Well what a surprise, Police have had to step in, due to a surge in complaints about unlawful community roadblocks.

Who didn't see this coming?

This is in Northland, where apparently roadblocks were put in place to stop people accessing the beach.

The small problem here, apart from the outrageousness of these community roadblocks even being allowed, and sanctioned by the government.. is that at Level 3 you're actually allowed to access the beach.

So Northland residents who'd taken it upon themselves to dish out some rules to locals, didn't even have the rules right.

Which again begs the question, how are a bunch of amateurs even allowed to enforce any kind of laws or rules in the first place.. especially when they can't even get those rules right?

The Police said they'll "continue to work with small communities to help educate them about what Level 3 means and ensure the public has access to public locations including beaches.."

Random suggestion - but how about less Police time is spent educating self appointed roadblockers, and more time is spent just cancelling them.

Why are they there?

Why do you need them?

Why are they allowed to just make up the rules as they go and block their own locals from public places which are open under Level 3?

This latest fiasco comes hard on the heels of several other complaints about community roadblocks being intimidating, Kiwis feeling unsafe at them, gangs enforcing them, people being stopped and asked questions when they're just trying to get from A to B in their own community. It's madness.

How do they have the authority to do this?

Why did the PM say they could?

And does she have the power to do that? Does a verbal 'oh they're just protecting their communities', suffice as a green light for them to take the law into their own hands?

We've heard the story of the man in his 70's held at a roadblock by a gang member when he was out trying to buy milk, we had the couple who said they were harassed and illegally detained.

Those two stories in the past couple of weeks alone should've given the PM pause, and a reason to shut them down, or at least for the Police to step in and stop them.

Police say they're 'working with' the community roadblockers, but this is just another example of that not actually being the case.

There's so much going on right now which is all theory, no reality.

There is a serious disconnect between what's happening in the echo chamber of the Wellington leadership bubble and what's happening out here in the real world.

Memo to the Beehive bubble: Less talk, more action.