US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I saw this thread was cited in the thread about Americans driving abroad and it made me wonder if there is any update? What’s new with Brett Reck? Did he have to go back to NZ to face Justice or is he still cruising 495?

^^To answer my own question in part, I Googled Brett and found this bizarro interview which reads like he put it out as a PR with the help of AI. Very strange. Maybe he’s trying to rehab his image? It doesn’t mention his NZ escapade.

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/business/brett-reck-virginias-innovative-financial-expert/

This is so infuriating. Guy is a sleezebag and now gets to erase records of his "affluenza". Articles about him as an "innovative financial expert" appear to have been released 4 days ago, and 4 hrs ago. Not sure if they're on a timer or something but he definitely hired a firm to bury to NZ case.

Wow, it’s incredible he can do that.

Meanwhile, NZ media has confirmed that he was over the legal limit since this thread was started.

https://nelsonapp.co.nz/news/results-show-tourist-who-crashed-near-murchison-was-over-the-limit

But it doesn’t seem he will face any charges since he was allowed to leave the country.

Is they any way to bring this to Cap One’s attention? The guy should face some consequence for his behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this thread was cited in the thread about Americans driving abroad and it made me wonder if there is any update? What’s new with Brett Reck? Did he have to go back to NZ to face Justice or is he still cruising 495?

^^To answer my own question in part, I Googled Brett and found this bizarro interview which reads like he put it out as a PR with the help of AI. Very strange. Maybe he’s trying to rehab his image? It doesn’t mention his NZ escapade.

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/business/brett-reck-virginias-innovative-financial-expert/

This is so infuriating. Guy is a sleezebag and now gets to erase records of his "affluenza". Articles about him as an "innovative financial expert" appear to have been released 4 days ago, and 4 hrs ago. Not sure if they're on a timer or something but he definitely hired a firm to bury to NZ case.

Wow, it’s incredible he can do that.

Meanwhile, NZ media has confirmed that he was over the legal limit since this thread was started.

https://nelsonapp.co.nz/news/results-show-tourist-who-crashed-near-murchison-was-over-the-limit

But it doesn’t seem he will face any charges since he was allowed to leave the country.

Is they any way to bring this to Cap One’s attention? The guy should face some consequence for his behavior.

There's no way that they don't know. I'm going to keep typing "Brett Reck" and drunk driving, to increase presence on the internet. At the very least, he will have to keep paying the PR company. Will try to remember to revive this thread every few months.

[Anonymous]

Wow look at the list of press releases pumped out by some AI reputation firm in the last few weeks:

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/brett-reck-c822

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow look at the list of press releases pumped out by some AI reputation firm in the last few weeks:

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/brett-reck-c822

Yes, it’s so crazy that I started another thread on exactly that topic — reputation rehabilitation via AI.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1215523.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this thread was cited in the thread about Americans driving abroad and it made me wonder if there is any update? What’s new with Brett Reck? Did he have to go back to NZ to face Justice or is he still cruising 495?

^^To answer my own question in part, I Googled Brett and found this bizarro interview which reads like he put it out as a PR with the help of AI. Very strange. Maybe he’s trying to rehab his image? It doesn’t mention his NZ escapade.

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/business/brett-reck-virginias-innovative-financial-expert/

This is so infuriating. Guy is a sleezebag and now gets to erase records of his "affluenza". Articles about him as an "innovative financial expert" appear to have been released 4 days ago, and 4 hrs ago. Not sure if they're on a timer or something but he definitely hired a firm to bury to NZ case.

Wow, it’s incredible he can do that.

Meanwhile, NZ media has confirmed that he was over the legal limit since this thread was started.

https://nelsonapp.co.nz/news/results-show-tourist-who-crashed-near-murchison-was-over-the-limit

But it doesn’t seem he will face any charges since he was allowed to leave the country.

Is they any way to bring this to Cap One’s attention? The guy should face some consequence for his behavior.

There's no way that they don't know. I'm going to keep typing "Brett Reck" and drunk driving, to increase presence on the internet. At the very least, he will have to keep paying the PR company. Will try to remember to revive this thread every few months.

I don’t get what Brett Reck’s wife was doing? Was she in the passenger seat or in the back with the young child. Did she know he was drinking?

This is from the article that explains more:

An American tourist who was convicted of dangerous driving for hitting an oncoming car while driving on the wrong side of the road was allowed to leave the country, even though police were still waiting for the results of a blood alcohol test.

Now, those results are back and they show Brett Douglas Reck had been drinking before the crash - but it’s unclear whether he will face additional charges.

The police confirmed to Open Justice this week, after a request under the Official Information Act, that Reck was driving with a blood alcohol level exceeding the legal limit, but they did not say by how much.

They also wouldn’t say whether they were considering laying further charges…

Reck, a 42-year-old finance company manager from Washington DC, had been in New Zealand on a three-week holiday with his wife and young child. Just before 10pm on January 12 he crashed into another vehicle while driving on the Shenandoah Highway, State Highway 65, near Murchison, and ended up in hospital.

He’d been driving his rented Toyota on the wrong side of the road for at least 10 minutes, despite warnings from other drivers to correct his driving.

Police said Reck appeared at the scene to be intoxicated. His lawyer John Sandston said Reck had told him he had been drinking alcohol beforehand, which meant he may well lose his insurance cover.

He added that Reck faced losing his job if he was delayed longer and he and his wife’s young child was high-needs and required both parents for around-the-clock care.

The police conceded Reck’s family were likely to encounter hardships should he be forced to remain in New Zealand and that his wife was unable to fly home alone with their high-needs young child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this thread was cited in the thread about Americans driving abroad and it made me wonder if there is any update? What’s new with Brett Reck? Did he have to go back to NZ to face Justice or is he still cruising 495?

^^To answer my own question in part, I Googled Brett and found this bizarro interview which reads like he put it out as a PR with the help of AI. Very strange. Maybe he’s trying to rehab his image? It doesn’t mention his NZ escapade.

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/business/brett-reck-virginias-innovative-financial-expert/

This is so infuriating. Guy is a sleezebag and now gets to erase records of his "affluenza". Articles about him as an "innovative financial expert" appear to have been released 4 days ago, and 4 hrs ago. Not sure if they're on a timer or something but he definitely hired a firm to bury to NZ case.

Wow, it’s incredible he can do that.

Meanwhile, NZ media has confirmed that he was over the legal limit since this thread was started.

https://nelsonapp.co.nz/news/results-show-tourist-who-crashed-near-murchison-was-over-the-limit

But it doesn’t seem he will face any charges since he was allowed to leave the country.

Is they any way to bring this to Cap One’s attention? The guy should face some consequence for his behavior.

There's no way that they don't know. I'm going to keep typing "Brett Reck" and drunk driving, to increase presence on the internet. At the very least, he will have to keep paying the PR company. Will try to remember to revive this thread every few months.

I don’t get what Brett Reck’s wife was doing? Was she in the passenger seat or in the back with the young child. Did she know he was drinking?

This is from the article that explains more:

An American tourist who was convicted of dangerous driving for hitting an oncoming car while driving on the wrong side of the road was allowed to leave the country, even though police were still waiting for the results of a blood alcohol test.

Now, those results are back and they show Brett Douglas Reck had been drinking before the crash - but it’s unclear whether he will face additional charges.

The police confirmed to Open Justice this week, after a request under the Official Information Act, that Reck was driving with a blood alcohol level exceeding the legal limit, but they did not say by how much.

They also wouldn’t say whether they were considering laying further charges…

Reck, a 42-year-old finance company manager from Washington DC, had been in New Zealand on a three-week holiday with his wife and young child. Just before 10pm on January 12 he crashed into another vehicle while driving on the Shenandoah Highway, State Highway 65, near Murchison, and ended up in hospital.

He’d been driving his rented Toyota on the wrong side of the road for at least 10 minutes, despite warnings from other drivers to correct his driving.

Police said Reck appeared at the scene to be intoxicated. His lawyer John Sandston said Reck had told him he had been drinking alcohol beforehand, which meant he may well lose his insurance cover.

He added that Reck faced losing his job if he was delayed longer and he and his wife’s young child was high-needs and required both parents for around-the-clock care.

The police conceded Reck’s family were likely to encounter hardships should he be forced to remain in New Zealand and that his wife was unable to fly home alone with their high-needs young child.

I think he was in the car by himself. He played the special needs kid angle to get the court to leave the country, yet I guess it wasn’t enough to prevent him from going out alone late at night, getting trashed, and then causing a big accident. But I guess he doesn’t want anyone to know it ever happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this thread was cited in the thread about Americans driving abroad and it made me wonder if there is any update? What’s new with Brett Reck? Did he have to go back to NZ to face Justice or is he still cruising 495?

^^To answer my own question in part, I Googled Brett and found this bizarro interview which reads like he put it out as a PR with the help of AI. Very strange. Maybe he’s trying to rehab his image? It doesn’t mention his NZ escapade.

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/business/brett-reck-virginias-innovative-financial-expert/

This is so infuriating. Guy is a sleezebag and now gets to erase records of his "affluenza". Articles about him as an "innovative financial expert" appear to have been released 4 days ago, and 4 hrs ago. Not sure if they're on a timer or something but he definitely hired a firm to bury to NZ case.

Wow, it’s incredible he can do that.

Meanwhile, NZ media has confirmed that he was over the legal limit since this thread was started.

https://nelsonapp.co.nz/news/results-show-tourist-who-crashed-near-murchison-was-over-the-limit

But it doesn’t seem he will face any charges since he was allowed to leave the country.

Is they any way to bring this to Cap One’s attention? The guy should face some consequence for his behavior.

There's no way that they don't know. I'm going to keep typing "Brett Reck" and drunk driving, to increase presence on the internet. At the very least, he will have to keep paying the PR company. Will try to remember to revive this thread every few months.

I don’t get what Brett Reck’s wife was doing? Was she in the passenger seat or in the back with the young child. Did she know he was drinking?

This is from the article that explains more:

An American tourist who was convicted of dangerous driving for hitting an oncoming car while driving on the wrong side of the road was allowed to leave the country, even though police were still waiting for the results of a blood alcohol test.

Now, those results are back and they show Brett Douglas Reck had been drinking before the crash - but it’s unclear whether he will face additional charges.

The police confirmed to Open Justice this week, after a request under the Official Information Act, that Reck was driving with a blood alcohol level exceeding the legal limit, but they did not say by how much.

They also wouldn’t say whether they were considering laying further charges…

Reck, a 42-year-old finance company manager from Washington DC, had been in New Zealand on a three-week holiday with his wife and young child. Just before 10pm on January 12 he crashed into another vehicle while driving on the Shenandoah Highway, State Highway 65, near Murchison, and ended up in hospital.

He’d been driving his rented Toyota on the wrong side of the road for at least 10 minutes, despite warnings from other drivers to correct his driving.

Police said Reck appeared at the scene to be intoxicated. His lawyer John Sandston said Reck had told him he had been drinking alcohol beforehand, which meant he may well lose his insurance cover.

He added that Reck faced losing his job if he was delayed longer and he and his wife’s young child was high-needs and required both parents for around-the-clock care.

The police conceded Reck’s family were likely to encounter hardships should he be forced to remain in New Zealand and that his wife was unable to fly home alone with their high-needs young child.

Could be that Brett Reck's wife was also sauced. Very likely went out together

[Anonymous]

DUI dude's name is Brent [W]RECK? Nice.

[Anonymous]

Tell the DC Under-25 freelance car-impounder community what car he drives and where he works. They can perform a citizen's impound his vehicle.

[Anonymous]

Car rental companies in NZ and UK should but placards and timed beeping reminders about driving in the left.

[Anonymous]

Any update on this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just returned from NZ after a two week vacation. It is hard to drive on the other side. MY DH despite his best efforts did end up driving on the wrong side, but quickly adjusted after a couple of honks. Thankfully no issues.

That’s insane. I’m playing a trip to the UK right now, and I won’t be driving for a minute. Anywhere the trains don’t go is a nonstarter. I know my limits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just returned from NZ after a two week vacation. It is hard to drive on the other side. MY DH despite his best efforts did end up driving on the wrong side, but quickly adjusted after a couple of honks. Thankfully no issues.

That’s insane. I’m playing a trip to the UK right now, and I won’t be driving for a minute. Anywhere the trains don’t go is a nonstarter. I know my limits.

Why? You will miss a lot of ground that way. Driving in England is not that hard.