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When I went out last night I saw two kids riding micro scooters on the road and two on bikes without lights. The ones one scooters looked about 13 and were at least just going along the road keeping to the left. The ones on bikes who looked a couple of years older were weaving about getting in the way of traffic and then went the wrong way up a one way street. I don't know if it will take an accident for them to learn.
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The one-and-only time I rode a bike without lights a copper nabbed me, gave me a good rollicking and made me walk home pushing the bike. There are not enough police on the streets despite what 'they' tell us.
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Reminds me of when I used to get home from the pub by hoop-and-stick.
One night I was wobbling a bit and an officer stopped me and said "I'll have to take that 'oop and stick lad, seeing as you've had one too many"
"But how will I get home ociffer" I said...........
I'll get me coat
jd
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My sentiments entirely GoG. But you were lucky......
I was nabbed riding a bike without lights ( or brakes come to that ) - got a talking to from the copper , walked it home two miles and my Dad had a visit from him as well - then I got a belt round the ear from the old man ( a very rare occurrence )for not keeping my bike up to standard.
But it never did me any harm and like the Robocop no mercy approach in Middlesborough it worked.
Its the getting away with the little misdeamenours like vandalism and bikes on pavements , graffiti , breaking windows which affect all our live and IMO that leads to worse crimes.
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Seems to me that the parents are often to partially, if not wholly to blame by NOT teaching their children about things like road safety - or much else for that matter! It's no surprise to me that kids who've never been told off, corrected or properly advised about anything important do things that are stupid, antisocial and/or dangerous. Yes, some children do just go off the rails for some reason but many are only emulating the very poor example set by their parents and peers.
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Exactly my sentiments VM.
Scary thing is waht is going to happen with the children when they are parents. Its a downhill slope me thinks.
DVD
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I also think the demonification (is that a word?) of the motorist doesnt help. Adverts, news articles all directed at motorists and rarely (if ever) directed at far more concerning issues, like pedestrians, cyclists etc...
An example is that ad about the car doing 35 and the kid getting knocked over, how about an ad telling people not to just run out into the road?
Helicopter, Robocop was doing an excellent job, too good for his superiors, so they got rid of him!
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Yeah but the parents of these silly kids are probably the ones who drive around like idiots not paying attention to anything and it's quite right to demonise anyone who does that IMO. No one group is solely to blame for the problems of which we speak but surely adults should know better and if they don't it's not too surprising that their children act in similar fashion.
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The illegal immigrant who knocked that child down is surely an example of that. The child must have done something silly for them to have acquitted him of dangerous driving.
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I also think the demonification (is that a word?) of the motorist doesnt help.
I think its "Demonisation", althoiguh I don't know why.
Regards
Vercin
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If only I could spell although
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Those were the days when coppers were plentiful and worldy wise.
When I got nabbed for no rear light on my lambretta, he made me push it two miles to the local cop shop (which was his house with an offcie attached to it). he said "you want it back you go and buy a bulb, fit it there, show me its working and then you can ride it away."
No points, no fine, simple justice sensibly administered. It wasnt that long ago either in the scheme of things - 1970 I think.
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>>he made me push it two miles to the local copshop ...
Ligher note
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was the local constabulary questioning some 'lads' in a shopping trolley in the wee small hours...
"we found it"
'Well, take it BACK to where you found it"
The lads were handcuffed to said trolley, and had to push it a fair way to the supermarket (about 1.5 kms!).
Plod left them to it, and returned later, to undo them, at said carpark!
On a serious side
This was posted BY ME on a local motoring site ... Now, many folk may see it as racist, but I can assure you it is REALIST.[to settle the argument before it starts, my missus is 'of colour'....
Many of the indigenous people from the poorer areas of the old T'Kei and C'Kei [tribal areas - ed!]have probably never seen a motorway/main road before. their sole experience of traffic will come from witnessing tattered old pick-ups grinding along a potholed gravel road. The fastest thing they've ever seen is a horse doing 30km/h.
Comes the trip to the 'city' - a bit of a culture shock for them! - and they haven't a clue.
To dilute the race issue, imagine if YOU, as an experienced 'city slicker' here in good-ol RSA found yourself in the New York of 2055 ... sounds silly? Yep, but that's what you are dealing with.
I have had, in that neighbourhood, several near-misses with people clueless as to speed/distances etc. I have also witnessed several pedestrian/car encounters - each time when the pedestrian 'just ran in front of me'...
My brother hit a woman once - ran straight in front of the car. Nasty mess - fortunately she survived.
Maybe these kids are still of the 'indigenous' mindset? And haven't got a clue about sppeds/distances/stopping distances etc.
Sorry for the rant...
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