A 57-year-old man has been arrested after pretending to be injured on the East Tāmaki overbridge on Auckland’s Southern Motorway.
Emergency services were called to reports of a man who appeared injured at about 7.46am on Monday.
Police arrived to find the man “who was pretending to be injured as part of what we can only describe as reckless behaviour in an attempt to gain publicity”, Inspector Danny Meade said.
Traffic was unusually heavy during peak-hour as a result.
I don’t agree with you in general; but in cases like this I do. The point of protest is to gain attention.
Where I don’t agree:
Causes that are important, and we are not making progress (or like climate change, actively going backward).
Where I do agree:
Causes like this one, we are actively going forward. Mental health and by extension suicide prevention are talked about now more than ever. This is a shit way to gain attention.
The point of a protest should be to gain support, not awareness. If you double the number of people who are aware of your cause, but they now hate you, that’s not really progress.
Agreed, but increasing awareness by 1000 fold probably balances out.
I’ve also seen the intended message lost in the noise, for example most people seem to think restore passenger rail want more commuter trains, and aren’t aware that they are actually in favour of intercity rail.
Not only have they achieved nothing but pissing off tradies, but most people think they’re protesting for something else entirely.