New road rules
February 28th, 2005 at 11:57 am by David FarrarThe NZ Herald has a useful summary of the new road rules which came into effect from yesterday.
One of the new rules, I have good grounds to support.
“Buses carrying passengers will not be allowed to move at any time the bus doors are open. At present the doors may be open within 50m of stopping but not when the bus moves off. “
When I was 11, I was on my school bus coming into Island Bay and at the door waiting to get off. The driver opened the doors while pulling into the bus stop, and a surge behind me pushed me out the bus door. I bounced off a car parked at the back of the bus stop, and went under the back wheel of the bus.
A ten tonne bus is very heavy as it passes over you. I am informed my yell of pain could be heard for some distance. And that was having it go over my leg only.
Being a good capitalist I of course limped around my Evening Post paper run to earn my few dollars of income, and then headed to the medical centre to report that my foot and leg hurt as a bus had run over them.
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February 28th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
“Being a good capitalist I of course limped around my Evening Post paper run to earn my few dollars”
That man deserves a DB.
Though I am quite sure he would prefer a GOOD beer instead.
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
OUCH!!!!
See the Labour government does good things for you!
I’m just curious as to how you would advocate for lowering the road toll, because I don’t see many other ways of lowering it.
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Isn’t it strange, Greg, how when the LTSA does something sensible, some drone comes out from a cave in leftie field to claim credit for Labour. Now let’s hear it for the Qualifications Authority, and whowever is repsonsible for Wananga funding, and Waipareira funding, and people who die while on hospital waiting lists, and Clark and Goff like a pair of pompous penguins lecturing Israel while the Arab forgers who did twenty times more that the Yids didn’t even rate. Of course it’s LABOUR.
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
“Being a good capitalist I of course limped around my Evening Post paper run to earn my few dollars of income, and then headed to the medical centre to report that my foot and leg hurt as a bus had run over them.”
Mate… the All Blacks and Black Caps need you, or your children… now!
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Good on U, DF.
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Maybe some of our beneficiaries should take a leaf out of your book.
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
Ah, those were the days; when we had an evening paper. When the local medical centre was open. When you could have a paper run and not be taxed on earnings and have to fill out a GST form.
The days when a hard working lad would crawl around to deliver the paper, with one bruised and bloody leg trailing in the gutter, not instantly thinking of the ACC, sickness benefit, lodging a formal complaint against the driver, and an angle to get out of school the next day (well, maybe just for one day).
Is it too much of a leap to expect the more right wing sort have similiar stories, and the left wing sort stayed at home and waited for the paper to be delivered and TV to be invented?
I too could regale you with stories of my paper delivering exploits, all for a few cents of satisifaction. I must confess also to a leaning towards the free market, less government intervention line of thinking.
Do the left have similar stories? Just where and when did they go off the rails and demand a share of your paper money??
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
That’s a really interesting question, ZenTiger.
I had paying jobs as a kid.
Did those on the left ever have jobs as kids???
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Kimble – As a good first former at St Mark’s Church School I was not of an age or disposition to enjoy beer unfortunately. That changed at secondary school
Greg – best way to lower the road toll IMO is to make people re-sit their licence tests every 5 to 10 years.
Zen – I loved my paper run and my customers who always tipped me, but especially the lovely old ladies who would make me fudge, chocolate etc. For a while I even did three paper runs. It is a real pity that teh demise of the evening post has killed off a wonderful after school job.
Vote:February 28th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
looke..yes
cheers
Vote:March 1st, 2005 at 11:44 pm
Curious to know,David, what damage was actually done by the bus.
Vote:March 1st, 2005 at 11:51 pm
By some miracle no bones were broken (I have never had a broken bone) and I just had severe bruising and swelling. I was limping for a few days only.
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