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7:18 am, July 18th, 2025 - 12 comments
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Again, we were woken up by a bunch of hoodrats drifting on the intersection by our house. Great clouds of smoke and lots of noise. As you do at three o clock in the morning, my brain started tying this together with recent articles about private helicopters in urban areas, Helicopters and homes don’t mix – Greater Auckland and other forms of antisocial “Fuck You’s” to the rest of us.
Why one sort is legal, when the other is not?
If I put a bucket of oil in the water I will be fined, and could be jailed. Shane Jones wants to kill “Freddie the frog” and destroy the environment for generations to come.
The “Coalition of Cockups” figureheaded by Nicola Willis (Ruth Richardson Clone) and David Seymour (“Useful idiot” for offshore corporate interests) blights the future of hundreds of thousands of New Zealand children. Lack of investment in education, housing, health and infrastructure, ensures that their future will be many times poorer.
The destruction of our society. NZs curious case of corrupt self destruction “We’ve outsourced governance to the New Zealand Initiative, BusinessNZ, lobbyists, and consultants. These private interests shape economic policy while the public foots the bill. It is, to use an old fashioned word, corruption”.
Reflections on the Green’s challenge to the fiscal straightjacket. “The Greens are suggesting we must start to solve our real resource problems as opposed to the narrowly conceived financial approach that is taking us further away from a well-functioning society”.
Greens have put forward costed and researched changes to stop our present malaise. Economic policies that are simply normal in more successful countries, and New Zealand in the decades after WW2. Reversing the Neo-Liberal paradigm that has caused us to go backwards since 1984.
Who gains from refusing to even discuss them?
The sort of people who drift in street corners at 0300? The sort who think that landing a helicopter in almost their neighbours back yard is socially and environmentally OK?
At least the drifters can claim teenage thoughtlessness.
Those wrecking our communities and environment for immediate personal gain for a few, cannot!
Good Post again KJT ! (And I do sympathise re the burnouts sleep disruption)
Crush them ! (their helicopters that is) Oh wait up….these helipad hoons arent "thoughtless teenagers" (Some call boyracers , but there are more than a few girlracers so, as you say teenagers)
These chopper riding 1%ers …are the real 1%ers who run our towns, cities. in fact…. our Country.
I had made a small comment here re …
Who does the most damage? I know.
Sympathies KJT.
We are halfway between two damaged parks and sports fields, with a slight incline and speed bumps, which appear to attract the "dirt bike crowd".
They have no respect for traffic in the daytime, and revel in rowdy road use about 1 to 2am.
Helicopters in our area are police or air ambulance, and mentally imagining a times five frequency by private owners is hard to fathom.
Selfish behaviour.
We should realise that when there is a problem, this generation’s likely first action would be to video it on their 'phones including a selfie!!
Then they put it up online…free publicity.
This Murdoch cartoon goes well with "The ultimate Fuck you… Private [PI’s] Helicopters"
It requires a resource consent to build a helipad, then there are noise control and use conditions.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/565588/approving-helipad-build-at-auckland-home-sets-worrying-precedent-community-group
Of course there appears to be no concept of the combined impact of multiple users within a street/neighbourhood/suburb.
I reckon that the ruling about number and times of flights will after a while be treated with about the same amount of respect as those governing height limits on buildings.
Whoever consented to this outrage has set a f@#$%^g bad precedent.
What gets me is the way they seem to have played the council. Mowbray and Williams are major shareholders in Auckland FC, and had proposed a major development of Western Springs park, to be their home ground.
The moment the helipad was approved, they pulled out of the development.
And..aye. I had been going to link that with my much earlier comment.
Does suckers seem appropriate?
Ratepayers, neighbors etc all got played by a well designed process that delivered the outcome it did IMO.
Precedent set now and just around the corner its rod duke who iirc was keen on one also.
SPC comment 4
I could say refer to my "1%er" comment in my above comment… Anyone who lives where some "developer" "entrepeneur" etc, etc; has lawyered up and been able to afford very expensive advisory experts…the average person, has no chance.
And good luck with noise control and use conditions….
Money talks… as always
My home is on a helicopter flight path to the hospital.
Sometimes, though rarely, I would be awoken by them. But these are helicopters that are doing good. We understand, and many would support, a flight over with a tiny prem baby and mother, or an accident where critically injuries have occurred.
But to fly out, showing my anti a bit, to go to Waiheke to have lunch and return, or to make sure you don't have to wait with the plebs while catching a flight, well what is the overwhelming 'doing good' feature here?
Because 'doing good' is how these exceptions should work. What is the overwhelming doing of good attached to this breach of noise controls and the privacy of many other citizens by the placement of this helipad?
In the libertarian mind it's what's good for them and here are my lawyers.
Having an existing helipad within 15 minutes at mechanics bay isn't convenient enough for them it seems.
So 'I'm doing good for me', go away and here is the name of my lawyer!