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Thread ID: 77200 2007-03-02 01:24:00 Should Rickards Keep His Job. Trev (427) PC World Chat
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529375 2007-03-05 04:12:00 For someone who was the "ringleader" in the sordid trio of feral Hyena's,I would think that the only suitable job for this person now is sewage treatment farm worker. Utopia (7787)
529376 2007-03-05 04:46:00 You've taken your family away for a weekend out of town.

....out in the wops.....it's 2am.

Kids are asleep, the love-of-your life is lying beside you ...all is good in the world.

You see a torchbeam outside in the bushes....three dodgy-looking fellas...yours is the only house around for miles.

Your family are about 5 mins away from God-only-knows-what!

You call the police.
Clint Rickard turns up.

I assume most of you will say "Nope. You had consensual sex 20 years ago. Go away!"

Correct?

Because Rickards is now incapable of doing his job, a job he has a huge amount of experience in. Experience that we should deprive from others because, unless I've missed something in the media, he had CONSENSUAL sex with someone.

Yeah, right.

The guy is built like a brick ....-house! If I need a cop to protect my family, I want him to turn up!
allblack (6574)
529377 2007-03-05 06:41:00 ..................................
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The guy is built like a brick ....-house! If I need a cop to protect my family, I want him to turn up!

He most likely will....if they put him back on the beat...........:rolleyes:
Terry Porritt (14)
529378 2007-03-05 06:47:00 You've taken your family away for a weekend out of town.

....out in the wops.....it's 2am.

Kids are asleep, the love-of-your life is lying beside you ...all is good in the world.

You see a torchbeam outside in the bushes....three dodgy-looking fellas...yours is the only house around for miles.

Your family are about 5 mins away from God-only-knows-what!

You call the police.
Clint Rickard turns up.

I assume most of you will say "Nope. You had consensual sex 20 years ago. Go away!"

Correct?


No, I'd run towards the 3 guys in the bush.
pctek (84)
529379 2007-03-05 06:47:00 You've taken your family away for a weekend out of town.

....out in the wops.....it's 2am.

Kids are asleep, the love-of-your life is lying beside you ...all is good in the world.

You see a torchbeam outside in the bushes....three dodgy-looking fellas...yours is the only house around for miles.

Your family are about 5 mins away from God-only-knows-what!

You call the police.
Clint Rickard turns up.

I assume most of you will say "Nope. You had consensual sex 20 years ago. Go away!"

Correct?

Because Rickards is now incapable of doing his job, a job he has a huge amount of experience in. Experience that we should deprive from others because, unless I've missed something in the media, he had CONSENSUAL sex with someone.

Yeah, right.

The guy is built like a brick ....-house! If I need a cop to protect my family, I want him to turn up!


The single biggest flaw in your plan is that the cops wont turn up at all. So, good luck with that.
Metla (12)
529380 2007-03-05 07:05:00 Yeah, well. I did think about that when I was typing it...but the gist was there! allblack (6574)
529381 2007-03-05 07:15:00 I think no as his credibility has been lost.

Trevor :)

Agreed.
winmacguy (3367)
529382 2007-03-05 08:39:00 Different scenario -

Your teenage daughter is drinking with big burly local cops - much older than her.

Group sex is proposed. It happens.
(This is the one he admitted to)

Do you decide that your daughter really had "consensual" sex?
Or were the odds loaded against her making a truly free choice?
Hardly an equal argument, eh?

Even if she did agree ( but later denied) young girls shouldn't be pressurised by any older men en masse - let alone cops.
These women were all kids - presumably chosen beause they'd be too scared to complain, thinking nobody would believe them.
Clint Rickards wasn't the worst - but certainly old enough to know better.

Sure, he may be a great cop in some respects.
But he's still a sleazebag.

So give him a job where he's not expected to typify the morals of the two & a half thousand others in the Auckland police district...
Laura (43)
529383 2007-03-05 09:54:00 Even the PM and Mayor Hubbard don't want him back in the job.

Trevor :)
Trev (427)
529384 2007-03-05 12:25:00 And he wouldn't have got to where he is without a certain level of competence.
My :2cents:

Feel free to pull it to shreds! :D
He may have been a very competent **se kisser.
The trouble with our court system is that it is not actually geared around finding out the truth. It is more like a comptetive debate. You just need to look at the number of people who have got off because of a miss step in the process when they have obviously been guilty.
I don't believe he can now hold the top Auckland job.
mikebartnz (21)
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