I bring your attention to probably the stupidest thing I have ever seen in print - and I have seen current Labour party ad's.
I read this off Newstalk ZB but it is a NZ Herald piece copied from Star News.
The piece: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ridiculous-bid-to-open-third-bottle-store-in-200-metre-stretch-in-christchurch-suburb/UN4J3K255LVD2G73DMEXRLEWP4/
The article is about the proposal to put a bottle shop in a large exclusively shopping area.
The proponent has made a commercial decision that the closeness of two existing liquor outlets is not of concern.
But Bea Gooding of Star News obviously objects, quoting one local worrying about the usual "there's a bus stop nearby where children get on busses" as his reason.
That these children have already walked past a mall containing two supermarkets selling booze plus (probably) at least one other liquor outlet does not appear germane.
The facts of the matter is that a businessman has decided to start another business in a designated shopping area, selling a legal product that some do-gooder busy-body doesn't like and Bea Gooding, cub reporter?, had nothing useful to do so wrote a story about it from the false shock/horror point of view.
Now, to get things straight, I have no problem with people objecting to anything they wish. What I have a problem with is the slime, and it's anti-anything even slightly enjoyable stance, publicising such a silly objection to create weight for that stupidity.
Newstalk ZB, NZ Herald and Bea Gooding, it's been done before, better, and was as bloody stupid then as it is now!
