At the risk of offending and upsetting all the victim support people out there (you have your opinion, I’m allowed to have mine), I have to say I fully support the judges decision to grant permanent name suppression in this case.  This is what alcohol does to you, people. It makes you do stupid, sometimes illegal things, you wouldn’t dream of doing when sober.  And who hasn’t done something stupid, and maybe illegal, when drunk? Come on, you know you have.  Do you think you should lose your job, your career, over it?

Everyone’s up in arms because the so-called ‘victim’ in this case was a 16 year old girl. Do you think he knew that?  Have you seen the average 16 year old girl out in town lately? Dressed up to the nines, with makeup and clothes to make them appear 18 so they can buy booze, could you pick the underagers with any certainty?  It’s not like they were in school uniform. And, I’m sorry, but this whole victim statement just gives me the shits.  ‘I had a lot of things go wrong in my life’ but had ‘turned a corner and things were looking better’.

Yes, that’s why at 16, you were out at 3am with your friends following drunk celebrities down an alleyway in town in Wellington. Things are gonna get a whole lot better for you living that kind of life. Get real. That’s a victim impact statement specifically designed to invoke sympathy if ever I heard one.

At 16, I was fairly naive, but even I knew that following any drunk guy down a dark alleyway at night and asking for a kiss is asking for trouble, no matter who he is.  Are you that stupid?  And hello? Parents? Your 16 year old kid is out at 3am, what the fuck are you thinking?

And yes, what he did was crude and probably revolting, but for heavens sake, chalk it up to bad decision making on your part, and a drunken mistake on his, and let him get on with his life. And get the hell on with your own. Go to school, go home at a decent hour in the weekends, and make something of your life. The choice is yours.

Unless of course the celeb was Jordan Luck. Then feel free to string him up by the balls. That guy is a Loser with a capital L ;-)