The old people driving issue
April 06, 2000
It’s on Justin and Dennis’ sites now so i’ll put my thought onto it. The elderly do tend to drive like well, grandmas. They tend to follow the rules more or less and putt putt putt along in their 1975 Chevies or Fords.
Well the issue is that an elderly lady killed some woman while driving and didn’t know it. So they took her license away. Well, I agree with Justin in that if you hit anything, be it a lady, a dog, a tree (haha sorry, had to say it), you will definitely notice. I also agree that going 50kph, ANY car is very destructive.
Dennis has good points too: these things cannot be prevented. I think it can be prevented, but at a cost of our freedom and rights. Harsher penalties for the elderly isn’t plausible since in our law system, you cannot segregrate any group and give them different punishments (minors excluded). What I suggest is that when having driver licenses renewed, there should be more tests that are more strict that would eliminate all the dangerous drivers. Fuck, if you drag a person in a car for awhile, oblivious to their screams, you definitely should not be on the road.
My thoughts: the lady should be charged to the full extent of the law regardless of her age or past record. A crime is a crime and be it an 80 something or a twenty something, the outcome should be the same. Personally, I feel most sympathy for the kids. Having a mother killed by a freak accident like this.
That reminds me of a rather heartwrenching story I heard awhile back. I heard on the radio maybe half a year ago, that a single mother died from diabetes. Her 6 or 7 year old girl didn’t know what happened and went through the night. She microwaved leftovers, watched tv, and then slept next to her mother’s body.
Authorities found out when the girl was crying in class, telling her teacher that her mom was dead. Her fucking idiot of a teacher said not to say stuff like that, that it was inappropriate.
When I heard that, my heart shuddered and I imagined what it would be like had I been that little girl. There was no one for her to turn to and I doubt she has anyone right now. This world is plagued with crimes and hatred and violence and I don’t care. But when I heard this, I cared. Death is a natural thing and usually I disregard deaths I hear on the news but for some reason, this story really got to me.
Whatever. I sincerely hope the little girl has better days and that no other child will go through what she went through.
I’ll leave now all depressed. Huzz… whatever…
New webpage update
I got home today and looked at the design and felt it was missing something. So I had to recreate the whole design. But I worked at it all afternoon and I’m back where I was last night. I have no expected day of it being up since I have 3 finals next week. Stupid finals.
Update [00:49]
The new webpage, which is officially just going to be called JVision (but is really jv2.2), is about 50% complete. Need to write some more stuff, pop some links in, and boom. Done.
MUST SEE: Pics from DF2K. Go see it at Jesse’s.
MUST SEE: This was sent to me just now.
