Comments on: Bob Jones on coroners

By: Tauhei Notts

Tauhei Notts — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:41:15 +0000

Big Bruv writes about the painfully politically correct wankers out there.
In this morning’s NZ Herald there is one letter re Bob Jones published.
You guessed it.
It was from a painfully politically correct wanker.

By: big bruv

big bruv — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:11:59 +0000

Sir Robert Jones is a national treasure.

How I wish we had somebody half his age that was brave enough to state the blindingly obvious and stick two fingers in the air to the painfully politically correct wankers out there (Ali Mau being one of them)

You may not like what he has to say sometimes but you cannot agrue that he is often wrong.

By: Harriet

Harriet — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:53:49 +0000

:….A circus elephant escapes, runs amok and tramples someone to death and the coroner will urge that the government makes us all build elephant-proof fences…”

Elephants maybe…….but not camels……not this week anyway.

By: Pauleastbay

Pauleastbay — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:06:24 +0000

Sorry DVA, just got in from a long day, upper cut to self duly delivered and I will now concentrate on the cricket ,cheers

By: tropicana

tropicana — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:03:54 +0000

Disputes Tribunals are presided over by “Referees”.

Coroners and Referees see themselves as brothers in arms, so to speak. Seems they get together once a year – in my city at least – to slap each other on the back and have a bit of a knees-up, which they unofficially refer to as having a CRAP (Coroners and Referees Annual Pissup).

By: Johnboy

Johnboy — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:03:21 +0000

Hard to believe that local lawyers like to pontificate with nonsensical gravitas!

Well I never!

By: thedavincimode

thedavincimode — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:02:09 +0000

but surely not even the Green party wants to interfere in our lives as much as Coroners want to.

eastbay, can you please just confirm that you actually said that and that your login hasn’t been hacked.

By: Pauleastbay

Pauleastbay — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:57:41 +0000

KevinH

We know you are a MP and we know you are a Green MP but surely not even the Green party wants to interfere in our lives as much as Coroners want to. ??????????????? Tell me it ain’t so Kev.

Bob is right , the coroners job is to officially record the cause of death. What he does in fact is read information supplied to him by the police and the pathologist. Very very few sudden deaths go to inquest anyway and for many of them, the majority of whom are local lawyers it’s there five minutes in the local rag , so they feel obliged to react with over the top gravitas and nonsensical recommendations for a once in a millennium incident.

By: David Garrett

David Garrett — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:42:31 +0000

Sir Bob tries far too hard to be amusing these days….his central point is well made, but he extrapolates to a silly degree…IMO…

By: KevinH

KevinH — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:39:39 +0000

Sir Bob is being plain silly with his remarks concerning Coroners, we ignore their advice at our peril, extrapolating that advice into a rampaging elephant analogy is plain nonsense.
Increasingly Coroners have become the conscience of the nation, their findings have reverberated within the community at large and eventually results in legislation that counteracts the many difficult issues that Coroners are confronted with.
Personally I welcome their professional opinions and may they continue to publicise the issues that plague us.

By: pq

pq — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:06:38 +0000

I remember as a kid hearing about George Wilder, and we thought he was our own famous Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid,our very own wild hero,

By: UglyTruth

UglyTruth — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:47:41 +0000

These brain farts are what drives the body politic. If you want to fix a problem that’s all well and good, but but nobody has a duty to help you make it happen.

By: OneTrack

OneTrack — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:21:16 +0000

No way the government should have to formally respond to these stupid brain farts.

By: 2boyz

2boyz — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:22:26 +0000

Personal responsibilty people!

By: dime

dime — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:16:46 +0000

funny.

its a shame that they have turned themselves into a joke. i just shut off when i hear a coroner recommendation now