Look, personally, I'm not going to shed any tears if this law comes in. While I do currently enjoy being able to have a beer with a meal and then drive home, it's not the end of the world if you can't do that. Sure, drink coke or something. Everyone did it on P's, its not that big a deal.
HOWEVER, I for one am SICK of the nanny-attitude our governments are rapidly adopting. More and More rules that EVERYONE has to follow, because of a few idiots, even though the majority of the population would be / can be responsible without the laws.
eg:
* 0.00% BAC -> Most people can have a beer, then a bit of a break (coffee or whatever) and drive home without problem. But because a few f**king idiots have to push the rules or flat out disobey them and drive home sloshed, we all (potentially) have to sacrifice this small pleasure.
* Plastic glasses for QLD pubs/clubs - again, most people can go out and drink, have a good time, and not feel the need to glass anyone. But because of a few idiots, everyone is soon going to be drinking their bevvies from plastic, footy match styles
* Intenet filtering -> This particular nanny rule is only in the pipeline because of a few idiots in parliament. They march this under the "save the children" banner, but it won't achieve that at all. They just want to control the internet, because governments these days love to control everything.
* Bans on skateboarding, scooters etc after dark -> what the hell this nanny law is about I have nfi
There's plenty more examples, and most of our road rules (ie Stupidly low speed limits on the majority of QLD roads) are there for the idiots as well. I read an interesting article related to the currently proposal about allowing left turns on red lights. Apparently some bloke in Europe set up a few towns with far less traffic lights, changed a red light to be the equivalent of a stop sign, and relaxed a lot of road rules. The number of traffic incidences in these locations DROPPED. Turns out, if you make drivers MORE responsible for what they are doing when driving, they learn to do it better. This is the complete opposite of QLDs current attitude which keeps slapping more and more nanny rules on to try and bring down the road toll, and hey guess what, its NOT WORKING. Better driver education anyone? Well that's a different debate altogether.
/rant I guess. Its not the end of the world if we can't drink at all and drive, but on the other hand I would like to see and end to the nanny state attitudes. Why should everyone have to sacrifice the simple pleasures in life, because of a few idiots?
Maybe we can just shoot all the idiots instead?
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