{"id":46012,"date":"2022-07-04T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/call-to-tighten-new-zealand-law-that-allows-public-pooping-if-no-one-watching"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T03:15:11","slug":"call-to-tighten-new-zealand-law-that-allows-public-pooing-if-no-one-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46012","title":{"rendered":"Call to tighten New Zealand law that allows public pooing if no one watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camping association wants overhaul of law to ensure that waste is properly buried and at least 50 metres from nearest waterway <\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand law allowing people to poo in public \u2013 so long as they do not think they are being watched \u2013 must be tightened, says a freedom camping association, amid long-running allegations that campers are to blame for much of the human waste in the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently an offence to defecate or urinate in a public place (other than in a public lavatory), but, if the person can show they had reasonable grounds for believing they were not being observed, they may be able to escape a $200 fine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/call-to-tighten-new-zealand-law-that-allows-public-pooping-if-no-one-watching\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camping association wants overhaul of law to ensure that waste is properly buried and at least 50 metres from nearest waterway A New Zealand law allowing people to poo in public \u2013 so long as they do not think they are being watched \u2013 must be tightened,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46012\/revisions\/46013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}