04-20-2009, 12:09 PM
There needs to be a law called "distracted driving" or some such.
Which involves being drunk and driving.
Driving with a dog in your lap.
Driving with stupid tires that can't turn or brake.
Driving talking on the phone.
Driving while "on" anything.
And the penalties should be extreme. There were 120-130 fatalities on roads on this island last year. Most were directly attributable to stupid driving.
I've gone out and retrieved fatalities of people killed in their HOUSE when a drunk ran through their bedroom wall. It's a big problem, and an unnecessary one.
I've also seen the major of a town I lived in--in an event I won't mention, crush 3 cars in a parking lot with cops looking on, and got an escort home--I wouldn't care, except a friend of mind got a DUI that same night on a BICYCLE.
Well, there you go.
Which involves being drunk and driving.
Driving with a dog in your lap.
Driving with stupid tires that can't turn or brake.
Driving talking on the phone.
Driving while "on" anything.
And the penalties should be extreme. There were 120-130 fatalities on roads on this island last year. Most were directly attributable to stupid driving.
I've gone out and retrieved fatalities of people killed in their HOUSE when a drunk ran through their bedroom wall. It's a big problem, and an unnecessary one.
I've also seen the major of a town I lived in--in an event I won't mention, crush 3 cars in a parking lot with cops looking on, and got an escort home--I wouldn't care, except a friend of mind got a DUI that same night on a BICYCLE.
Well, there you go.