Sunday, February 28, 2010

The headline:


Two die on roads


"A young man has been killed after he fell from a car and it ran him over on a beach near Tauranga early this morning.

The 22-year-old local man had been riding on the outside of the car on Omanu beach in Mount Maunganui about 1am, Senior Sergeant Carl Purcell of Tauranga police said..."

FAIL!

It was a beach- NOT a road.

If the MSM can't get the little things right- how can we trust them with the big stories?


oh!- thats right....


3 comments:

Oii said...

Sorry Os,
from Land Transport act

road includes—

(a) a street; and

(b) a motorway; and

(c) a beach; and

(d) a place to which the public have access, whether as of right or not; and

etc - etc

Oswald Bastable said...

Bugger!

Murray said...

Yeah sorry dude, for legal definitions the beach is a road. Of course they're not treated like roads or ever have the rule enforced.

Hence the "we're not on a road so i can ride on top of this car with impunity".

Cept the laws of physics favor enforcement over rehabilitation.