Posts by Glenn Pearce
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and that population is, demographically, only going to become more infirm over the next few years.
How does that work ?
If you're sick and >65 do you get to choose between the Sickness Benefit or National Super ?
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There's already been some discussion on this over at Jim Donovan's place back in February (He's a director of Click Suite the recipients of some of the gravy)
[http://jimdonovan.net.nz/2008/02/22/mission-on-getting-kids-active-using-social-networking-website/
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DeepRed
Holy Shit, I was joking when I said maybe's there's 2 ! There's 14, 6 with the same name !
M Poole
No there are several reports (I won't bother linking to them all) that mention the police waiting to verify where the offender was with no mention of waiting for firearms.
The Dom Post doesn't actually say they were waiting for firearms, just the guy hypothesising that could have been the situation.
However, I do concede that Herald article does have them waiting for firearms. (I didn't see that one before)
I guess we'll just have to wait for the inquiries to determine what really happened.
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Are there 2 Sikh communities operating perhaps ?
This from monday morning..
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10516568
The guy was able to walk around and go to the toilet after he was shot, it's pretty clear the end result should have been better
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DeepRed
When was that posted ?
What I was trying to point out was that it appears as though the Sikh Society has done a U turn from their initial stance of not lodging a formal complaint against the police and are now lodging a complaint at the insistence of the family.
M Poole
Could you point us at the earlier reports where the police indicated they were waiting for firearms to arrive ? I can't find any, the repeated line I see in all the reports is
Police said they had to establish where the gunman was before they entered so no one else's life was put in anger.
What we do know is there was another armed robbery going on in Otahuhu at the same time....
I'm not suggesting the cops are gutless, far from it in fact. Just that they have been known to make mistakes from time to time. Little pumpkin's Mum's body left in the boot of a car for a couple of days while they searched everywhere but the obvious springs to mind.
Kyle sums it up perfectly
Not letting any police failures off the hook, but staying focused on the criminal.
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M Poole
Actually there were you or just making it up as you go along ?
Nothing to do with wanting certainty about where the perpetrator is
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10517192
The police have said themselves they had to establish where the gunmen were before they entered the scene so nobody else's life was at risk. Not waiting at the safe point to get tooled up as your diatribe above describes.
And it looks like the Sikhs are quite as "classy" as previously indicated in this thread and have decided to make a complaint ?
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I understand the theory behind the Police and Ambo's waiting at the "safe point" but at what point do they decide it's safe to enter the scene ?
a) such a period of time has elapsed that the perpetrators have probably left the sceen by now ?
or
b) a member of the public wanders in then lets them know it's safe to enter ?
Over half an hour from the 111 call to the ambos going in would have seemed like an absolute eternity to those on the scene.
They knew it was a liquor store they were going to, it wouldn't have taken a rocket scientist to work out it was a robbery. Statistically, how often do the robbers hang around in this scenario after shooting someone ?
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Agree Russell this is a beat up. That is in no way excessive for a conference for ~100 people
Cheap shot at APN though, they can do what they like with their money, it's not mine.
This tells a story though....
"All my family lives on the street, I'm not going anywhere."
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Labour has been very bloody generous to the breeders in the past four years
I've breed 2 in the last 4 years, I'm not feeling the love Russell. Remind me again please where Labour has been
Bloody Generous
The pre-school my kids go to part time refuses to partake of the 20 free hours because it won't cover their costs, I haven't had enough kids and I'm too much of a rich prick to partake in WFF.
Things that would make a diff to me
- tax deductible child care
- tax deductible private health insurance
- options on where I could send my kids to school other than the one I'm zoned for
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What on earth is John Ansell on about? As far as I can tell I've never even mentioned him by name -- and even on the two occasions I expressed some distaste for the iwi-versus-kiwi billboards, my language wasn't exactly angry. How bizarre.
I thought he was trying to take the piss out of you actually. Sort of feigning having to steel himself about comments on your blog. That's exactly what he's trying to achieve isn't it ?