Four months 'community sentence' doesn't sound too tough to me. From the article it appears to be home detention. Any Kiwis care to clarify this?
Looks more like the p*ss weak type of sentence we would expect to see in Australia. Personally I'd prefer to see idiots like this receive a custodial sentence for what is endangering life on a potentially large scale (ie aircraft crashes in a residential area, killing all on board and some on the ground)