UnNews:New Zealand PM apologises for pulling waitress' hair

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

What would have made the act all the more painful is that Key is in the Guinness Book of Records for having the largest hands in politics.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has apologised to a woman who works at an Auckland cafe for repeatedly pulling her hair.

The unnamed waitress wrote in a blog that he had tugged her ponytail on several occasions, even after she had asked him not to. Mr Key's office said on Wednesday that his actions were meant to be "light-hearted" and he apologised.

The waitress has accepted the apology, but warned Mr Key that if he tries it again, he will have her dad to deal with.

The incident comes soon after Key's controversial 2014 election campaign, in which he admitted he thought cooties came out of girls' bums, and tried to initiate a game of kiss-chase at a Woman's Institute.

The phenomenon is not restricted to New Zealand. Across the Tasman in Australia, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard lifted up her skirt and showed her knickers to everyone at the Christmas Labor Party dance, and her successor Tony Abbot recently apologised for stretching his penis as far as it would go while he sat in his parents' pram on the beach.

Sources

• Leverage, "New Zealand PM John Key apologises for hair-pulling" BBC, April 22, 2015