tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post2981692821538874836..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Safetyhederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-25500923050463982372013-12-02T11:05:55.548-08:002013-12-02T11:05:55.548-08:00Curtis, nobody listens to me either, but every onc...Curtis, nobody listens to me either, but every once in a while I have to shout into the void. We've changed a lot from the people who climbed into Conestoga Wagons to go Out West, haven't we?hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-47604302643376020192013-12-02T07:54:41.320-08:002013-12-02T07:54:41.320-08:00Wow.
I'm speechless.
I've been saying ...Wow.<br /><br />I'm speechless. <br /><br />I've been saying this for years and no one ever listens. People just stare blankly at you as if you were a maniac.<br /><br />"Safety" always has a staunchly responsible ring to it. Everyone wants safety, but in our culture, the principle is frequently abused and enterprised. <br /><br />All around Berkeley, neighborhoods are putting up humps and barriers and islands and bike lanes and moving sidewalks into the street and reducing parking and increasing fines. We all paid for the construction of our roads, so that we could drive on them. They weren't built so that a few people living in "neighborhoods" could have exclusive use of them, and discourage everyone else from doing so. <br /><br />If police couldn't make money from cars and traffic, they wouldn't spend a minute tending to traffic safety. Which is why they don't chase real crime--there's no pay-off. <br /><br />No one should be allowed to walk or ride a bike on the Golden Gate Bridge, because 1 in a million may decide to jump off it. Nonsense.<br /><br />I remember a park ranger who wanted to put me in jail for climbing on the rocks at the Devil's Postpile National Monument. I suppose the point is that if I'd fallen and broken my leg, I could have sued the National Park Service for negligence. <br /><br />What a world we live in.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com