The USS Quad Damage

I thought I’d save up a few younger drivers are bad kthxbai posts and roll them all into one.

First up there’s the police charging 4 drivers with street racing and speeding.

Two at Colyton and two at Ashfield.

The first comprised on doind 120kph on a dead straight 6 lane section of the Great Western Highway and 130kmh on the 6 lane 110kph speed limit M4.

The second was 120kph on another 6 lane dead straight section of the Great Western Highway except it was at Ashfield.

Both happened outside of peak hours. 8:30pm and 9:20pm respectively. I assume this means that there were few cars on the road at the time and minimal if any pedestrian traffic.

Meanwhile outside of the commercial publications on the ABC website there was a 42 year old doing 200kph whom rolled his car on a piece of flat 2 lane road in rural South Australia. Clearly not news because he’s old which means that it was just some guy testing out his new car for kicks and not reckless endangerment of life. Which would have been the case if he’d been doing far less and on a much safer road and been under the age of 25 or with a provisional licence.

There’s calls from an Associate Professor to ban driving until the age of 18 on evidence that younger people have higher per driver fatalities than older people and that males, aboriginals and people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have higher fatality rates. One could easily argue that the two most important reasons older people have fewer fatal car crashes is because they can afford safer cars and the worst drivers have already been culled from the driving population pool (see the story below). Never the less the idea proposed is that better driver education is the answer which leads to…

Another news.com.au article which highlights the lack of road rules knowledge by drivers above the age of 25. Which highlights the little known danger of driver education. In that the more knowledgeable someone is with the road rules the greater their chance of being involved in a fatal car crash. Since younger people or the vast majority of new drivers have to know the road rules or they can’t get their licence which is why they were ommited from the test.

Once there was a city who felt that their citizens were too short and wanted to do something about it. They tried all sorts of things until one day a traveling holy man came to the city and said his god could help. All the city folk needed to do was sacrifice tall people to his god and he would bless them with taller children.

The people were skeptical as no one would willingly sacrifice themselves and any method they could think of such as a lottery or vote would surely disadvantage people or be used by corrupt officials.

The holy man suggested that each person should have an equal chance as anyone else of being sacrificed according to their height. Thus once every year all the towns people would need to gather and roll the same holy 100 sided dice. On this dice were 3 marked sides corresponding to 160, 170 and 180 cm heights. If you rolled one of those sides and were taller than the side you were sacrificed.

Everyone agreed that this was a fair method and implimented it.

Decades latter the people wanted to know if the god they had been sacrificing the taller members of their society to had indeed blessed their city with taller children. Thus they took a sensis and measured everyone in the city. Sure enough the average height of the younger generation was taller than the older generation and records indicated that every year there were more younger people sacrificed per person than older people per person.

Thus it was deemed to be a success and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the city would be eventually filled with giants their mighty god was indeed real.

Guys, I’ve just entered the canon photo5 competition. Please do so as well. It’ll give us something to do between now and October. Also, we can win Canon Schwag if we’re good enough!