Have you seen this article on the cbc.ca website about a woman from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Patricia Regular, who, since last May, has hit three – YES, THREE – moose, and is now in a snit, wanting the government to ‘do something’ about it??
Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
She has written off 2 cars. In 10 months. Hitting 3 moose.
What the hell is this woman still doing with a driver’s license? THAT'S what the government should be doing about it!! They should be stripping this nutjob's driver's license from her.
My little friend the moose here is wearing sunglasses because he's too embarrassed to be associated with such a dumb story.
She drives back and forth from Harbour Grace to Clarke's Beach for work. There are long-haul transport truck drivers who drive 20 or 30 times what she does in the run of a day, and they're not having that many accidents.
IF they ARE, they're not stupid enough to put their name out there, admitting to being such dangerous drivers.
One thing I just noticed about this article... It says, as I just mentioned, that the accidents all happened between Harbour Grace and Clarke's Beach, yet the latest accident happened on the Conception Bay South highway. A small geographical inconsistency there, methinks. Are they considering Clarke's Beach to be Conception Bay SOUTH? That's ridiculous, if so. But I digress...
So this dame drives, according to Google Maps, 23km to work...
...and has hit three moose...
...in 10 months. Frankly, I'm just plain gobsmacked.
...and has hit three moose...
What a nerve for her to demand the government spend MY tax dollars to take action on the moose problem, when it is clearly a Patricia Regular problem? She was stupid enough to say that she had "turned for a second, then bang". THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM, LADY!!! KEEP YOUR FRIGGIN' EYES ON THE ROAD!!!! Dammit all, if I had collided with one, and certainly TWO moose in less than a year, I don't think I'd blink for the whole 23km trip, let alone "turn for a second". She's a moron.
So now all the bleeding hearts will resurrect the notion of building fences and underpasses for the goddamned moose. It's not just the $$$ required to build the fence, you know. We get snow here, lots of it. Fences break, then they'd need repairs. More and more tax dollars being thrown away, when the real, effective solution is ridiculously simple...
SLOW THE HELL DOWN AND KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED WHEN YOU ARE BEHIND THE WHEEL ON THE HIGHWAY.
Moose won't die. People won't die. My taxes will be spent on something legitimate instead.
It's just as stupid as people who blame all the accidents on the Outer Ring Road, on the ROAD!! My personal message to the idiots who say this - It's not the road or the moose!! IT'S YOU!!!!!!!
And, for the sake of argument, what if a fence was built? Does that then mean that the Patricia Regulars of the world are now no longer required to watch out for moose? How high, exactly, do these fences need to be to guarantee no more moose accidents? We get a lot of snow... they would have to be high enough that there is no way that they'll be snow-covered enough for a moose to merely walk over them. Are they going to be strong enough to withstand Newfoundland's winds? Can you say "Wreckhouse"?? The only way that will work is if they build a 45 foot high concrete bunker on both sides of the highway, from St. John's to Port aux Basques. It HAS to be on both sides, of course... can't have moose wandering from one side now, can we? A fence on one side of the highway, and the first accident after that will have the great unwashed masses screaming that the government put the friggin' thing on the wrong side of the road.
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! (That's me, roaring.)
It's just as stupid as people who blame all the accidents on the Outer Ring Road, on the ROAD!! My personal message to the idiots who say this - It's not the road or the moose!! IT'S YOU!!!!!!!
And, for the sake of argument, what if a fence was built? Does that then mean that the Patricia Regulars of the world are now no longer required to watch out for moose? How high, exactly, do these fences need to be to guarantee no more moose accidents? We get a lot of snow... they would have to be high enough that there is no way that they'll be snow-covered enough for a moose to merely walk over them. Are they going to be strong enough to withstand Newfoundland's winds? Can you say "Wreckhouse"?? The only way that will work is if they build a 45 foot high concrete bunker on both sides of the highway, from St. John's to Port aux Basques. It HAS to be on both sides, of course... can't have moose wandering from one side now, can we? A fence on one side of the highway, and the first accident after that will have the great unwashed masses screaming that the government put the friggin' thing on the wrong side of the road.
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! (That's me, roaring.)
And then, what about moose hunting season? Will the government also have to install gates in this famous fence for the hunters to get in? And issue them all with keys to the locks?
And will they install automatic garage door openers for all the roads that intersect the Trans Canada Highway, so traffic can pass through?
It's all rubbish. Ridiculous rubbish.
The irony of the fence-building is this... building a fence along the whole length of the Trans Canada Highway wouldn't have slowed this mental midget down. She was on the Conception Bay North highway. Sooooo, are we supposed to fence every byway as well?
There have been moose spotted up here in Airport Heights. Does that mean the government are now responsible for fencing my back garden, too? Wicked.
If all else fails, I guess we could teach them to read and obey the rules of the road...
As one commenter at the bottom of the cbc.ca article wrote, "The moose have petitioned the government to keep this lady off the highway." That's about the size of it, too. Some of the other comments are very good, as well. It's good to see that more Newfoundlanders than just me see the lunacy in this whole story.
The fences are the same as snow fences...they are heavy plastic with squares, that the snow blow through. Fences are a good idea, NS put them up and almost cut out all the moose accidents. Most moose accidents don't occur with moose standing in the road, they run up from the ditches and don't look! It is easy to call this women a moron, but if you have a loved one who has been killed or paralized then your comments would be different. The gov't brought the moose here, now its time to curb the population of them.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I disagree with you 100%. People need to slow down, KNOWING there are moose on the road. END OF STORY. They need to drive as if they ANTICIPATE moose at every turn. The sign says "MAXIMUM 100 kph", not "It's your God-given right to go that fast, moose beware!!" If people drove defensively, the numbers would not be eliminated, but they would be the smallest fraction of what they are now. And, just as I said... what are we supposed to do? Fence both sides of every road in the province? There are only 500,000 people here, and we just can't afford that, oil or no. It's a ridiculous idea, and she's a freakin' moron to have let this happen to her three times in 10 months. By the way, I was nearly orphaned because of a moose accident when I was 4 years old. My father changed his driving ways, and has gone 46 years without having another. THAT'S what defensive driving does. We're going from "defensive" to "d'fencing". Ridiculous.
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