Re: [CH] From This Morning's New Zealand Herald.
flynnt (flynnt@ellconweb.net.nz)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:25:03 +1300
Linda Reynolds wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >A bit of New Zealand Chile News....
> >
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> >New Zealand Herald - Front Page - Wednesday, January 28th, 98
> >
> >Let us Spray - Police Cop an arresting Taste
> >
> >(Photograph of Policeman kneeling with head in a bucket of water)
> >
> >Caption: This bucket of water was a sight for sore eyes for Constable John
> >Burton yesterday after he had a taste of pepper spray. Twenty police
> >officers from Wellington volunteered for an eyeful of the potent oleoresin
> >capsicum spray, which one said felt as if "someone has put a hot poker in
> >your eye."
>
> .......I just heard on the radio yesterday that there is some bill that is
> trying to get passed (not sure if it's state or federal wide) to make using
> pepper spray on a police ossifer (you being the bad guy and he not
> volunteering) would become a felony. They certainly have no sense of
> humor......I wonder if we would get thrown in the clinck if (like in one
> guys story a few months or more ago) if they pulled you over and asked to
> sniff your vile of substance, and found it to be pepper powder???? Yikes,
> possession could be dangerous?
>
> Linda
It is not true that there will be a New Zealand constable stationed outside
all McDonalds restaurants armed with a pepper spray for the use of patrons
who find the food too bland.
Tony Flynn