But speeding? He was recorded driving at 25mph in a 20mph zone.
Two points; First, The Wellington City Council now seek to introduce these farcically low speed limits in the CBD. It’s madness. On current trends we will soon revert to the early days of cars in which they must be preceded by someone walking in front and holding up a white flag.
The other point is the heavy financial penalty for such a petty offence.
Here, one can literally get away with murder, as indeed happened recently (a disqualified drunk driver killing a cyclist) and cop 10 months home detention. We must have the lightest penalties in the world.
El Salvador has incurred condemnation for building a giant prison then gathering up 40,000 plus gang members and locking them up.
But the El Salvador public love it as the murder rate has now gone down from the world’s highest to zero.
The brilliant Evelyn Waugh foresaw all of this 70 years back with his 1953 comic novella “Love Among the Ruins” in which criminals were the victims and those they offended against copped public denunciation.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE.
Here, one can literally get away with murder, as indeed happened recently (a disqualified drunk driver killing a cyclist) and cop 10 months home detention. We must have the lightest penalties in the world.
El Salvador has incurred condemnation for building a giant prison then gathering up 40,000 plus gang members and locking them up.
But the El Salvador public love it as the murder rate has now gone down from the world’s highest to zero.
The brilliant Evelyn Waugh foresaw all of this 70 years back with his 1953 comic novella “Love Among the Ruins” in which criminals were the victims and those they offended against copped public denunciation.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE.
5 comments:
I doubt if Tory Whanau will get another suck of the sav after what she is doing.
She says she is so conflicted, poor lambie.
MC
unfortunately so very very true
Wellington CBD.
They need 3 wheeler tricycles, with metal panniers fore & aft and a place to put an umbrella.
The Current Council can "foot the Bill" (as said scheme would fit their collective "Clean & Green" initiatives -
- to have the bikes - Made in NZ [just imagine the amount of metal recycling that could be achieved here, to build them],
- ensure regular maintenance (using as casual labour, all those who sit around the CBD doing nothing [that excludes Civil servants on Lunch Breaks])
- provide it as free service - basically a "click & collect": and leave at an end point [will need a turn around point at Parliament, once Civil Servants have returned to work, using said means of transport]
- helmets as an optional extra, as only "a numpty" would fall off one, unless they returning to work, on said tricycle from (a liquid) Lunch on Courtney Place!
Yes Sir Bob J, I remember Wellington well, where each night the "voices of the Paper Boys rang high" when they sold NEWSPAPERS, that were readable.
Sadly posted by ANON, a resident of NZ.
Yes, our systems are screwed around big time.
Wellington, dont worry too much, council have just scored a bag of money to look at catering for more cyclists. In Wellington for gods sake, about the hilliest city in the country. Imagine all those middle aged people racing down the gorge than have to struggle back up in the afternoon. Then do it again ad infinitum.
Madness.
I used to drive constantly searching for hazards, especially near schools. Now I drive with my attention concentrated largely on hunting for speed signs, and checking the speedo, fathoming lane demarcations, and peering in the trick distorting mirror checking for vehicles and bikes passing on the left, for decades a forbidden act requiring minimal monitoring.
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