I was on holiday for a month or so in NZ in 1995. Some of the stupid helicopter antics I saw going on out there made my hair stand on end. With myself having been in the helicopter business for almost twenty years already back then, my kids wanted to fly on a sightseeing trip but I would not under any circumstances let them fly with the operators we saw in "cowboy action".
I later read in that year 10% of all the NZ civilian registered helicopters were lost to "accidents". I was in no way surprised.