Nine dead - who cares?

You are the creator of the absolute worst of threads.

Thank god I can't sit down and read OcUK without my coffee being literally BLOWN over my face the second I click your anti-globalization, anti-bush, anti-war, anti anything that isn't cool. A furore of WESTERN ANGER at how STUPID WE ARE.

Remember, it's cool to be in my face with your opinions that are kept down by THE MAN.

Again, many thanks for alerting me to something else I don't care about. But that's what you wanted anyway. You Anti-globalization types are on a much higher plinth than the rest of us.
 
Unfortunately, I had to deal with one on Saturday. Young boy lost control whiile showing off in his brother's Impreza. Two of his friends where seriously injured and one later died in hospital. I do feel sorry for the driver as he will probably face a prison term and don't think there is one of us on this forum that can't say 'there but for the grace of God'.
 
seen Michael Schumacher on the ch4 news earlier getting interviewed about the road safety campaign thing hes involved in


the ****** interviewer started trying to spin the campaign saying Schumacher causes accidents because kids try and drive like him :p

what a tale
 
Shackley said:
Read posting before this. As eddiemcgarrigle says : 'there but for the grace of God'.

Still, I guess that the "Curse of Darwin" will probably get you lot ;)
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Seems like the typical little gutter sniper you are, anything that shows you up for the hollow advocate of anything counter culture is best avoided.

Kudos.
 
1 death is a tragedy, 10,000 death is a statistic. i guess this is the same thing, you said it your self, 9 people die on road in average.
btw its a Stalin quote
 
shimy182 said:
1 death is a tragedy, 10,000 death is a statistic. i guess this is the same thing, you said it your self, 9 people die on road in average.
btw its a Stalin quote
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Jesus, that's a Stalin quote?

Can't be serious. I've never heard that one before.
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Unfortunately, I had to deal with one on Saturday. Young boy lost control whiile showing off in his brother's Impreza. Two of his friends where seriously injured and one later died in hospital. I do feel sorry for the driver as he will probably face a prison term and don't think there is one of us on this forum that can't say 'there but for the grace of God'.
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I hope the driver gets a lengthy prison term. Why should we feel sorry for him?

If we should feel sorry for anyone it's the person that has lost his life.
 
Dolph said:
Tell it to the councils who are trying to do more to mix cars and pedestrians rather than seperate them... Plymouth city council recently filled in about 6 subways and replaced them with pelican crossings, for example.
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Thing is with that, if people were too afraid to use the subways (especially at night) they would probably just end up legging it across the road anyway, having a crossing would be vastly safer.
 
divine_madness said:
Thing is with that, if people were too afraid to use the subways (especially at night) they would probably just end up legging it across the road anyway, having a crossing would be vastly safer.
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Well, except that was never actually a problem with the subways concerned...
 
Shackley said:
Road deaths have certainly been reducing over the past 40 years and that is undoubtedly a good thing - perhaps there is a correlation - the more congested the traffic, the fewer people killed? Bring on gridlock! As it happens, I suspect that improvements in the annual MOT test have as much if not more effect.

However, I really don't think that many sane people could be satisfied that more than 3,200 people are killed and many thousands are permanently disabled needlessly every year as a result of accidents on our roads.
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It's got nothing to do with gridlock, it's to do with the reduction in the number of ninjas. Less ninjas = fewer road deaths! :)
 
Shackley said:
Why is it that we as a society are so disinterested in the deaths of nine people every single day?
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Because we dont know them.

Frankly, if a stranger dies I just dont give a toss. I'll bet everyone on here is the same too, despite all the 'RIPs' you get whenever someone unknown dies. I care if its someone I know, either directly, in real life, or even on a forum, but otherwise I just dont. I didnt feel any genuine sympathy last week when that gunman in virginia went postal. I doubt anyone on here did really if they are truly honest. How many people lost a minutes sleep? I didnt feel anything when the twin towers fell, or in the 7/7 bombings. It was quite riveting news, and obviously a tragedy for those with relatives involved etc, but the only time something GENUINELY affects me is when it involves kids. kids being murdered or dieing in accidents does make me upset, mostly because having two of my own it makes me think how I'd feel if it was them, plus kids are generally truly innocent in the context of their deaths.

Thats not to say reasonable steps shouldnt be taken to make the roads safer, but as someone else said, at the end of the day you've got a mix of young people who feel immortal, sales reps desperate to get to the next meeting, ****** in unsafe cars and, in general, a fairly stupid, unobservant populace obsessed with pretty much anything apart from keeping their eyes on the road. When you look at it that way 9 deaths a day isn't that bad.
 
Right now, Channel 4:

Cutting Edge

The A46 in Lincolnshire is known as one of Britain's most dangerous roads. This uncompromising biography of a 'killer road' includes moving interviews with people who have lost loved ones to accidents along the infamous black spot and examines how a split-second decision can change lives forever.
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People only care when the media paints a picture of them, thousands and thousands die in Africa everyday from civil war, famine, AIDS, drugs...etc..etc. The only time the media does anything is when Bob Geldof decides he wants to put on a concert.

Unless you know that person, or the media gives us their background, people wouldn't care.
 
Raymond Lin said:
The only time the media does anything is when Bob Geldof decides he wants to put on a concert.
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Reminds me of Bono clapping his hands every few seconds.... saying "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

Voice from the crowd: "Well stop ****ing doing it then!!!"

:D
 
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