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Thread ID: 107507 2010-02-19 01:39:00 This is ridiculous. martynz (5445) PC World Chat
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859829 2010-02-19 01:39:00 www.stuff.co.nz

Surely the police have powers to deal with drunks in public without going to these extremes?
I will get a frisson in continuing to take a glass or two of wine across the road from my house to sit on the beach watching the sunset knowing I am committing an offence.
What prats these councillors are.

Martynz
martynz (5445)
859830 2010-02-19 02:45:00 If the locals wind up getting compulsorily sober, Whelington will be abandoned and empty by lunchtime. ;) R2x1 (4628)
859831 2010-02-19 03:17:00 These liquor bans are starting to get a bit close to home. Personally I ignore them anyway like last weekend had a few woodies at Piha about 5 metres from a sign. prefect (6291)
859832 2010-02-19 03:41:00 The New Puritans are slowly but surely taking away our freedoms one by one under the guise of fear and shame and general wowserism just like the religious nuts of the past, don't they know that perfection is the enemy of good. zqwerty (97)
859833 2010-02-19 04:17:00 "last weekend had a few woodies at Piha about 5 metres from a sign."
I'm sure you couldn't stop yourself prefect.
Was the sign banning woodies?
Thats a bit much with all those female lifesavers running around. Any Pamela Anderson lookalikes?

Martynz

Martynz.
martynz (5445)
859834 2010-02-19 06:22:00 No but the people mover next to us had some grossly obese island ladies in shorts. prefect (6291)
859835 2010-02-19 06:52:00 These liquor bans are starting to get a bit close to home. Personally I ignore them anyway like last weekend had a few woodies at Piha about 5 metres from a sign.

Breaking the law = ten years jail for you (on your third strike). I think Sensible Sentencing are behind these liquor bans - Puritans United we call them.

Zero tolerance in West Auckland I say - but this ban they want to bring to Wellington is uncivilised, no more supping a chardonnay at Scorching Bay - what a tragedy.
Twelvevolts (5457)
859836 2010-02-19 07:03:00 You would have to say throwing a beer down your neck in a liquor ban zone is a victimless crime. prefect (6291)
859837 2010-02-19 07:07:00 No but the people mover next to us had some grossly obese island ladies in shorts.

Whatever turns you on prefect.

Martynz
martynz (5445)
859838 2010-02-19 08:08:00 Meh, I knew those brown bags I get from the liquor store with Jim Beam flasks would come in handy one day.

Liquor bans don't mean an awful lot to me, really needs to be a different approach, eg drunken disorderly in public, etc.

Several times I've walked from central chch, to home in Linwood (don't live there anymore), drunk as a skunk, and still drinking. Never got picked up for it, despite breaching the ban.
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