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| Thread ID: 56113 | 2005-03-27 17:10:00 | Death Cult of the Young Male Driver | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 338565 | 2005-03-27 17:10:00 | Another sad waste (www.nzherald.co.nz) of flesh and bone, to follow yet another (www.nzherald.co.nz). I doubt that all the safety messages in the world would have been heeded, as these young men needed to prove something by driving like demons to their doom. | vinref (6194) | ||
| 338566 | 2005-03-27 19:59:00 | you're probably right. Sixty years ago I was the best driver in the world.Nobody could convince me otherwise. Now I realise I was not the best ,just the luckiest. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 338567 | 2005-03-27 20:00:00 | Yup, I agree with winref. But this issue has appeared over and over again in our newspapers, yet why are we still moaning about it? I am pretty new in New Zealand and I trusted that fatal accidents like that have happened few years ago and the public moaned about it. Still, history of this fatal accidents repeat again and again. I am quite sure that the authorities have done something to prevent it from happening again such as campaigning, setting lower speed limit etc. In the end, the main problem still lies in the parents. They should properly educate their children the ethics of driving and so on. Hopefully, all the young men and women around NZ will start driving like their upper generation with courtesy and respect. Cheers :) | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 338568 | 2005-03-28 03:35:00 | Hopefully, all the young men and women around NZ will start driving like their upper generation with courtesy and respect. Cheers :) Except many of the upper generation don't know how to drive courteously with respect for other road users either. Look for the "Kiwi Drivers" thread on this forum. Many people have discussed their experiences on the roads here. |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 338569 | 2005-03-28 04:23:00 | I think it is beyond driving skills, road manners and the law. None of these can fix the terrible toll permanently. Personally I think young men believe it a cultural and social requirement to acquire cars and drive them fast and furiously. They are surrounded by images, cues and other influences which initiate, enforce and perpetuate this belief. There don't seem to be any counter influences. Even the latest victim/perpetrator Sigamoney's parents knew he was regularly exceeding 200km/h. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 338570 | 2005-03-28 04:38:00 | Well, what can you expect when lunatic adult city councillors actually want to host V8 car racing around city streets. Then all the young yahoos who go to watch will be yahooing all the way home afterwards. This sort of behaviour seems to be built into the psyche, from children who ride their bikes out from intersections without even looking through to adults who do the same. The least one can say is that it is another instrument by means of which 'Gaia' is trying to reduce the earths population. The 'extreme' sports popular these days is maybe another manifestation of something wrong with the mental processes, some sort of death wish 'syndrome'. "In the olden days" ( :) ), youngsters, myself included, bought motorbikes, we couldn't afford cars, then those that survived became better car drivers, or so I like to think. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 338571 | 2005-03-28 04:46:00 | And in most cases, the cars we had would have been lucky if they could go as fast as the current speed limit without falling apart. | craigb (4884) | ||
| 338572 | 2005-03-28 04:53:00 | My 1989 1.3l corolla still struggles to get to the speed limit :). I noticed that the mother of one of the victims in hospital said it was no ones fault, just clean fun or something. I mean common, it is the drivers fault for going 140km\h, if he was still alive he'd get charged with dangerous use of a motorvehicle causing injury and death and/or a few manslaughter charges on the side... - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 338573 | 2005-03-28 05:00:00 | I noticed that the mother of one of the victims in hospital said it was no ones fault, just clean fun or something. I mean common, it is the drivers fault for going 140km\h, if he was still alive he'd get charged with dangerous use of a motorvehicle causing injury and death and/or a few manslaughter charges on the side... - David That's it. These young men are surrounded in their families, friends and immediate social circle by people who not only fail to denounce this sort of behaviour, but patently condone it. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 338574 | 2005-03-28 05:22:00 | My 1989 1.3l corolla still struggles to get to the speed limit :). - David My '87 1.3L Corolla doesn't struggle at all. Of course getting to past the limit would be a whole other thing. And I'm not interested in finding out. Just watch the car makes ads for why people want to drive like that - they reinforce it. It would be fairly simple to build cars that physically couldn't go very fast. |
pctek (84) | ||
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