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| Thread ID: 85968 | 2007-12-29 00:48:00 | Penalty for breaching Alcohol ban means arrested? | lance4k (4644) | PC World Chat |
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| 625520 | 2007-12-29 00:48:00 | If you breach an alcohol ban on a beach does it mean you will be arrested and locked up then bailed? The nzherald quoted police as saying they arrested hundreds of people last year at beaches around nz on new years because they breached the alcohol ban. I thought you just get fined if you breach the ban? | lance4k (4644) | ||
| 625521 | 2007-12-29 00:59:00 | Drink on the beach and find out. Or don't drink booze on the beach. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 625522 | 2007-12-29 01:05:00 | i seem to recall they do chuck you in the can, and if you are a problem ( drunk or agressive) they sometimes charge you. its up to the discretion of the police at the time. Often they just inform you its a offence to drink here please move along...... ??? or maybe not. but if you break the law, be prepared for the consequences. best not to do something silly isnt it? :lol: beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 625523 | 2007-12-29 01:06:00 | There's probably an intermediate step between drinking and arrest - probably refusing to give your name or refusing to stop drinking or similar. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 625524 | 2007-12-29 01:19:00 | Based on policy as applied in previous years, if you carry alcohol into the booze-free zone you are arrested and put in the can, no option, no argument! It is the only way to stop the idiots who think the ban doesn't apply to them, or that they are too smart for the Police . Adding alcohol to soft drinks or carrying it in alternative containers are favourite ruses that get pictured in the papers every year - people being forced to tip their booze into the gutter at checkpoints or be arrested . Sneak it in (and get caught) and it is into the can without the option . I think glass containers are banned too, far too many kids get cut feet when the yobbos go round smashing them . Make a Policeman's day, comply with the law . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 625525 | 2007-12-29 06:34:00 | We did a case earlier this year for a chap arrested in Queenstown last New Years Eve for possession of alcohol in a liquor ban area. He was certainly arrested, taken away, processed (fingerprinted etc) then released on bail. All very lawful. Can't remember the end result but I think he eventually got diversion. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 625526 | 2007-12-29 07:19:00 | Yep, apparently so. Arrest is about all that happens. The stocks, flogging, keelhauling, using Vista etc. are out for the holiday season. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 625527 | 2007-12-29 08:40:00 | Yep, apparently so. Arrest is about all that happens. The stocks, flogging, keelhauling, using Vista etc. are out for the holiday season. Earlier in the year, when the liquor ban was still in place, we were walking from our vehicle to a BYO restaurant. Friend remarked that perhaps we shouldn't even be carrying the bottles in that area. Not sure what would have happened if we had been stopped. Thank goodness for large handbags being in vogue. Will be carrying mine on Monday night, I do want to avoid a flogging. Cheers, Marnie |
Marnie (4574) | ||
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