I'm writing this in advance. This will possibly happen, I hope i'm wrong.
Today, the captain of the Rena has appeared in the Tauranga District Court. His name was suppressed but his age & ethnicity wasn't. Now I fear that there will be "retribution" against that ethnic community & people who look like that ethnic group by uneducated, small-minded idiots.
Again, I hope I'm wrong!!
nah if they we're that uneducated they'd never put the two together.although he is a dick for crashing his shipToday, the captain of the Rena has appeared in the Tauranga District Court. His name was suppressed but his age & ethnicity wasn't. Now I fear that there will be "retribution" against that ethnic community & people who look like that ethnic group by uneducated, small-minded idiots.
Again, I hope I'm wrong!!
I'm more pissed at the fact we as a country will foot the bill for the majority of the clean up and the laws and fines against the owners,operators and charterers are so weak that they will end up paying no more the $200,000 at best in fines.