Jammed and damned
Feb 20, 2022
4 minutes
JANE CLIFTON
New Zealanders probably thought they had toughened up a bit since the days Australian wit Clive James used to mock us for having national television appeals to relocate missing elderly Ford Cortinas. So what a shock it’s been to become the first country in the world to provide free valet parking for lawbreakers.
This peak farce during the “freedom” convoy’s occupation of Parliament grounds was only blunted because most protesters turned their noses up at the police offer of secure covered parking at Wellington’s stadium, preferring to leave their cars blocking the streets indefinitely. Given the embarrassingly long delay in the police,
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