There's a letter to the editor in this weeks AMCN regarding a West Aussie that died last month in Dwellingup - blue metal on road - a corner - and he hit it not knowing anything - no signs or warning. Just blue metal left in a pile.
Not good enough :shakehead:
Normally I'm not someone who thinks sueing is the answer to everything, but with something like that, since our justice system is a total joke, I hope the victims family sue both the council and all the workers involved.
I mean seriously what kind of council allows such a shoddy level of work to be done, and what kind of workers totally negate their duty of care by leaving such a dangerous hazard on the road particularly without signs.
Working in the service industry, if there is a few drops of water on the ground a wet floor sign is put down and we spend the rest of the shift until it is totally dry and safe actively telling people to be careful, watch their step, etc.
Its really sickening because there will no doubt be some council funded investigation which 'proves' it was totally the riders fault so they can get away scott free.
Its the same when anything goes wrong, OH look someones job is to take care of that, but instead of just putting the responsibility on the person who is paid to actually do the job, we will investigate the case, and then we will blame someone whoes responsibility it wasn't at the time and make them the ones who have to fix it in future, and THEN when they actually do it, we will criticise how and what they did.
On a seperate note, I was about an inch away from having some cager douchebag run straight into me today. I normally drive the car down to work on a saturday morning to save myself the 10minute walk because I am always running late, especially when I was working till 1am at my other job the night before, but anyway, after finally finishing I went back got in my car, was very careful pulling out of the parking onto the main road, and 200m down the road there was a T intersection with a smaller road connecting to the main. I was on the main road, I put my blinker on indicating I am going to be turning right, and watch as some idiot rolls down towards the give way sign, and then despite me already being mid turn (in a bright red car with blinkers flashing), he continues straight through the give way sign and stops literally inches from my car.
He obviously was blind, and totally mentally ill if he honestly didn't see me till he almost hit me.... I think the lucky thing was that there was a learner on a motorcycle right behind me, and if I hadn't been there its quite possible he would have taken them out instead.
It just totally irritates me however that in a situation where he had absolutely no right of way, plenty of vision, and heaps of time and space, he still managed to do every possible thing wrong.
I can kind of see now how some accidents happen when people who are obviously morons do something so totally illogical and stupid that even watching you could not possibly have entertained the thought they would take the action they did.
yeah we do play you , local derby & all that (insert Biff smilie here :rockon
...... I am worried bout this game because it local rivalry , its always tough.. And now that Coops is out *gulp*
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and sydney spends billions on a tunnel but they cant fix the roads alreay there in need of repair:spank:
....lol...Ok. Back to the tar snakes.
