In NZ, drunk drivers treated better than young drivers:

Posted on June 14, 2013 by KG

Better to be a drunk driver than a young driver, in NZ. Idiot bureaucrats penalise a young worker, make exceptions for drunk drivers.

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5 Responses to In NZ, drunk drivers treated better than young drivers:

  1. countenance says:
    June 14, 2013 at 11:17

    Let me make this nice and easy for you.

    17-year old can’t vote.

    People popped for DUIs (middle aged men) can and do vote.

    In New Zealand, I bet a lot of DUI cases are Maori, in which case they’re too PC to touch.

    • Odayu-sen says:
      June 14, 2013 at 12:39

      My 18-year-old daughter will face this problem when she gets her driver’s licence. It will make it hard for her to drive the 7 km home through the suburbs after 10:00 p.m. from the restaurant where she works part time to pay off her student loan.
      You’d think they’d have an exception for commuters.

      • KG says:
        June 14, 2013 at 13:10

        Given the number of violent assaults in NZ for things as trivial as wearing the wrong colour shirt, you’d expect the safety of young workers returning home at night to be a high priority.
        And it’s not as though many of the imported taxi drivers can be trusted, either…….
        But then, commonsense was never a strong point of bureaubastards. :evil:

      • Richard says:
        June 14, 2013 at 13:35

        My sister used to be in the same situation as a nurse, occasionally being rostered on night shift, before she got her full license. At the time you could apply for an exemption based on work needs – check with your local official licensing office (i.e. not the AA or other agencies – go direct to the authoritative source).

  2. Darin says:
    June 14, 2013 at 13:33

    What a crack pot idea,how do they ever expect kids to become adults?Furthermore if she were my daughter and was being forced to walk home alone at night,she would be armed and the law be dammed.

    The idiocy of letting a DUI case slide is a whole other level of stupidity.20 years ago some friends of mine where going home from church and were T-boned by a drunk driver.He walked away,but my friends,husband,wife and three children aged 4,6 and 10 all died on the scene.A whole family wiped out in an instant and the ass—- who did it had seven felony DUI convictions in four years and was still out roaming the streets. :evil: The bastard did finally get 20 years for vehicular homicide,but that was too little too late IMHO.