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Key Move Against Drink Drivers

At last someone in Australia is thinking the right way about ending the curse of drink driving.

Laws soon to be introduced in Victoria will mean that dangerous maniacs, who repeatedly go over the limit before hopping into their cars, will have to fit an immobiliser to their death machine.

Before their alcohol-affected brains can start up, they'll have to blow into a tamper-free machine fitted to their car. If they are over the limit, the vehicle won't start.

Brilliant, easy and almost fool proof!

Of course there will be some a-holes who reckon they can get a mate - a designated blower if you like - to foof into the machine for them, however, the sentences are going to be tough for cheats.

Jail beckons those who do and there will be a doubling of the fines imposed!

I reckon drink drivers should also be forced to act as cleaners in Accident and Emergency wards at hospitals then they can see - first hand - the damage caused to bodies by high speed and metal.

Now the new laws will be a great start but, if we want to get serious about reducing the road toll, other measures are needed.

First and foremost I would limit car licences to those who have the brains to drive them. Therefore, no-one with an IQ under 100 would be allowed to hop into a car with a view to driving it.

That also goes for truck drivers - who drive those massive things around our streets at unsafe speeds knowing full-well that if anything happens all they need do is raise their feet to avoid injury. Not so the poor occupants of the squashed car underneath them.

It never ceases to amaze me that those allowed to drive trucks are not exactly cerebrally oriented types. Still, cavemen developed into what we are today so ...

One last point, if the coppers were really interested in lowering the road toll why don't they put speed cameras in dangerous areas?

Everytime I see one, it's on a straight bit of road, with a good flow of traffic and ... hang on, guys, I thought speed cameras weren't revenue raisers? Don't tell me that speeding-fine quotas have been reintroduced?

Gotta go, there's chaos in the dining hall. Matron just chipped a nail while playing World Cup Tiddlywinks and just hit Percy Perkins when he laughed. Oi, Matron, back away, you're out of the game my girl, you've been red carded.

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