blakamin: Justice might be blind, but she sure as hell isn't broke.

Geektastic:

KiwiNZ:

Geektastic: Another strange example of no consequences was on TV last night.

On Police 10-7, a woman had a major crash on the motorway in Auckland because she was stoned.

No one was killed - or greatly injured, miraculously, but she was found to be under the influence of something unspecified (in the program - I am sure they knew what it was after the blood test) and yet.. she was discharged without conviction. WTF?!

cf Australia, with roadside drug testing and so on. Time we woke up a bit.

One cannot make a judgement based on a TV entertainment programme.

I think I can make a judgment that a stoned person who crashes a car in which there are passengers, which swerves across 3 lanes of speeding traffic after hitting the median barrier then hits the hard shoulder barrier and ends up rolling down the shoulder and coming to rest on it's roof should, at the very least, be convicted of dangerous driving......

networkn: Well two staff have resigned over this because they had made a recommendation that the infringement wasn't serious enough to impact 16 other kids, that other punishment equally punitive could be applied that didn't impact the others, and the Principle turned up with a lawyer and tried to override it, and from my conversation with someone who was involved in the fringes, it was on those teachers encouragement that the matter got legal.

There is a fair bit of information missing from this reporting from what I understand, and it's been portrayed the way it has to get the exact reaction of outrage which sells newspapers so easily. 

Regardless it's all got a fair bit out of hand, it's hard to believe this is even a national issue that has everyones attention so vividly. It's shows what a small (minded) country we are.

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blakamin: Justice might be blind, but she sure as hell isn't broke.

Do you mean "broken" or "bankrupt"?