SHOCK HORROR – NZ TEENAGERS DO STUPID THINGS – STOP THE PRESSES!
They deserved to die because ‘Respect my authority’ – take a bow muddle Nu Zilind
It’s a difficult week for many NZers – apparently this is the first time in recorded history that Kiwis have had to consider that teenagers do stupid things that are ill thought out.
Social media feeds have been swamped by NZers asking ‘but why were those 3 teenagers driving a stolen car’, as if that is some sort of intelligent response to a police chase policy and culture that is totally fucked up and continues killing more and more NZers.
We simply can not juggle multiple ideas that social policy must protect life over property, that teenagers do stupid things and that changing our chase policy – AS MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE – to only chasing violent offenders is too much for your ordinary Kiwi to comprehend all at the same time.
It’s almost as if we are asking the state to feed kids at schools and we know how hateful NZers are about that idea. Better the children of the poor starve at school than we let the parents off the hook and feed them. Similarly, it’s far better teenagers die in Police chases than teenagers think they can break the law and get away with it.
Thankfully for our low horizon imaginations we can wrap ourselves warmly in the blanket of denial by asserting a stolen car is worth dying over because ‘respect my authority’.
Take a bow NZ. Top effort and intellectual skills on display.
It isn’t just the temporarily delinquent teenager at the wheel, and it isn’t just his passengers . It is everyone else on the road and around it that the police put at risk to stamp the superiority of their driving skills. They should snap a photo if it can be done from stationary. Maybe more speed cameras in built up areas.
D J S
Our young people are being deliberately dumbed down and they are being deliberately targeted with technology by Government agencies and corporations.
It isn’t our children who are irresponsible. Let’s take a good look at who’s responsible. Let’s look at the system controlling the slaves from birth to death.
Let’s start in the middle with WiFi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9bdU_uw2Dc
Then we can double back to the birthing slave system.
Our children need our protection.
It’s been an ongoing thing, police accessing information with out the proper warrant and over sight then retrospectively okaying illegal behaviour by authorities. We’re still waiting for answers. None of the perps are forth coming- https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/10/28/questions-the-media-need-to-ask-westpac-dirty-politics-5-0/
There are high value heads that don’t want public scrutiny. Plenty of scalps for a new political movement wanting to make a name for themselves.
How cruel & callous for the police to lay down spikes so the car would slow down. The spikes caused the tyres to blow, the car to swerve & crash, so three young people died. Who is defending police action in this case? Or for police to chase for minor offences?
If anyone is playing with fire on this occasion, it is the police. We need a more mature caring society where this sort of police playfulness is illegal & young people’s lives are respected. Sympathy & condolences to the families& friends of the dead.
These were not one-off naughty boys. From stuff: “It is understood the three boys had regularly stolen cars throughout the city in recent months.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/109979270/teen-killed-in-crash-named-after-uncle-who-shot-dead-nz-cricketing-greats-son
How come so many pakeha think cars and material possession are more important than a persons life. Can someone please answer this as its pissing me of when I see all the trash talk about how those 3 boys deserved to die.
Actually – we’re other people’s lives ahead of those who endanger them.
Picture a spring evening with a bunch of kids at the local rugby ground getting into touch practice. Picture a Mum spectator under the trees with a picnic blanket and a chilly bin of food and drink. Perfect.
Then look at the other two 3 (or so) year olds sitting there playing on gaming devices. Sad.
It is so disgusting, we need to stop this now!
They are kids, kids do stupid things.
Perhaps it’s the extreme danger thrill seekers engage in, that shocks muddle no zland. No brain no pain, except there is huge pain, something most young’uns no nothing about, then they die. Why blame Police for an idiots brainless actions. 16 or 20 or whatever, it doesn’t matter, why drive so fast in ChCh CBD ? Don’t know what can happen aye! I’m sorry for the family’s left behind the carnage.
If manslaughter is the reckless indifference to whether an action causes a person to live or die, wasn’t the outcome of this chase ‘manslaughter’ ?
No.
What would you be saying if these three kids had, after missing a turn because of high speed, driven through a house killing the occupants?
BTW, the road spikes used generally don’t cause accidents.
They have.
They even stopped chasing these kids who went on to kill themselves. Thankfully, they didn’t kill anyone else in their suicide.
Give them a Darwin Award and move on.
Weren’t you and I kids at one stage in our lives, Draco? I suspect we both did some pretty dumb things before our brains matured.
I wasn’t stealing cars and driving around @~130km/h in 50km/h zones.
stop your fake outrage
really Andrew now your advocating violence, giving them a good hiding and who would do this the mother was solo for 2 brothers, kids especially teenagers don’t always listen to their parents and you cant always blame the parent/s many try to do there bests.