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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-463/
- Published: 2021-11-13T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-14T08:44:16.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Business, COVID-19, Crime, Featured, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

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BFD Face of the day, James Lang was visited by the police after being snitched on for forgetting to wear a mask.

> A Geraldine pensioner was surprised to receive a visit from police late last month, after he forgot to wear his face mask while out shopping.  
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> Seventy-eight-year-old James Lang said he generally wears a mask when he goes out, but was on autopilot when he popped into the Geraldine Pharmacy to pick up a prescription on October 28.  
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> “My feet have a better memory than my head.”  
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> “I walked in there with no mask on. I walked up to the counter, nobody said anything.”  
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> \[…\] Lang said as he was about to leave the pharmacy one of the staff told him to put a mask on.  
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> \[…\] he had been home a couple of hours when police arrived to talk to him about mask compliance.  
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> “Talk about things getting out of hand,” Lang said.  
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> Lang said he told police he wasn’t trying to make a point, and had merely forgotten to put his mask on.  
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> He said the police officer was polite and pleasant.  
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> “He said if you forget again, come over to the police station and grab a mask.”  
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> But, Lang said he was surprised at what he believes is an overreaction.  
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> **“We shouldn’t be controlling it like that, sending the police round.”**  
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> “It’s getting a bit stroppy when police are coming out to an old place like this.”  
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> \[…\] Lang said he now travels to the nearby town of Temuka to go to the chemist, and **intends to bypass the local pharmacy** in the future.  
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What I would like to know is how did the police obtain his name and address details? Isn’t our private personal information held by health providers supposed to remain confidential? Not wearing a mask is not against the law. It is a Health Order but not following it does not constitute a crime. Remember this is the South Island, where there isn’t a single case of Covid! How dare they treat this man like a criminal and reveal his name and address details to the police.

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Geraldine Pharmacy

[Read the article in full here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/126898368/pensioner-surprised-to-get-visit-from-police-for-not-wearing-a-mask?fbclid=IwAR07s5GM1Z%5FdKrMO7G0ubLipQsjUvxxp8RgCr0wRJSG8lcKZ%5F8VIxoT41x0&ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*