Feel for Guardian Weekly journo Zoe Williams. Within a day of publishing a feature article on Denmark’s equality and most of all safety, where no-one locks things up, people leave babies in prams in the street and totally trust strangers, which she describes as “social trust”, for which Denmark scores the highest in the world, an assassin had a crack at killing the Prime Minister.
That said, the guts of her proposition is undoubtably true.
Sadly, not so in New Zealand. A fortnight back in Serbia, after I was asked where we were from, the response from the questioner was one of amazement that we were returning.
“I read an article recently about how dangerous life is in New Zealand”, my enquirer responded.
I actually predicted this on this blog about 4 years back. The assaults on tourists in particular were bound to eventually attract attention and so it’s seemingly happened.
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There was a article on RNZ this morning about a Hamilton family who were packing up and walking away from their CBD restaurant and moving overseas because the streets of inner city Hamilton were becoming unsafe at night!
Unfortunately PC Plod seem to have almost zero power to stop criminal activity in NZ. We live in a woke wonderland.
Late last century I was in Copenhagen staying at a hostel, when a bedraggled Spanish travellor arrived and I commented on the flash push bike he had.
He smiled and told me he spent some time choosing it from the large selection available at the train station when he arrived. Non were locked he said and chose the best for his cycling tour of Denmark.
A year later and back home in Dannevirke, i got a phone call from the is very person telling me he was in Australia and wanted to come and visit. I quickly raised the drawbridge and filled the moat with crocodiles…
Maybe we need a new criminal offence, with heavy punishment: “Endangering The NZ Economy?”
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