Nice try
December 22nd, 2012 at 3:55 pm by David FarrarThe Herald reports:
Two unemployed men arrested after trying to put their meals onto Prime Minister John Key’s bar-tab this week claim Key had offered to shout their meals and then reneged – a claim the Prime Minister’s office has rejected.
Also:
Mr Jellema said his bail conditions prohibited any alcohol, but had only had one beer and had the incident with Key not happened, it would not have been an issue. Mr Boyd said his bail conditions prevented him being drunk in a public place – but he also had only had one beer and subsequent testing had shown minimal alcohol in his system.
If he is already on bail, and has an alcohol prohibition as part of his bail terms, I think we can make some conclusions about their reliability.
It does remind me though of a National Party conference in the 1990s. One of my mates asked for my room number. I deduced he probably wanted to charge his drinks to it, so I gave him the number of the room next door to me.
Later in the night caught up with him, and he boasted how he had charged half a dozen drinks to my room. I then responded that it wasn’t in fact my room, but the one next door to me.
He was still very unconcerned at this point, and casually asked whose room it was. I replied that it was (then Finance Minister) Bill Birch’s. He turned several shades of pale and rushed downstairs to the bar to try and pay for his drinks, and get the charges removed. He correctly concluded that Mr Birch would have been very unimpressed to find my friend’s signature on bar drinks charged to his room!
Tags: bill birch, John Key
December 22nd, 2012 at 4:11 pm
they got arrested for that? average. its pretty funny.
they coulda dined out on that story for years “i charged my dinner to the PM!”
Vote:December 22nd, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Did it at a conference at the Grand in Brighton a few (20) years back. Group of us managed to chalk up nearly 300 pounds worth of piss that night. He nearly had a coronary
Went back to the room and drunk called my now wife who was still in NZ, told her, and I quote “I fucking love you”.
Works a charm lads
Vote:December 22nd, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Mr Jellema said his bail conditions prohibited any alcohol, but had only had one beer and had the incident with Key not happened, it would not have been an issue….”
The law prohibits murder, but if it’s ‘only the one’ shouldn’t be a problem…
Vote:December 22nd, 2012 at 6:44 pm
I understand that David Shearer has a secret video showing John Key agreeing to pay for their meal. He will be releasing it to TV3 on New Year’s eve.
Vote:December 22nd, 2012 at 7:25 pm
If he had one beer on his own admission then that would breach his bail conditions. As well as possible further charges. Good riddance to some bad rubbish. You would have to be pretty reckless to try something on against the Prime Minister. John Key is a damn nice guy who can be too easy going sometimes.
Vote:December 22nd, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Name and shame DPF. Anyone who would think you would pay for their drinks deserves the shame attached.
Vote:December 23rd, 2012 at 5:46 am
Then again, it’s the off-the-cuff type of thing I can imagine Key saying. Key has a track record of having a poor memory of around “private” conversations, until the evidence emerges. I’m thinking Pike River and the Tea Cup saga in particular…
Vote:December 23rd, 2012 at 6:43 am
And what he did or didn’t say about David Beckham…
Vote:December 23rd, 2012 at 7:28 am
What’s the big deal?
Most MPs have been charging their drinks to the taxpayer for decades now, When informed of the bail situation, Key probably just assumed they weren’t who they said they were and that they were with the ACT(ors) party.
Vote:December 23rd, 2012 at 9:54 am
mikenmild
Key was right in general terms about David Beckham – he may have had football feet but his wife has brains as well, and other attributes.
Vote:December 23rd, 2012 at 2:06 pm
yeow…hong kong phooey… it says it was one of DPF’s *mates*. You don’t rat out a mate now, do ya?
DPF: How very astute of you. Quick thinking.
Vote:December 23rd, 2012 at 6:32 pm
The two guys tell their side of the story over here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1212/S00125/christmas-cheer-absent-from-pms-dps-detail-at-green-parrot.htm
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