Build an island to avoid the ban on drinking at the end of the year
Some young New Zealanders have built an island to avoid being fined for the ban on drinking alcohol on New Year's Eve evening.
In the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, in order to avoid violence and public disorder, the authorities decided to introduce a ban on alcohol consumption for the last evening of the year, with fines of up to $250. Some young people thought of a way to drink in the open air anyway, enjoying the fireworks, avoiding fines, and it came to his mind to build an island on the afternoon of the last of the year during the low tide. In this way they thought they were immune to the ban because, according to them, they were in âinternational watersâ and the ban there was not valid.
The mayor of Thames-Coromandel also smiled after hearing the news. Everyone was having fun from the island, it did no harm to anyone,"he said. They insisted that the island stood in international waters but, of course, this is not the case. This is what I love Coromandel: the creative nature of people ".
A policeman, on the other hand, jokingly said that if he knew it he would probably have reached him too.
Although they could therefore be fined, the do-it-yourself island guys escaped it thanks to their creativity - and also because, after all, they were not creating any discomfort, having isolated themselves. And in addition to not being fined, they found themselves in dozens of newspaper articles online and not, enjoying their 15 minutes of celebrity.