I learned three things about New Zealand today:
1) Its retail outlets known as “dairies,” which appear to be mostly run by South Asians, are suffering a rash of robberies by unidentified perps.
2) The Labour government proposes to fight back by installing “fog cannons” in the stores (you can watch one in action in the video below).
3) Many New Zealanders have responded by calling this “an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff approach,” which, apparently, is a popular and well-understood phrase in New Zealand, but which confuses me and reminds me of “an ambulance at the top of a cliff approach” from a breakthrough early Simpsons episode:
We're taking action to prevent crime and protect our communities by almost doubling the number of fog cannons available to small businesses across the country. This will help to keep our communities safe by reducing robberies and minimising the risk of violence to retail workers. pic.twitter.com/rIXVoykRyn
— New Zealand Labour (@nzlabour) March 5, 2020
Here's an ambulance at the top of the cliff approach:https://t.co/bXrZiltmj7
