cause that's exactly what this world needs...MORE fundamentalists wanting to slit our western throats and blow up every structure within sight for suggesting that they live like a pack of dogs. There won't be anything left to blow up soon!

[Akzle]

Yeah...'cause that's exactly what this world needs...MORE fundamentalists wanting to slit our western throats and blow up every structure within sight for suggesting that they live like a pack of dogs. There won't be anything left to blow up soon!

you agree too! excellent. i'll send the petition your way!

[RDJ]

...OR,
NZ could convert to islam, then alcohol wouldnae be available...

Hmmm... check out how the so-called adherents of Islam behave wrt alcohol once they're out of sight of the religious police...

[Akzle]

Hmmm... check out how the so-called adherents of Islam behave wrt alcohol once they're out of sight of the religious police...

that'd be the difference between "so called adherence" and "adherence"
thing is, if the "judeo-christian right" in this country adhered to their religious principals, if we went back to being the god-fearing citizens envisioned by the founding forbears, there'd be a lot less tom-fuckery aswell.

[RDJ]

that'd be the difference between "so called adherence" and "adherence"
thing is, if the "judeo-christian right" in this country adhered to their religious principals, if we went back to being the god-fearing citizens envisioned by the founding forbears, there'd be a lot less tom-fuckery aswell.

Very true. OTOH the Judeo-Christian right are not so much decapitating people, lapidating adulteresses, shooting teenage girls in the head for contrary views and so forth as do the adherents of the Religion Of Peace (TM). Plus, anyone can visit Rome. Mecca, not. IOW, these not the droids of moral equivalence you are looking for...

[Akzle]

Very true. OTOH the Judeo-Christian right are not so much decapitating people, lapidating adulteresses, shooting teenage girls in the head for contrary views and so forth as do the adherents of the Religion Of Peace (TM). Plus, anyone can visit Rome. Mecca, not. IOW, these not the droids of moral equivalence you are looking for...

sorry, remind me again what the judeo-christians have been doing in iraq, afghanistan for the last decade or two?

but that's okay a'cause we only drop "smart" bombs on hospitals, eh? and we're SO humane, since "banning" cluster munition...

what makes you think it's your fucken right to dictate how another country (outside even your government's jurisdiction) should govern itself?

[RDJ]

sorry, remind me again what the judeo-christians have been doing in iraq, afghanistan for the last decade or two?

Sure, especially since you asked so nicely. You will have seen the purple thumbs pix yes? when more than 10 million men and women registered to vote in Afghanistan’s first ever democratic election.

Not done without cost...

[Akzle]

Sure, especially since you asked so nicely. You will have seen the purple thumbs pix yes? when more than 10 million men and women registered to vote in Afghanistan’s first ever democratic election.

Not done without cost...

because democracy works so well everywhere else.

so remind me again what authority gave you jurisdiction over the middle east?

[scumdog]

because democracy works so well everywhere else.

so remind me again what authority gave you jurisdiction over the middle east?

Listen to him people, Akzle knows EVERYTHING and 'what-should-be done.

[Akzle]

Listen to him people, Akzle knows EVERYTHING and 'what-should-be done.

you guys should listen to him on this one. (only this one)

[Banditbandit]

There are an awful lot of inmates who would completely disagree with you.

Of course there will be - home detention is always going to be better than actual jail time ... yopu get to shag the missus for a start ..

But that does not mean that Home D is a vacation ...