The urinating Mayor walked past a public toilet
March 28th, 2010 at 5:47 pm by David Farrar
This little screenshot has the red line showing the path you would take to go from GPK to the Council offices, as Mayor Williams did on Thursday. It is not a long distance – around 500 metres.
Now we already know that the Mayor could have used the toilets at GPK. We also know he could have accessed the Council building, and used their toilets, rather than urinate outside.
But what many may not know, is that he would have actually walked past a set of public toilets – where the thick green arrow is. According to locals, there is a tourist i-site at this location, with a public toilet.
So just 200 metres after passing perfectly good public toilets, the Mayor decides he needs to urinate outside his own Council building. This just makes it worse.
I note with amusement that the North Shore City Council website has a front page poll on whether there are enough liquor bans in public areas. Maybe they need a liquor ban within 500 metres of the Council offices!
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March 28th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
I’m sure Williams knows how excatly much isn’t spent on cleaning the public loos in his kingdom. The tree was almost certainly safer for him.
Edit – Love the squiggly red line. Depicts the staggering quite well
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I like how LeftRightO- sorry, Andrew Williams disappeared from the last thread after I identified him.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
to be fair to the fool he probably would have walked down The Strand, as the NSCC carpark is closer to the ‘C’ in Channel view (and there are lots of trees on that route)
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Damn, a man can’t even spot a thirsty tree and remedy the situation without you lot picking on him.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
There are many worse things we can do in public than urinating on a tree. Being liquored up enough to walk past a public toilet and use a tree is one thing, proceeding to drive afterward is another. Resignation seems like the only option in light of the driving. It’s one thing to say ‘oop’s I got drunk and pissed on a tree’ but you can’t say that when you drove afterward….
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
the mans a drunken buffoon…stand down now you fool while you still have a smidgen of dignity.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Starboard
What dignity are you talking about?
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
This is the sort of investigative journalism people like Martyn Bradbury crave for yet cry about when evil Reich-wing blogs do the leg work. Still upset, Martyn? There there, it will all be better soon.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Who is this comrade Bradbury Hurf?
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Just what has he done wrong? When you are in Public office, why do you have to do what the public does? Or use Public conveniences?
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Ha – Arnie is The Terminator; Andy is The Urinator
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Maybe they need a liquor ban inside Council Offices.
Vote:Ever remember that pesky kid that was always a problem at kids birthday parties? the one that was a loudmouth at the teen parties? the one that just pissed everyone off?
Yeah, you do remember, and then you voted for him. Why? Because you need to be controlled by leftist suckholers that’s why. Time to stop the blamestorming Andrew. You are the only one who can help yourself.
March 28th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
No person with a public profile would want to be seen visiting a public toilet, surely. So maybe Williams wasn’t THAT pissed!!
But look, this is one sick puppy. His election was an accident, and he is about to bow out soon, thankfully.
Let’s just be kind and not bully him into something silly.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Luc – are you out of your mind?
The man is the Mayor. He is responsible for the safety and cleanliness of all public toilets. If he, or for you for that matter, are saying that public toilets are not safe and clean, then what does that say about his success in the job of running the city?
This is Takapuna, one of New Zealand’s most affluent suburbs.
If the public toilets in Takapuna aren’t clean enough for the Mayor of North Shore to use, then frankly, North Shore NEEDS a supercity.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Hay.. i’m Andrew Williams Mayor North Shore City Council… Hick… and I can do what I like.. Hick.. this is my town.. Hick..
Sorry Andrew you can’t..
and Act will make sure of it..
How is it Rodney always fulls on his feet .. smiling.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Well I feel sorry for Amelia’s granny/uncle/auntie/friends etc who, proud as punch, come to see her having made it (politically) on to Kiwiblog, only to find her bracketed by cunts, one way or another.
Edit: actually, it feels weird to type that word
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Could have been worse. Might have pissed his pants before or when he got into his car and apparently drove off.
As tired and emotional as a NEWT. And there was me thinking Wind in the Willows was mainly about a Toad.
Oh wait……………..
There is no option, but for him to resign tout de suite. PDQ or Right now will do!
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
We all know one of the best songs around……… [courtesy Whale]
“Ding dong the witch is dead”.
Well here comes…..
Vote:“Ding dong the drunk is dead)!!!!
March 28th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
I suspect that that serial mugger who got old Keith Allen back in Wellington all those years ago has got out of prison and mugged the Mayor. What was his name? Jack something.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Brian…. sure it wasn’t my mate Rob’s friend Gordon?
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
What a beat up. Any bloke who hasn’t had a quick piss on a tree in a public garden is either a liar or needs to get out a bit more often.
Talk about mock outrage.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
sure malcolm, your right, EXCEPT WHEN YOU GET ELECTED TO OFFICE!!!
Why do you think Bill Clinton got into so much trouble?
Vote:Sure we all get regular blow jobs from our secretary under the office desk, BUT NOT THE ELECTED!!!
March 28th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Think it would be rather splendid for the reporters and media to have a wee chat with the folk that the good Mayor was talking to on the day in question.
Whilst he was getting tired and emotional, there are bound to have been plenty of folk in GPK who would have also have been in earshot of him.
There is bound to be a lot of fascinating material there for us all to enjoy, and enjoy, and continue enjoying.
What an arse.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
See you at 7.30am by the tree Andrew, breath test
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
TVNZ story is up here http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/calls-grow-mayor-s-resignation-3436536/video and I expect TV3 will also run a similar story.
Bring on Paul Henry tomorrow morning – that should be fun.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
You’re right Malcolm. Faux outrage indeed.
I piss outdoors at lweast 4 times a week
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
I piss on my lemon tree 3 times a day.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Back again, Andrew. Put your wife back on her leash?
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
With 11.5 inches in my pants, she doesn’t need a leash.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
But D4J, I would like to think it is in your OWN back yard!!!
And of course that’s all good.
A thought to hand….. I hope Baloo doesn’t piss on his…… he’d make a mess on the carpet
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
proof that Andy Williams can’t handle the piss .. yes that was an attempt at humour
Vote:in a way, it was good he kept out of the public loo while drunk at night on his own .. a George Michael song springs to mind after an unfortunate episode in a loo .. there have been many public figures, some no doubt innocent (as Andy would be), caught up in dodgy situations so the lemon tree may have saved him from even more grief.
March 28th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Pity his blood alcohol level can’t be measured from his urine sample.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Why do you think Bill Clinton got into so much trouble?
Sure we all get regular blow jobs from our secretary under the office desk, BUT NOT THE ELECTED!!!
Surely that would be ERECTED
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
‘Let he without sin cast the first stone…..’ Perhaps, but when you’re the Mayor of a major NZ city the voters expect (and are entitiled to), a little decorum from those in high office. Mirroring North City city perhaps, Williams should have more class and style, and continually getting soaked in public is not a good look as the position of his office sinks before his very own eyes. Cry baby.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
The Mayor has been know to get tired and emotional, and full of piss quite a few times. If you drink very hard, then you will get a very full bladder. Just wonder whether Andy Pandy ever got tired and emotional with that other well known artist, Winston Peters?
I-Predict will surely have interesting odds on his imminent resignation.
If he was spotted getting into and driving a car, then the Police really do need to back check his alcohol consumption in the prior 24hrs.
The staff in GPK, and the clients that day and night really do need to do a bit of a correlation with his imbibing and his payment receipts.
If he has consumed a verifiable level in excess of what would be considered normal fair and reasonable he needs arresting straight away. The man is a criminal. A buffoon, and a criminal actually.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Really you need to appreciate that “When you gotta go, you gotta go” and alchohol reduces inhibitions.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Absolutely shocking.
Much more shocking than this.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10634799
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
I dunno David, as big a clown (trademark: Whale Oil) as Williams may be, this strikes me as the politics of the smear. I would expect such from a Trevor Mallard type, but you have consistently shown you can do better.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Vivienne Keohane, one of Mr Williams ‘enablers’ has stood in our local ward for the past two elections. I am giving serious consideration to running agaist her!!
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
jucknz
For sure, we’ve all been there. I wouldn’t normally drive like that, how about you?
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
He use the Dover defense, prostrate problems…. not drunk at all….
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Well. there goes his Knighthood…and chance at power Lol :p
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
So a claim that Mr Williams was “intoxicated” while at GPK has serious implications for the Bar/Duty Manager?
Vote:GPK is not allowed to have a drunk patron on their premises. Williams either was or was not. The obligation is on the management of GPK to ensure that the patron does not become intoxicated. I feel confident that GPK management will assert that Mr Williams was not intoxicated
March 28th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
GF
Vote:“bit of a correlation with his imbibing and his payment receipts”
Payment rarely indicates consumption.
I’ve paid for many rounds without reciprocation, how about you?
March 28th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Yep, but people actually like me.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Going by the red line, that’s quite a stagger.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
He is the Mayor. So long as he is within his own jurisdiction, he can piss where he wants!
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Does he actually own the Council, its assets, the IP, trademarks, services, history and culture. Or is he just a paid for servant of the people.
Given his outbursts, apparent random communications at strange hours, and now a possible clear case of DIC.
He has to go, and go now. He is a FREAK.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Pissed mares on the other hand are a whole different kettle.
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Shoot messenger – never hear the message.
Vote:Actually – Mr Williams advocacy on issues affecting North Shore City, resounds.
March 28th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
“Mr Williams advocacy on issues affecting North Shore City, resounds.”
What, like piss hitting the gutter and splashing up your trouser leg?
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
With all credit to Inventory 2 for concept and free under Creative Commons licence for… oh, I dunno… whatever you like
Vote:March 28th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
So who here is authoratively asserting that Mr Williams was intoxicated “barside at Takapuna’s GPK bar and restaurant around 10pm on Thursday?”
Vote:GPK management? (trained and legally obligated to prevent this)
Andrew Williams?
Unamed observer from SST?
Does Mr Jonathan Marshall actually claim to be that observer?
March 29th, 2010 at 12:00 am
“(trained and legally obligated to prevent this)”
Errr, care to cite some authority for this point of law you raise? Go back to your desk in the Mare’s office and stay off the blog machine, he will be needing it soon for sending email, its after mid-night afterall, and probably pissed.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:02 am
V, we just want much more digging. Going back 5 years in a forensic fashion will maybe suffice. All his mails, internal and external.
Ditto for SMS, snail mail, and communication in fact.
All traces of inappropriate behavior needs thorough investigation.
He should welcome the same with open arms.
Let no stone be upturned. If he has nothing to hide, he has nothing to fear.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:13 am
RP
Vote:Try the Sale of Liquor Act
Precis here
http://resources.ccc.govt.nz/files/LLChecklist-docs.pdf
“Allows any intoxicated person to be or remain on licensed premise – A fine of up to $4,000″
March 29th, 2010 at 12:18 am
GF
Vote:Do you advocate the same level of scrutiny for all politicians? Would be interesting to see Mr Hides’ correspondence (and SMS) around the time of his Global excursions mit Girlfriend!
March 29th, 2010 at 12:36 am
valeriusterminus, heh, think about the law as it relates to pissing in public places then taking a drive while you are on the Mare’s blog machine. Maybe we are more concerned about the actions of the Mare than we are about the bar staff that served him the wine. Do you intend to pin the blame for his appalling acts on them for forcing the booze down his throat?
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:42 am
Russell Brown says at;
Vote:http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/11/havoc_does_dj_service_for_fines.html
“The Sunday News journalist Jonathan Marshall got a court to agree to to wiping $47,000 worth of parking fines this year by agreeing to place himself under a four-nights-a-week curfew!
If this is the same Jonathan I trust Thursday was not his curfew night!
March 29th, 2010 at 12:48 am
RP
Vote:Alleged urination – thats all!
See the pee?
The credibility of Mr Marshall is paramount.
March 29th, 2010 at 6:43 am
V, er not really. Just one at a time will keep us entertained, and chomping on the popcorn. BTW. I feel the same way about any hue of Politician. It up to the 4th Estate and now the Blogosphere to keep them honest.
If they are not honest, then they will be expected to resign immediately.
You can’t be a little bit pregnant!
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 6:49 am
You’ve just got to admire the lefty’s ability to shoot the messenger. Makes you wonder whether this whole story was actually about that American singer Andy Wiliams.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Is valeriusterminus Mrs Williams? Or is he/she the Mad Mayor himself?
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 7:20 am
I would like to know why nobody has bothered to ask the tree how it feels about all of this.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 7:23 am
No doubt this story has legs………. gpk staff will be interviewed as to the mayors sobriety or lack thereof.
The person who saw the mayor spraying against council buildings will provide more detail.
Historical drinking will be investigated.
Former employees , work colleagues etc will be sought for comment.
I don’t get how this guy became mayor, he sounds more like a uni student from the 80′s.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 7:31 am
There does seem to be some outrage from the left regarding this issue and how we seem to be treating it with some sort of delight.
All I can say is what goes round, comes round.
Remember the Blumsky episode?
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 7:51 am
Always wondered who Valeriusterminus was as I suspected it was some pinko pollie, now I know I’m right (well, soon to be pinko ex-pollie).
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 8:33 am
The tree huggers haven’t rushed there to find out?
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 9:07 am
The story says “The Sunday Star times’ observed ……. Now if you want public officials to be held account it may pay to get slightly better clarification of who it was and what they were doing there. It could easily have been a chance encounter but how would you know.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 9:11 am
It might also behove the NthShore City Council to hold their elected officials to account for such alleged behaviour instead of letting them run amok pissing around town like a mad dog.
Shades of Dover Samuels.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 9:19 am
It would be far worse for Williams if he was a regular at the public toilets after dark. Then there would be some real speculation about what kind of man he is … but then ” ….. pulling down his pants to pee … ” Ya gotta wonder !
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Andy Wliiams dignity has been spotted!
It was behind a unicorn that was being ridden by the Tooth Fairy who was on her way to visit Santa and the Easter Bunny.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 9:31 am
It would be interesting to know if Williams paid for the food and drinks for himself and others of charged it to North Shore City. If he charged the bill to the Council his actions would be mush worse.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 9:44 am
expat- isn’t that why we have elections? Its a mystery to me how George Wood got dumped by the voters, though it does seem as though polarising figures do quite well in NZ mayoral elections. This is what you get with FFP.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 9:51 am
True Mr Chapman. Williams does seem a bloody idiot who needs to go though.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 10:10 am
“the red line showing the path you would take to go from GPK to the Council offices”
No it doesn’t – GPK is on the other side of the road and another 100 mtrs further along
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 10:32 am
And where were you that evening voice. A little too much knowledge being displayed I’m thinking.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Thursday ?? I can’t recall !!
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
as most of his indiscretions seem to occur after dark – perhaps he’d be better known as the ‘Night Mayor’
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Citizen pisses in street after a session on the turps.
OH.
MY.
GOD.
THIS.
IS.
A.
TRAVESTY!
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Citizen happens to be Mayor of NZ’s 3rd largest city….. yes it is
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Well never let it be said that *only* the left stoops to character assassinations based on trivial matters in the private lives of their opponents…
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Hardly character assassination, but what are Jonathan Marshall’s politics again?
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
RRM
THEN DRIVES HIMSELF HOME – This is the big problem.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I can’t believe you guys think it’s o.k. for someone to lose his (or her) job over unsubstantiated allegations that were never reported to the police.
Urinating in the street is nasty but hardly a major crime and I am sure that more than a few people writing here have been caught short. Especially when public toilets can be locked at night to stop vandalism. Did you check that on your map!
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Burt
It isn’t just that. It is that AND the fact that after about 7 hours on the piss; he lurches into Chez Williams and fires off another drunken email; bullshits on the telly about his attitude towards Williamson; gives the predictably weasely, evasive and dishonest response to the tatty repeater brigade. In other words, this is yet another example of why this idiot is just a complete arse to boot- just like all the other well documented examples. Will the pain medication excuse get dragged out again …?
But the flak for pissing on a tree (during a drought!) – well, arguably a beat up as the weary old pinkos suggest. But even so its hardly desirable behaviour in a Mayor who ultimately has responsibility for littering and ensuring that the dog-walking fraternity don’t leave a trail of Charles the Thirds around the streets.
We need to look at this for what is is. Further evidence (if indeed any is required) that he’s a complete idiot, but more importantly, a source of enormous humour on the back of the previous texting and email escapades and in particular, getting the old biddy the heave from the Northcote shopping Centre because she made the place a bit untidy.
BTW, will anyone be requesting details of his expense claims under the OIA?
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
…. and of course, in the humour context – the full down trou. Hilarious – was he having trouble finding it??
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
How much taxpayer money was wasted on this junket? Oh so this just about some guy who pissed on a tree
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Bummer Bradbury stumps for The Clown, posts picture of Hide doing a Roman salute. The fiend! And nothing of value was learnt.
I like to think we hold our elected representatives to better standards, don’t you?
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
thedavincimode,
Vote:I thought they were Richards, not Charles
March 29th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Not a major crime but a crime nonetheless -
Summary Offences Act 1981
32 Excreting in public place
(1) Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding $200 who urinates or
defecates in any public place other than a public lavatory.
And he couldn’t go at GPK? He’s the mayor ffs, not some street wino. Shouldn’t we expect a greater degree of decorum from elected officials?
There’s also the none too small matter of driving with excess breath/blood alcohol. Its now reported he woofed back 2 bottles of wine. That’s another potential $4.5k fine or 3 months in Sing Sing – more if he’s a multiple offender, which is entirely possible.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Steve
You may well be right.
But then that’s the great thing about dog shit – it means different things to different people!
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
so now the GPK workers say he shared 2 bottles with 4 mates .. he arrived after 6pm .. his mate paid for the wine .. he wasn’t pisssed??
Vote:now, he was at another restaurant/bar from midday yo 6pm .. what’s the truth here??
New Zealand’s Les Patterson lives on the Shore
March 29th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Jerusalem has its Wailing Wall.
North shore City has its Pissing Tree.
Vote:March 29th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
I love the way the left have come out in force to tell is this story is no big deal, it reminds me of the way they spun the Ruth Dyson drink drive incident.
Can you imagine how they would have attacked this story had it been John Banks who got pissed and urinated on a tree before driving home?
Fucking hypocrites, every single one of them.
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