So, I recognize that I do a lot of posts about driving. I love driving. I find it calming and it gives me a place to think and organize my thoughts while not being totally bored and disengaged from the world.
When other drivers ruin it for me, it makes me mad.
Not road rage-y mad. Just mad. Mad enough to blarg about it. The idea for this post came from a good friend of mine, and I have to admit that I've been putting it off. I don't know why I've been putting it off. I just have. For that, I owe my friend an apology.
Anyway, back to drivers. Have you ever been cruising down a dark street, and just see a couple of yellow lights approaching you at high speed? Chances are, they are not the glowing eyes of the boogeyman coming to gobble you up, but rather the running lights of some idiot who has neglected to turn on their headlights.
It is my opinion that either they are intentionally trying to kill someone, possibly themselves included, or they are so impossibly unaware of their surroundings, they have not realized it is dark and difficult to see. Either way, they should not be driving.
If they have been intently negligent in turning them on, I would say they have earned the right to a license revocation, and at least two nights in a special cell at the police station which I will dub the "stupidity cell." This will be similar to the stocks of olden times, where the culprit has his hands and head stuck in holes, and is left standing there, butt stuck out, half bent over. It looks rather uncomfortable. Now, in the olden stocks, the village people (the locals, not the music group... well, maybe them too?) would come by and have the ability to slap or hurl old produce at the offender. I think that these stupidity cells should come equipped with foam ball launchers that anyone in the public would be allowed to use. This could be turned into a potential way to increase funding to our civil servants, should tickets be sold (at a fairly low cost per ticket, of course). I'm thinking even school field trips could get involved with the fun! Each ball would have the words "TURN ON YOUR LIGHTS" printed on them, so the offender would see the message every time a ball was launghed at them.
If the person is oblivious to their surroundings, they at least need to get their eyes checked. Some states do a "demerit" or "point" system, where certain offenses grant certain negative points against a driver's licence. Driving in the dark with no headlights certainly deserves this. I'm going to save my ideas on this particular subject, however, because I'm fairly certain there is alread a policy in place on this, and is enforced with the perpetrator is caught.
But a ball launcher for intentional idiots...
Genius
