Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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Driving TestsDebbiedoesderby wrote: "*Old people. I think after you turn 60 you should have a test every 5 years. "
I would go one further, and suggest that everyone should have to retake their test after X number of years, and that the licence should be a simple "one strike and you're out" affair, where for any offence you have to retake your test.
Expensive for the road user, yep. Driving is a priviledge and not a right.
One thing which does give me rage is people running through red lights, and that's cyclists, drivers, whoever. There is a crossing near my place of work, and I have lost count of the number of near misses I've seen there from people who decide the light doesn't apply to them.
In fact, there's a sign on the crossing now appealing for witnesses to a crash.
Sadly, while many of these near misses have resulted in rage of passersby or would-be victims, the drivers are all too often oblivious, and far away down the road.
So yes, if I ran the country or at least the roads, I would introduce compulsory retesting for road users. You want/need to drive? Fine, prove that you *can.*
Would I fail a retest? Probably, but then I think that most people would. Vote for me, I'll make the roads safer.
(, Tue 17 Oct 2006, 13:01, Reply)
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