On the meter of antisocial behaviour, smashing windows in an ice-fuelled rampage registers higher than going 70 into a 60km/h zone, but you wouldn’t know it.
In Victoria, for example, which is currently in the grips of a communist regime, you will be booked for going 1km/h over the speed limit. Yet an 18-year-old who walked into two jewellery stores in Melbourne, smashed the displays, hit the staff, and stole $200,000 of watches, was told that since he was normally kind, respectful, and humble, he wouldn’t have to go to jail.
"ON THE GRAND SCALE OF FELONIES, IT'S NOT THAT TERRIBLE"
Now you might think that ice is the unacceptable element here, but I’m not sure about that either. Because just recently the Australian Capital Territory announced a pill-testing amnesty program at public events, which means you can take your substances to a special stand, where’ll they’ll be tested to make sure they’re actually meth and not just paint stripper. A boffin-in-chief said, “We’re talking about safe drug use. We want people to be as safe as they can be when they’re using drugs, and that means knowing what they’re actually using.”
“It won’t be promoting drug use, but it won’t be condemning drug use either. It will be a non-judgmental approach.” So there goes that. If you want to take ice, your choice. Just make sure it’s actually ice, bro.
And even if you’re not on ice, and you vandalise, on the grand scale of felonies it doesn’t seem to be all that terrible. Take graffiti, for example. Apparently, it’s possible for the police to get the 15-year-olds who sprayed blasphemies on your new fence, because they each have a discernible style, usually known to police, and it can be proven by rocking up to the paint shop and asking for the CCTV footage of their mum buying it. But with 97.8% of the local constabulary manning laser guns and arresting praying elderlies outside abortion clinics, a more innovative solution had to be found. And it was. Special graffiti areas were created, where you could legally express yourself with the paint can to your heart’s desire. I won’t say if it’s been a tremendous success or not, because that would wreck my point.
Which is this. We need to stop stigmatising hoons and periodic speeders, and browbeating them into thinking they’re evil people. We need instead to provide an alternative avenue for them to indulge safely, because at the end of the day, they’re going to indulge anyway.
We need, in short, a free speedway.
He is not a bad person, really. But his street-racer talent struggles for an outlet to breathe. A collaborative approach is what's needed. (PC: Netcarshow.com)
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They have this in Germany essentially. It seems to work. If people want to drive fast, safely - they can!
Yes, though doing burnouts on the Autobahns is verboten.
Germans are far too sensible for burnouts!
Yes! I am so glad somebody has said this 👏
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I agree all the way John. Perhaps even make each lane posted on a free way posted the minimum speed for that lane. Say the slow lane a car must achieve at least 80 mph, middle lanes 90 to 100, leaving the fast lane for people who dare to do 100 plus mph and they best move if someone is traveling faster than they are.
Yes, let's upgrade the roads to make that possible, wait a week of carnage while all the right-lane-hogs and duckers and weavers are killed, then we should be good.
You have my
Vote if you run for Governor of Michigan.
I kind of agree with what you're saying.
But politically speaking there is one big hang up.
A traffic fatality that could remotely have been avoided if both parties were keeping to the speed limit is a death caused by speeding.
Nobody died in that robbery, nobody died of graffiti, and only the user of paintstripper ice dies.
If an innocent child dies in traffic by a speeder that is a huge tragedy.
All the more reason for having a safety valve. We don't feel that street racers and other occasional speeders are bad people who want to kill babies, but there's no doubt that suppressing natural talent and desire for expression, is leading...
Read moreI'm with you all the way on what you're saying.
It's just that the drama that can flow from an incident where a driver did X mph over the limit can be enormous. Even though going X mph didn't cause it and doing the limit would not likely have...
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