I am intrigued by a story coming out of Gisborne. One has to be—by ANY story coming out of Gisborne.
Anyway, it seems police caught and charged a man called Richard Carlson for possession of cannabis while he was fleeing the coast during a tsunami warning. Carlson was found with nearly eight kilograms of the drug in his car. The cannabis was—the police admitted—of poor quality (did they smoke it?), there was no evidence of Carlson selling the stuff, he had no criminal record and he and his wife were in fact pillars of the community. But he done wrong and he got caught. Richard Carlson, 57, was sentenced to 12 months home detention for his crime.
Fair enough.
But what intrigued me about this story was not that, it was this: Carlson was stopped and caught by police because they spotted a broken tail light on his car and pulled him over.
Let’s pause for reflection…
· There is a tsunami warning
· People acting on instructions are moving from the coast
· Police are stopping people for broken taillights?
In sentencing Carlson, Judge Tony Adeane said, "These facts, with respect, could only happen on the East Coast.”
They (the facts) lay "between irony and farce", said the judge.
He is right.
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Yup - I'm giggling! But it's tragic to think you get pulled over for a broken tail light in a tsunami warning. Obviously God moves slower in those parts ;-)
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