So I see on the Herald website that a woman has had her $128,000 Audi forefeited to the Crown for collecting too many cockles....and was fined a further $1,500.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in NZ, drivers placing the rest of us and our families at risk by driving drunk are likely to cop a fine of a couple of hundred dollars at most in many cases.
Just how is it that collecting shellfish attracts greater penalties than drink driving, burglary and so on?! She was not cited as collecting them for sale or anything either.
Seems completely bonkers.