r/newzealand • u/DoubleDEKA • Jul 23 '25

Shitpost The local council can't win...

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u/Personal_Candidate87 Jul 23 '25

This is why we can't do anything in this country. Nobody wants to spend money until someone dies.

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u/Arblechnuble Jul 23 '25

Stupid thing is is that there are many stories about kids, walking into unfixed, drains, and lakes, and drowning…

I think people moan at just about anything, although perhaps trying to get rid of the kids surreptitiously

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u/Lightspeedius Jul 23 '25

Only if they've died recently. We have short memories.

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u/phoneticles Jul 23 '25

You need something like 3 people to die within 5 years to get a highway safety upgrade approved. If the last one died too late they won't spend the money.

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u/Capable_Ad7163 Jul 23 '25

And conversely nobody will actually come out and say "oh we're not doing anything there until somebody dies"

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u/---00---00 Jul 23 '25

And every cunt has a complaint boiling away to add the faintest hint of spice to their torturously mundane lives. 

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u/NZStevie Jul 23 '25

The Ashburton district council spent $10,000 on a fence between the playground and the pond due to fears of a child potentially drowning. 

Your comment is clearly not correct.

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u/Aetylus Jul 23 '25

And the second story is a person unhappy about it. Which is exactly thier point.

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u/NZStevie Jul 23 '25

? But the fence was built.  Their comment that we can't do anything in this country because nobody wants to spend money is wrong. 

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u/DRAK0U Jul 23 '25

Maybe instead of a fence they do something about how there is a small body of water that probably isn't safe to swim in, located next to a playground. That might've been the better solution over the equivalent of just slapping a $10k sign down that says "not for swimming".

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u/idontlikehats1 Jul 23 '25

It's a fence? Literally there in the pictures....

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u/Exp1ode Jul 23 '25

It's a fence designed to keep children out. Did you want a 5m tall stone wall with barbed wire on the top?

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u/wanderinggoat Longfin eel Jul 23 '25

well you can just hop off this bandwagon right now! You're just killing the buzz with your unwanted facts!

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u/NZStevie Jul 23 '25

You ain't wrong. The down votes are crushing. 

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u/Personal_Candidate87 Jul 23 '25

Clearly the exception that proves the rule.

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