Dumb Kids Cost Me Money
A song to personify my disposition: Neverland (F.I.R)
Yesterday I recieved a Infringement Notice for going 58km/h in a 40 zone in one of the major roads down near Kogarah during peak hour... WTH?! Okay, I totally disagree with having a 40 zone on such a busy road during the time of day where most pple are rushing to work...
Again our society chooses to favour the lowest common denominator. At the risk of sounding old, when I was in school none of my friends, or anyone in my school rather, got hit by anything (except for that idiot who was soccer in the bus lane, but he was ok cause the ball somehow managed to cusion his head from the bus)...
Kids are nymble and should be smart enuf to get out of the way of a moving object. Its actually the older pple who need help in this... as we get older our reaction slows and our hearing gets worse, so we have less chance of dodgy high speed objects. For example, a few years ago at UNSW a post-grad student was crushed by a truck. The truck was stationary and the breaks failed and eventually slid down the hill it was parked on and pinned the lady to a wall. As tragic as it was (I was there) I find it hard to envision how it could have happened... The truck would not have reached a great speed in that short distance and surely any normal person could have moved out of the way in time... and it was a BIG truck, so there's not really any chance of not seeing it coming towards you...
So what's my point? Well, if we don't teach kids to look where they are going then they will never develop these kind of skills later in life... Those who work in the city will know that it takes skill to efficiently walk through the city and not get run-over...
So stoopid laws like school zone speeds are making our society weaker. Another testimony that evolution doesn't really work for humans... cause from the looks of things stoopid pple are ever on the increase... and our society is always catering for the idiotic and weak...
BRING BACK THE BIFF!!!
