Anonymous
01/16/2024 09:28
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour. Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian. And so on…
The badly behaved bachelor party travellers from the UK going to Amsterdam are notorious.
Anonymous
01/16/2024 08:35
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour. Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian. And so on…
Anonymous
01/15/2024 22:03
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
I don’t think a US judge would be so lenient on a tourist committing DUI.
Anonymous
01/15/2024 16:30
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:516,000 yanks visit NZ every year.
This is unfortunate but Kiwis are not going to judge half a million people by this one asshat.
Nothing wrong with hearing 'drive on the left' a few times a day.
OP here. The vast majority of those 500k visitors are cruise passengers who do not drive. I just thought this news item that is trending here in NZ should follow this guy home. He should be able to escape this story by flying home.
Do you know him or something? The vibe of this shaming is so personal. (And yes this dude was wrong duh)
Like we don't have intoxicated drivers driving dangerously here in the States?
Or people who drive on the wrong side. You always see the stories about people getting on the off ramp of the highway and driving.
Anonymous
01/15/2024 16:24
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anyone know this guy?
Anonymous
01/15/2024 05:32
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are vacationing in NZ, and this story involving a guy from home is all over the local news, and now locals also mention it to us when reminding us to drive on the left. I really wish Americans would try harder to avoid bad press abroad that affects other US visitors!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-tourist-brett-reck-hit-car-on-highway-near-nelson-after-driving-on-wrong-side-of-road-for-10-minutes/ALUMKN4ZAFHCFG4DPCGZPZB554/
Hun, I have been coming and going from New Zealand for nearly 40 years. I used to live there. The kiwis have ALWAYS reminded visitors to drive on the left.
Road fatalities in NZ is always national news. Kind of like the sunburn time on the radio. Because you know, no ozone and shit.
In reality, there are many more newspaper articles in NZ about bad Asian tourist drivers.
It's actually quite hard to switch between driving on different sides of the road. It's ok on a divided highway, but pulling out of a parking lot, or on a lonely road, you have to think quite hard. All the driving lessons that were drilled into you as a teenager now have to be performed in mirror image.
In summertime, I'm convinced that all the senior journalists in NZ go on vacation. They tell the junior reporters left in the office to just write about road accidents.
The rate of road fatalities in Virginia is higher than in NZ, despite Virginia having one of the lower rates in the US. The difference in media coverage is quite stark though.
Maybe it's because there's about two degrees of separation in NZ compared to six here, so you're likely to know someone who was good friends with that guy who was killed in that horrible crash in Timaru or Taupo or Taranaki.
Nothing in your response explains how this guy could have driven a full 10 minutes on the wrong side of the road with the driver behind him desperately trying to warn him. This wasn’t a momentary lapse, it was protracted and it could have killed someone. That is newsworthy in any country.
Also, read the article. It says that based on his behavior at the scene, police suspected that he was intoxicated. While awaiting the toxicology results, he insisted he had to leave the country for family and personal reasons. This is certainly not very exemplary behavior by any account.
Anonymous
01/15/2024 05:27
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are vacationing in NZ, and this story involving a guy from home is all over the local news, and now locals also mention it to us when reminding us to drive on the left. I really wish Americans would try harder to avoid bad press abroad that affects other US visitors!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-tourist-brett-reck-hit-car-on-highway-near-nelson-after-driving-on-wrong-side-of-road-for-10-minutes/ALUMKN4ZAFHCFG4DPCGZPZB554/
Hun, I have been coming and going from New Zealand for nearly 40 years. I used to live there. The kiwis have ALWAYS reminded visitors to drive on the left.
Road fatalities in NZ is always national news. Kind of like the sunburn time on the radio. Because you know, no ozone and shit.
In reality, there are many more newspaper articles in NZ about bad Asian tourist drivers.
It's actually quite hard to switch between driving on different sides of the road. It's ok on a divided highway, but pulling out of a parking lot, or on a lonely road, you have to think quite hard. All the driving lessons that were drilled into you as a teenager now have to be performed in mirror image.
In summertime, I'm convinced that all the senior journalists in NZ go on vacation. They tell the junior reporters left in the office to just write about road accidents.
The rate of road fatalities in Virginia is higher than in NZ, despite Virginia having one of the lower rates in the US. The difference in media coverage is quite stark though.
Maybe it's because there's about two degrees of separation in NZ compared to six here, so you're likely to know someone who was good friends with that guy who was killed in that horrible crash in Timaru or Taupo or Taranaki.
Nothing in your response explains how this guy could have driven a full 10 minutes on the wrong side of the road with the driver behind him desperately trying to warn him. This wasn’t a momentary lapse, it was protracted and it could have killed someone. That is newsworthy in any country.
Anonymous
01/15/2024 05:20
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are vacationing in NZ, and this story involving a guy from home is all over the local news, and now locals also mention it to us when reminding us to drive on the left. I really wish Americans would try harder to avoid bad press abroad that affects other US visitors!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-tourist-brett-reck-hit-car-on-highway-near-nelson-after-driving-on-wrong-side-of-road-for-10-minutes/ALUMKN4ZAFHCFG4DPCGZPZB554/
Hun, I have been coming and going from New Zealand for nearly 40 years. I used to live there. The kiwis have ALWAYS reminded visitors to drive on the left.
Road fatalities in NZ is always national news. Kind of like the sunburn time on the radio. Because you know, no ozone and shit.
In reality, there are many more newspaper articles in NZ about bad Asian tourist drivers.
It's actually quite hard to switch between driving on different sides of the road. It's ok on a divided highway, but pulling out of a parking lot, or on a lonely road, you have to think quite hard. All the driving lessons that were drilled into you as a teenager now have to be performed in mirror image.
In summertime, I'm convinced that all the senior journalists in NZ go on vacation. They tell the junior reporters left in the office to just write about road accidents.
The rate of road fatalities in Virginia is higher than in NZ, despite Virginia having one of the lower rates in the US. The difference in media coverage is quite stark though.
Maybe it's because there's about two degrees of separation in NZ compared to six here, so you're likely to know someone who was good friends with that guy who was killed in that horrible crash in Timaru or Taupo or Taranaki.
Anonymous
01/14/2024 23:43
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Not sure why everyone is excusing this guy when they were so hard on Anne Sacoulas for doing the same in England. And this guy did it for 10 minutes and possibly was drunk. He didn’t kill anyone, but easily could have done so.
Anonymous
01/14/2024 22:09
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately not uncommon.
https://crux.org.nz/crux-news/overseas-tourist-flees-country-after-queenstown-wrong-way-smash
How does case number TWO mentioned in this thread demonstrate that it's not uncommon? How many Americans do this in NZ per year?
My point is that this type of accident is not infrequent in any country where tourists drive on the opposite side of the road to what they’re used to. I lived briefly in a tourist area in the north of Australia many years ago. Unfortunately there were a few Americans who killed themselves driving on the wrong side of the road. Very sad.
Anonymous
01/14/2024 21:25
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:516,000 yanks visit NZ every year.
This is unfortunate but Kiwis are not going to judge half a million people by this one asshat.
Nothing wrong with hearing 'drive on the left' a few times a day.
OP here. The vast majority of those 500k visitors are cruise passengers who do not drive. I just thought this news item that is trending here in NZ should follow this guy home. He should be able to escape this story by flying home.
Do you know him or something? The vibe of this shaming is so personal. (And yes this dude was wrong duh)
No, but do you think someone should be able to commit a crime in a foreign country and then run home like nothing ever happened without being called on it!”?
Anonymous
01/14/2024 21:19
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:OMG, not another look-at-these-ugly-American-tourists making us superior people look bad posts...
The US does seem to have an unusually high % of trashy idiots.
Anonymous
01/14/2024 21:16
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:We are vacationing in NZ, and this story involving a guy from home is all over the local news, and now locals also mention it to us when reminding us to drive on the left. I really wish Americans would try harder to avoid bad press abroad that affects other US visitors!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-tourist-brett-reck-hit-car-on-highway-near-nelson-after-driving-on-wrong-side-of-road-for-10-minutes/ALUMKN4ZAFHCFG4DPCGZPZB554/
Hun, I have been coming and going from New Zealand for nearly 40 years. I used to live there. The kiwis have ALWAYS reminded visitors to drive on the left.
Road fatalities in NZ is always national news. Kind of like the sunburn time on the radio. Because you know, no ozone and shit.
Anonymous
01/14/2024 21:14
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:516,000 yanks visit NZ every year.
This is unfortunate but Kiwis are not going to judge half a million people by this one asshat.
Nothing wrong with hearing 'drive on the left' a few times a day.
OP here. The vast majority of those 500k visitors are cruise passengers who do not drive. I just thought this news item that is trending here in NZ should follow this guy home. He should be able to escape this story by flying home.
Do you know him or something? The vibe of this shaming is so personal. (And yes this dude was wrong duh)
Like we don't have intoxicated drivers driving dangerously here in the States?
Anonymous
01/14/2024 21:13
Subject: US tourist in NZ who makes us all look bad
Anonymous wrote:OMG, not another look-at-these-ugly-American-tourists making us superior people look bad posts...
So you can't deal with people reminding you to drive on the correct side of the road? Snowflake.