I understand that I started this blog in the spirit of fun, but after reading the newspapers today, I realised that I simply have to get something off my chest.
Our 50th celebration of Merdeka is coming up right? Well, twenty people won't be celebrating with us come the 31st of August this year. Why? Because they were horribly killed in a road accident this morning. Road accidents, however horrible, are really nothing new. As they say, bad things happen. But what affected me the most was the back story of the incident.
Supposedly the driver of the bus --- who was killed along with the other nineteen --- had 19 summonses issued against him since 1991. Imagine that: since 1991. That's 16 years ago. How old were you 16 years ago? Oh wait, most of you were born 16 years ago right? And since that time, while you were growing up, there's this criminal who was walking our tanahair with the potential to kill. Well, he's done it now, hasn't he? Twenty lives, including his own. And it seems that one of the dead was a pregnant woman, so that makes twenty one.
Sixteen years is a long time. And nineteen summonses is a lot of summonses. Why was nothing done? Why was he still driving? Who issued the summonses? Even a child knows that if Daddy gets a saman, he will have to settle it right?
"But Daddy, what happens if you don't pay?"
"If Daddy doesn't pay, then the people who issued the saman will come look for Daddy."
But our Bus Driver of Death somehow managed to evade the people who issued the nineteen saman. Or perhaps the people who issued the saman were too busy doing something else.
And now that the proverbial taik has hit the proverbial kipas, a minister was quoted as saying that there is a need for "refresher courses." Whoo-whee! Jumpin' jelly beans! Hey man, how about making sure that all bus companies are doing everything by the book, for instance, running a thorough check on all their drivers to make sure that they do not have NINETEEN outstanding summonses, and making sure that Puspakom is really doing their job? Apparently, the bus that crashed was last inspected in May.
That's all for now. Regular programming will resume tomorrow.
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to tell you the truth, i was taken aback by the news as well. this son of a gun is putting everyone's life on the line by driving recklessly, with the proof that he already had 19 summonses.
and i don't think the government will succeed in carrying out any plans to fix this. there have been so many plans and it totals up to nothing. it'll take like a month, and everything will be forgotten again. i mean what the hell, the government tries to put the blame on others yet they don't realise that it's actually kind of their fault too.
i pray that nothing of this sort will never happen again.
Objectively, I believe that the hierarchy of responsibility goes something like this: first, it's the government's fault. Specifically, the JPJ and the traffic police department. Then the bus company, followed by the loser who drove the bus into a ditch.
By attributing the entire tragedy to karma, one can feel slightly better.
iono. i hope no one denies this, but i think it might be because of the ghost festival thing. hey, you might never really know. i'm agnostic and stuff, but you'll never know what really hit him :P
it's always convenient to blame it on ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. personally, i believe human beings are scarier than ghosts. and i find it odd that you purport to be agnostic and yet offer the possibility of ghosts having a hand in the tragedy.
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