Wow. Nice going, WCC. Yep, lets bully hundreds of businesses to leave their lights on all night, two nights in a row, with no compensation.Let's block off blocks and blocks of the CBD, two nights in a row, with no warning signage or detour routes.
Let's fuck up the late bus routes, two nights in a row, with no notification.
Let's send tow-trucks to shift parked cars down several blocks of Featherston Street, leaving the poor owners assuming they'd been nicked.
Let's have collossally loud black helicopters with search lights flailing all over the place terrorising apartment dwellers, and barrelling down Lambton Quay just above the bus-wires like they're reenacting the final scenes in fucking Star Wars; all we were missing, as we stood and watched in irritated, bewildered confusion - and wondered when the S.W.A.T. team was gonna arrive - was Darth Vader twisting his (steering-)knob and making weird backwards elephant sounds.
For what? A fucking car commercial.
Cunts.
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But hasn't the council made $200? They'll be laughing all the way to the bank - break out the bolly!
There was a long and detailed list of road closures, parking restrictions, filming times and warnings of low flying helicopters in the paper last week.
You just had to read it.
Yeah.. I'm thinking the inner-city residents I talked to must have missed that, then.
Their bad, I guess.
Yeah, we were stuck in some of the traffic that night. We wondered about the involvement of the police, the fire brigade and probably many other tax-payer/rate-payer funded authorities. I hope they were paid well. Or maybe they were paid a pittance for the chance to engage in another "Creative Wellington" venture. Oh, the glory of it all.
My poor colleague who lives in Thorndon locked her doors thinking there was a psycho on the loose.
They gave us cinema tickets in thanks for leaving our lights on :)
Ha! As the person I was with commented, in respect of the film-crew and the traffic-wranglers and so on.. "I wonder if they ever have angst about doing something worthwhile with their lives".
Just for the record, our organisation, which has offices on Lambton Quay and was asked to leave the lights on over the weekend, was given $40 compensation.
jeebus woman, what? do you begrudge me my right to complain about my elected representatives kow-towing to big money interests and running roughshod over their constituent rate-payers?
llew, cathi, yeah.. that oughtta sweeten the deal, right?
Maybe I'm still reeling from my recent $300 powerbill (it's usually $120 a month).
Ouch.
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