{"id":89379,"date":"2025-10-20T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89379\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:26:09","slug":"dunedin-woman-couldnt-be-bothered-complying-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89379\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin woman &#8216;couldn&#8217;t be bothered&#8217; complying with police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dunedin woman stopped for allegedly speeding &#8220;couldn\u2019t be bothered&#8221; to comply with police and ended up arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old woman was originally spotted speeding down Andersons Bay Rd, South Dunedin at 10.32pm on Sunday when police began following her, Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>She then allegedly attempted to evade officers by driving down multiple side streets in the area until she was forced to stop at a red light.<\/p>\n<p>When officers came to the window to speak with her, she told them she &#8220;couldn\u2019t be bothered with anything&#8221; and refused a breath screening test.<\/p>\n<p>She refused to accompany officers back to the station and was then arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Once at the station, she refused an evidential breath alcohol procedure, and also refused to provide a blood sample.<\/p>\n<p>She was suspended from driving for 28 days and was charged with refusing to accompany police and refusing a to provide a blood sample.<\/p>\n<p>The woman would appear in Dunedin District Court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:laine.priestley@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dunedin woman stopped for allegedly speeding &#8220;couldn\u2019t be bothered&#8221; to comply with police and ended up arrested.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-89379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}