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The article on bus
driver Lloyd Walsh (ODT, 10.1.06) is a fine example which shows just how
over-regulated New Zealand is becoming. My feeling is that the
Land Transport New Zealand computer cross-references with the police
computer, and any names that result for the violent or sexual crimes are then
sent a chain letter saying that they are going to lose their licence. There
is no, or very little, human input into this — it is all computer controlled.
If this was being dealt
with by a human, then surely they would look a little deeper into the facts
of each case before sending the letters. It was consensual between Mr Walsh
and his girlfriend at the time, and this was 34 years ago. How many of us can
seriously say that we never made any mistakes when we were 16 years old? The
parents of the (then) girlfriend should be ashamed — it is not always the boy
who is to blame. The attitude of Land
Transport NZ in this matter has stirred many descriptive words as its
practices in my mind such as idiotic, unbelievable, stupid, insane, pathetic,
obtuse and bureaucracy gone mad. The onus is left on the likes of poor Mr
Walsh to challenge the false revoking of his licence. Regulations have gone
crazy. All for the sake of two days’ difference 34 years ago for an act that
was not really a crime at all.
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