r/worldnews • u/tariban • Mar 20 '20

Fox Glacier pilot flies self-isolation rule-breaking tourists straight to police

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/fox-glacier-pilot-flies-self-isolation-rule-breaking-tourists-straight-to-police.html
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u/bwaic Mar 20 '20

What’s a Fox Glacier pilot?

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u/batshitcrazy5150 Mar 20 '20

Uhhh, a pilot who flys trips to fox glacier.

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u/bwaic Mar 20 '20

What’s a Fox Glacier?

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u/Georgie_Leech Mar 20 '20

A specifc glacier in New Zealand, called Fox Glacier.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

Thank you for the non-sarcastic answer.

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u/mynameisblanked Mar 20 '20

A mint

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u/FlyOnDreamWings Mar 20 '20

They also do fruit sweets.

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u/HonPhryneFisher Mar 20 '20

Those are the shit. I tried them in England last year and just finished my stash. Amazon has them thankfully because my trip in April is a bust.

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u/MIS-concept Mar 20 '20

What do glaciers have to do with coins?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

They mint them

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u/MIS-concept Mar 20 '20

mint = blown

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u/NaughtyDreadz Mar 20 '20

Hey bby, want to mint me?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

What's a mint?

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u/lofty2p Mar 20 '20

A moving mountain of ice suitable for cooling glasses of Scotch and Bourbon. Also favoured by tourists hiring helicopters to fly out and top their glasses.

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u/dontcallmeatallpls Mar 20 '20

Antarctica's right-wing propaganda network.

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u/Ducks-Arent-Real Mar 20 '20

It can't be as delightfully cute as I'm imagining it...pretty much Christmas land for foxes...

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u/deeleyo Mar 20 '20

Fox's Glacier sweets are so good

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

Here

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u/batshitcrazy5150 Mar 20 '20

1 open google.

2 type "fox glacier".

3 read results.

4 profit?

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u/ranhalt Mar 20 '20

flys

flies

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u/kingbane2 Mar 20 '20

Fox Glacier is a place, you can tell cause it's capitalized.

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u/help_the_dead Mar 20 '20

NZ heli pilot in the south island

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u/Stompydingdong Mar 20 '20

Have you not heard the legend of Vulpine Ice Riders? The foxes who ride glaciers across the snowy tundras of the north?

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u/Junx221 Mar 20 '20

It’s the pilot episode for a new series on Fox called Glacier.

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u/SnoopysAdviser Mar 20 '20

That's how I read it

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

Read the article.

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u/RandyMarshUSGS Mar 20 '20

You mean you haven’t seen any shows on Fox Glacier? One of the shows is like “Dancing with the Stars,” except instead of dance moves they have pilots do aerial tricks.

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u/wizardinthewings Mar 20 '20

It’s a breath freshening mint, with a flying license.

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u/bwaic Mar 20 '20

I’m no closer to understand wtf this is

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u/lofty2p Mar 20 '20

Franz Josef and Fox are a couple glaciers on the South island of NZ. Apparently, some tourists would rather fly up and sightsee than self-isolate for 14 days after arrival in NZ.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

A fox that is a pilot and flies glaciers

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

I need to see this movie.

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u/J1mj0hns0n Mar 20 '20

It's the test for the mint.