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Eleven engineers, with a mix of New Zealanders and Americans, spent 6 hours at low tide digging up sand in the Tairua estuary so that they could build a hill with a flat surface to place a picnic table and chilly bin. That evening they had plans to celebrate new years with a bit of alcohol — the area had a ban on liquor consumption in public places, including beaches.
On the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, on the North Island of New Zealand, the crew of clever kiwis, with a touch of American ingenuity, knew they had to do this in international waters to get around the ban, but were they far enough out?
"We kind of thought it would be a grey area, being out in the water and all," Hayward said, one of the eleven.
Two of them are actually trained engineers, just not in construction, so “winged it.”
Waikato eastern area commander, Inspector John Kelly, is quoted as saying that police weren't aware of the novel attempt to circumvent the liquor ban. “That's creative thinking — if I had known that I probably would have joined them,” Kelly said.
The next morning, after experiencing the New Year at midnight and heading home a few hours later, they returned, but to their dismay their picnic table was missing. Someone had stolen it.
They think it was nicked between 3am and 5am on New Year’s Day. "If you have it, can you please return it to where you found it - or near to there - that'd be great," says Hayward.
Sources
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100305744/meet-the-crew-who-built-new-zealands-booze-ban-island
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100275008/new-years-revellers-build-sandcastle-in-coromandel-estuary-to-avoid-liquor-ban
On the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, on the North Island of New Zealand, the crew of clever kiwis, with a touch of American ingenuity, knew they had to do this in international waters to get around the ban, but were they far enough out?
"We kind of thought it would be a grey area, being out in the water and all," Hayward said, one of the eleven.
Two of them are actually trained engineers, just not in construction, so “winged it.”
Waikato eastern area commander, Inspector John Kelly, is quoted as saying that police weren't aware of the novel attempt to circumvent the liquor ban. “That's creative thinking — if I had known that I probably would have joined them,” Kelly said.
The next morning, after experiencing the New Year at midnight and heading home a few hours later, they returned, but to their dismay their picnic table was missing. Someone had stolen it.
They think it was nicked between 3am and 5am on New Year’s Day. "If you have it, can you please return it to where you found it - or near to there - that'd be great," says Hayward.
Sources
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100305744/meet-the-crew-who-built-new-zealands-booze-ban-island
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100275008/new-years-revellers-build-sandcastle-in-coromandel-estuary-to-avoid-liquor-ban
