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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2023 14:18:24 GMT 12
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Post by OLD ROPE 👀 on Jan 22, 2023 15:23:44 GMT 12
don't worry the new PM Pris Napkin will fix it!?.... He need to if he wants some street cred! |
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Post by eri on Jan 23, 2023 19:41:22 GMT 12
since labour got in and asked costner to wokify police they have ignored young un-licensed guys on unwarranted, un-registered, stolen? bikes ignoring the road code in south auckland so why wouldn't everyone expect the police to ignore them everywhere all the time? Senior Sergeant Megan Te Aho says the riders in question are unlicensed and riding unregistered vehicles, without helmets or protective clothing.She says they've been found speeding down roads and footpaths throughout Kawerau, Ōpōtiki and Whakatāne and often fail to stop for Police when signalled.www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/23/surge-in-reckless-dirt-bikers-seen-across-bay-of-plenty/they must be so pissed that their cameras can't fine people on stolen bikes and they have to actually get in a police-car and do some policing |
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Post by eri on Jan 24, 2023 13:54:07 GMT 12
pre-jacinda central auckland was judged an exciting + vibrant place to life however with the covid lock-downs and lock-outs the students left and tourists stopped coming and the central city lost a third of its population then, like rotorua, jacinda's be kind to crime, seemed to bring a small army of homeless to queen street, with all their various personal and substance abuse issues the gov. was quick to put them into small apartments, that were empty due to there being no international students and holiday visa workers, and changed the tenancy laws to keep them there and closed the central police station the result? The joy of city centre life has faded for some Aucklanders, with a smaller proportion of downtown dwellers liking the experience due to issues like safety, crime and anti-social behaviour, according to a survey.The survey of almost 1000 of the estimated 38,000 residents found 55% liking city centre life, compared with 77% in a 2016 survey, while 34% disliked it, a big jump from the 8%, six years ago.The proportion who thought it likely they would still be living in the city centre in a year’s time, fell to 66% from the previous survey’s 77%.There are few surprises in the issues raised – with the two-year Covid-19 hit to the downtown area widely reported – and residents cited feeling unsafe (45%), crime and anti-social behaviour (36%) and the presence of people the residents feel uncomfortable being around (33%).www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/131039890/safety-dents-auckland-city-centre-dwellers-view-of-their-neighbourhoodaucklanders have done what they can be voting out the soft-on-crime mayor the ball is now in chippy's court to see if his reset can prevent the slide of the central city into a no-go slum if he can't, concerned auckland voters get to look for someone else to restore a sense of safety |
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Post by eri on Jan 26, 2023 18:33:34 GMT 12
my wife has started a part time job at countdown and is gobsmacked by the amount of food stolen everyday esp. the prime steaks sometimes they just load up a trolley and push it through the self-checkout area and give the finger to anyone who tries to stop them it's a small countdown so doesn't have permanent security staff, but even if it did they aren't apparently allowed to do much other than 'block'"A man is accused of urinating on an aisle worth of groceries in a supermarket, causing nearly $15,000 in damaged stock, before going on to try and steal more than $2000 worth of goods he’d put in his trolley.
Duchaan Peter Priestly Fraser had tried to leave with $2128 worth of food items from Countdown Te Rapa, in Hamilton, on January 22 this year, in one of the multiple alleged thefts from the supermarket.
As well as facing a charge of theft from that incident, he’s also accused of urinating on groceries in an aisle at the supermarket on the same day.
For those alleged actions he’s charged with doing an indecent act and intentional damage of grocery stock, causing a loss of $14,957 to Countdown Te Rapa.
The 31-year-old appeared in the Hamilton District Court this afternoon, also charged with theft of groceries worth $2800 two days earlier, and $1500 worth of groceries on December 31, last year, both of which are alleged to have also occurred at Countdown Te Rapa."www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/man-accused-of-urinating-on-goods-at-supermarket-causing-15k-loss/Q7IXC7JJPZFXBPAPFLXQD2X4GE/ |
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Post by fish on Jan 26, 2023 19:24:27 GMT 12
pre-jacinda central auckland was judged an exciting + vibrant place to life however with the covid lock-downs and lock-outs the students left and tourists stopped coming and the central city lost a third of its population then, like rotorua, jacinda's be kind to crime, seemed to bring a small army of homeless to queen street, with all their various personal and substance abuse issues the gov. was quick to put them into small apartments, that were empty due to there being no international students and holiday visa workers, and changed the tenancy laws to keep them there and closed the central police station the result? The joy of city centre life has faded for some Aucklanders, with a smaller proportion of downtown dwellers liking the experience due to issues like safety, crime and anti-social behaviour, according to a survey.The survey of almost 1000 of the estimated 38,000 residents found 55% liking city centre life, compared with 77% in a 2016 survey, while 34% disliked it, a big jump from the 8%, six years ago.The proportion who thought it likely they would still be living in the city centre in a year’s time, fell to 66% from the previous survey’s 77%.There are few surprises in the issues raised – with the two-year Covid-19 hit to the downtown area widely reported – and residents cited feeling unsafe (45%), crime and anti-social behaviour (36%) and the presence of people the residents feel uncomfortable being around (33%).www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/131039890/safety-dents-auckland-city-centre-dwellers-view-of-their-neighbourhoodaucklanders have done what they can be voting out the soft-on-crime mayor the ball is now in chippy's court to see if his reset can prevent the slide of the central city into a no-go slum if he can't, concerned auckland voters get to look for someone else to restore a sense of safety You forgot the constant roadworks and sea of orange cones, too. |
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Post by eri on Jan 26, 2023 19:56:58 GMT 12
i think from another forum
a crane was recently needed for 2? hours on the weekend to shift something high into a queen st. building
$650 crane high
$2,500 traffic management plan
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Post by fish on Jan 26, 2023 20:49:31 GMT 12
i think from another forum a crane was recently needed for 2? hours on the weekend to shift something high into a queen st. building $650 crane high $2,500 traffic management plan Ad a zero to each of those numbers and that would be spot on for a 2 hr job. All those cones come at a cost... In a past life, in a City far far away, under a state of emergency, I dropped a 2 ton diesel pump in the middle of a darkened street (no street lighting, power was off). The truck driver enquired as to the need for cones / tapers / TMP, I said, nah, the pump is far heavier than most cars, unlikely the pump will get damaged if anyone hits it, and if anyone is driving too fast to see it in this quake damaged city, serves them right. But I could only get away with that under the state of emergency (Chch 2011). I would have got arrested for things I did down there in the interests of public health if it weren't for the State of Emergency giving emergency powers. I even had the Police covering for us when some environmental activists starting causing trouble. Draining wastewater (poos and wees) from the streets and around peoples houses. The above example of the diesel pump in the middle of the street with no traffic management was preceded by a mother and her two yr old coming out and asking if I was going to fix the wastewater flooding around their house. Little girls gumboots weren't big enough to stop the sewage going over the top, and she couldn't step outside her back door. Been like that for weeks... After a while "they" started requiring traffic management again, and started pushing for it to be done by the book. I got called to a tomo one weekend. Turned out to be right over one of our trunk sewers. Small hole in the asphalt, maybe 1 foot diameter, but a big cavern underneath (I couldn't see the bottom...). Right in the wheel track of a bus lane. So I went and nicked a bunch of cones from another site and set up a tapper to push the traffic away from the tomo (was pushing traffic into oncoming traffic though, not ideal). Phoned it in, and said I need a TM team asap, ideally an attenuator or barriers, or at the least more cones. I got told, I need to give a minimum of 48 hrs notice for requirement of TMP's, I need to submit a plan on the new form QF16a, and get it countersigned by my manager, the works contractor and the H&S rep, oh, and I couldn't do it, cause I wasn't qualified to TMP-NZQA Level 3.2.4 My last day of work in Chch was the day they lifted the State of Emergency. I went for a walk on Brighton Beach before I flew out. It was near where the Police had been helping us. I was using another diesel pump to overpump wastewater into the stormwater network. Was stopping wastewater flooding around about 1,000 properties (Most of Parklands). An Environmental Activist / surfer type had been hitting the emergency shut off every night, consequently every morning we'd have wastewater flooding through the neighbourhood again. Police 'spoke' to him first night, and confirmed we wouldn't have any more issues. Stormwater discharged straight onto Brighton Beach, hence the issue. But dear God, when I went for a walk on the beach, I have never seen so many condoms in my life! The place was filthy. I think with the power and internet out, half of Chch were just shagging their brains out. We had to protect public health somehow. Most natural disasters, more people die of the shits (cholera, big outbreak in Mali right now, dysentery etc) than the actual disaster. We got the shit off the streets, but damn, to get anything done and follow the rules is near impossible. When you get an opportunity to just get things done that need to be done, then go back to all the rules, requirements, approvals, notice periods, training standards blah blah, you really see why things cost so much and why NZ is so un-productive. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jan 26, 2023 21:26:35 GMT 12
was sitting in a meeting this afternoon discussing some peripheral issues to the project (anyone travelling north thru the tunnels will have seen the huge crane we currently have on site to pull out a few trees) and I made the observation "building the road is the easy part" Was referred to this series made in Australia, will make you both laugh and cry because it is all too familiar www.netflix.com/nz/title/80063251Great parody of government bureaucracy
Welcome to the Nation Building Authority, an Australian government organisation set up to plan and oversee major infrastructure projects. While the staff are capable and enthusiastic, in true government fashion, red tape, politics and inefficiency will always have the last laugh.
Great series, parodying the inefficiency of government departments. "Parody" might not be the right word - "mirroring" would be more accurate. Shows well how the best intentions of staff always take a back seat to political machinations, unnecessary red tape and the usual government inefficiency. |
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Post by OLD ROPE 👀 on Jan 27, 2023 8:14:29 GMT 12
In a previous life I had to organize large building projects and get quotes from companies like Taits, or Fulton Hogan ..
The most shocking part of the quote was the charge out rate for the lollipop dudes at each end of the job.
They were $100 an hour. Yet, I bet leftie, they were paid $21.00.
The other issues was the cone charge of $0.20 per cone per day!
No wonder roads cost so much
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Post by fish on Jan 27, 2023 10:46:31 GMT 12
In a previous life I had to organize large building projects and get quotes from companies like Taits, or Fulton Hogan .. The most shocking part of the quote was the charge out rate for the lollipop dudes at each end of the job. They were $100 an hour. Yet, I bet leftie, they were paid $21.00. The other issues was the cone charge of $0.20 per cone per day! No wonder roads cost so much Council resealed the local carpark at the beach late last year. It was adjacent to the toilet block, showers and changing rooms, which are fairly new and not part of the contract. So they dropped a portaloo in front of the public toilet. Public toilet was still open. I was incredibly bemused at this complete waste of time and cost. Then it occurred to me. Its a cost-plus contract (one of the big panel term contracts). Hence the contractor gets and additional 20% margin for the cost of the portaloo on site. The same job laid rolls of fake grass mat over the actual grass to create temp walkways around the works area... I stopped looking, it gave me such a head ache. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2023 8:28:35 GMT 12
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Post by sloopjohnb on Jan 29, 2023 9:32:27 GMT 12
come on even I can see it's not a stolen car.
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Post by GO30 on Jan 29, 2023 12:56:41 GMT 12
come on even I can see it's not a stolen car. Stop the vehicle shaming please, that craft does identify as a Toymotor Prius, with the pronouns They,Them,Twat  |
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Post by eri on Feb 2, 2023 21:56:42 GMT 12
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