Mark,
I was talking with a fellow Inspector from Christchurch this morning.
The police report on this whole thing has come out as saying basically "no-one is to blame".
Now, can someone please explain to me how it is that people from the contracting company to Mercury can get nasty taunts and bad language assailed at them if, no-one is to blame.
Wasn't it nice of Uncle Helen to come on the news after the incident and say how "shocked" she was that a thing like this could happen in a country like New Zealand.
Well, I have news for her, it is her governments socialist policies that control electricity generation, transmission and to a degree distribution.
Which bit did you miss Helen?, your party caused all of this, so don't come out with rubbish like you didn't know.
Same thing, different day.
Now, lets put all this in perspective, I'm told that there are over 150 disconnections per day in Auckland because of defaulting on power accounts.
How is a company supposed to make money in a climate like that?.
Power companies are not a charity, why does the Government want to make them so, considering that they are often the major share-holder in these companies?.
If you don't pay your power bill, you get disconnected, simple as that.
What happens if your car runs out of fuel?, it is up to you to fill it up again, not go crying to the welfare agencies.
My $0.02 worth
