Metro bastards
So I got fined R100 by our beloved JPMD (metro cops) a week or two ago. I was doing around 107km/h in a 100 zone. It was 9ish on a Sunday night.
Maybe you don’t see much wrong with this, but David Bullard pointed out in his column on Sunday that if you don’t stop at a STUPID Rosebank intersection (that really has no reason to have a stop street in the first place), you get greeted by a nice surly JPMD officer and a R500 fine. There is a lot wrong with the current metro cop system we have in place. In the mornings, I deliberately take a detour so that I miss this other big intersection in Rosebank – why? Cause the metro bastards are always there. Not stopping taxis or trucks spewing dangerous amounts of crap into the air – but pulling over you and I. For shit. Like not indicating that you’re changing lanes when there aren’t even lane markings to show that the damn lanes exist. Or for ‘driving dangerously’. What a cop out. No-one’s going to have the time to contest that, so what do we do? We pay them. So that they can reach their divisional revenue targets (yes – they have those). So that they can drive new Ford Focus STs or whatever the hell they drive. So that the deficit from non-payments at our dear municipality doesn’t look that bad.
Contrast this to a totally unrelated case but one where, if you do a bit of Chinese maths, you might find yourself a bit pissed off.
Some students got busted at Rhodes last year in their digs with drugs. After the whole argument about how much weed was found, how many pills, will they be excluded, etc, the case was dragged out and they eventually got ‘sentenced’ two weeks ago. The girl, who was in possession of 6 ecstacy pills got… A R500 FINE.
Same as not stopping at a RETARDED intersection in Rosebank. Or is it?
Maybe you don’t see much wrong with this, but David Bullard pointed out in his column on Sunday that if you don’t stop at a STUPID Rosebank intersection (that really has no reason to have a stop street in the first place), you get greeted by a nice surly JPMD officer and a R500 fine. There is a lot wrong with the current metro cop system we have in place. In the mornings, I deliberately take a detour so that I miss this other big intersection in Rosebank – why? Cause the metro bastards are always there. Not stopping taxis or trucks spewing dangerous amounts of crap into the air – but pulling over you and I. For shit. Like not indicating that you’re changing lanes when there aren’t even lane markings to show that the damn lanes exist. Or for ‘driving dangerously’. What a cop out. No-one’s going to have the time to contest that, so what do we do? We pay them. So that they can reach their divisional revenue targets (yes – they have those). So that they can drive new Ford Focus STs or whatever the hell they drive. So that the deficit from non-payments at our dear municipality doesn’t look that bad.
Contrast this to a totally unrelated case but one where, if you do a bit of Chinese maths, you might find yourself a bit pissed off.
Some students got busted at Rhodes last year in their digs with drugs. After the whole argument about how much weed was found, how many pills, will they be excluded, etc, the case was dragged out and they eventually got ‘sentenced’ two weeks ago. The girl, who was in possession of 6 ecstacy pills got… A R500 FINE.
Same as not stopping at a RETARDED intersection in Rosebank. Or is it?
posted by BOb at
11:41
1 Comments:
hey BOb
Long time no hear.
On the topic of not stopping at robots-
I was on my way to visit a friend who lives in Sydenham last Thursday pm,and just adjacent to St Andrews school I stopped at the robot,and was a victim of a regular daily occurrence in this godforsaken town- the 'Smash and Grab' a.k.a having your window stuffed up by what can only be described as a waste of human DNA.
Man, I wish the Jozi Metro was there, to nail his arse to the tarmac.
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