article_snippet: (CNN)Vigilante motorists in New Zealand have taken to snatching the car keys of foreign drivers amid rising concern over dangerous driving by tourists.
article_snippet: New Zealand media have reported five cases this year of locals forcibly taking the keys of foreign motorists after witnessing driving that concerned foreign motorists.
article_snippet: The key snatchings have even prompted Prime Minister John Key to weigh in on the issue, advising that "people taking the law into people own hands is not sensible.
article_snippet: New Zealand Police Assistant Commissioner of Road Policing Dave Cliff said the confiscations existed in a legal gray area, as there was no explicit statute dealing with the issue.
article_snippet: Although there might be exceptional circumstances where taking someone's keys could be legally justified, such as preventing drunken driving, New Zealand Police Assistant Commissioner of Road Policing Dave Cliff said, "in the vast majority of cases, it won't be."
article_snippet: That extends to physically assaulting or abusing someone in response to their driving, which is simply not acceptable, and anyone found doing so should expect to face the consequences," New Zealand Police Assistant Commissioner of Road Policing Dave Cliff said.
highlights_snippet: Five tourists have had Five tourists car keys snatched by vigilantes this year .
  
highlights_snippet: The confiscations have taken place amid rising concern over tourist driving behavior .
  