Dunedin appears set to bring in a shiny new bylaw to ban freedom campers from staying overnight in the city.
That raises the inevitable question of how to stop people in cars who drive on roads - people who have heard how great our city is and want to visit us - crossing the city's borders.
These are our suggestions:
1. Build a wall, and make freedom campers pay for it.
2. Introduce a complete ban on parking anywhere in the city so the freedom campers have nowhere to stop and are forced to drive round and round the block until they expire.
3. Develop a communications campaign targeted at freedom campers highlighting Dunedin's downsides; its terrible weather, its frumpy, recalcitrant citizens, and the mean streak inherent in the local criminal classes. Hope it is not shared on social media where other tourists might see it.
4. Build a facsimile of the Colossus of Rhodes with a battered station wagon hanging beneath its flaming torch at every entrance to the city as a warning to those who might transgress the bylaw.
