Yep, you read that right.
And it has already applied for welfare and disability.
IUK: A river in New Zealand has become the first in the world to be recognised as a living entity with its own rights and values and given the legal status of a person.
The Whanganui River, located in the north island of New Zealand, has a special and spiritual importance for the Maori people.
The New Zealand Parliament has just passed a bill which gives the river the ability to represent itself through human representatives, one appointed by a Maori community, known as Iwi, and one by the Crown, New Zealand news service Newshub reports.
The new status of the Whanganui River, or Te Awa Tupua, is believed to be unique in the world.
The Maori people recognise the river as part of the living mountains and the sea.
Chris Finlayson, who negotiated the treaty, said the Whanganui Iwi had fought for recognition of the people’s relationship with the river since the 1870s. MORE
Old Man River?
We named our outhouse Stan when we had a cottage in the 50’s.
Can you sue the river for damages if it floods or someone drowns in it?
Archival footage of Whakarewarewa Village Whanganui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c1MtMZ1qo
30 second translation mind trip to start.
Polyglots will catch some.
Enjoy.
So much for NZ as a preferred destination for the apocalypse.
On the flip side, being human does not mean you are automatically granted person-hood.
I’m sure a legal eagle here could elaborate.
You need to stay away from that river during its monthly flow.
Typical lazy welfare river: refuses to get out of bed. And dishonest, too: it kites checks between banks.
Lol! The other day I found a “Sip, Scratch, Score” trivia game on a cup of coffee. The question was, “Kieth Urban is a native of which country?”
Ahhh, I got this, I know Kieth Urban is a US country singer.
Wrong, the goof is from New Zealand!
Must be the influence of all those liberals moving from California.
Amazing just how far courts will now go to prove themselves so very protective of aboriginal sensitivities. They could have ruled the river protected with any change to it (damns, construction projects, re-direction etc) subject to approval by a panel. Instead they give it some quasi official designation as a person which you can be guaranteed will be abused by some group to embarrass the government at some point.
Ha ha ha!
And there are some who think it’s just America that’s infested with shit-weasels, twat-waffles, shit-pickle-eaters, and fart-sniffers!
Fuckin morons … everywhere you look … any direction … any rotation …
izlamo delenda est …
How can you give that which was not made in the image of God the same title of that which was made in His image?
J: Are you saying that God doesn’t have the Power to assume the form of a river if He wanted to?
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The whole world has gone insane!
Take that, you tree-huggers! We got a river to be a person.
BTW, anyone know the gender identity this river assumes?
Leftists, progressives, and eco-nuts are bat-shit crazy insane.
@Burner: I’m guessing “Gender Fluid”.
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gender%20fluid
@Good ole Stan: Lotsa outhouses in the Middle East have that name too: Paki-Stan, Afghani-Stan, Uzbeki-Stan…
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