Street Racing Law Will Do NOTHING!
Street Racing, Stupid Impaired Drivers & Politicians
There are no official Canadian statistics on street-racing and related deaths. The problem isn't serious enough to even bother having statistics kept. Isn't this group (street racers) being unfairly attacked? So unimportant is the problem that the Government of Canada has to reference US based statistics in their own bills because there is no Canadian statistical information in existence. Fact: The Street Racing fatality numbers are so low that Canadian legislators have to dig up statistics from a country with a population nearly 10 times greater than our own? Yes, yes, this seems like a problem that should be immediately addressed with extreme prejudice, widespread media coverage and a horse and pony car crushing display by some Eastern nim-witted Po Po’s. The legislation is clearly critical to decrease the traffic fatality rate, and yes, yes, the punishments to be levied should be of the utmost severity. The legislative assembly, in all it’s brilliance, will roar with approval!
According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2004, 16,694 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes - an average of one almost every half-hour. These deaths constituted approximately 39 percent of the 42,636 total traffic fatalities. There were 125 deaths as a result of Street Racing. So, in the United States, impaired driving caused 13400% more fatalities than Street Racing. To be fair Canadians would like to believe they are not quite as stupid as Americans. For the sake of argument, let's say that in reality Canadians are just as intellectually deficient. Then these statistics could probably be transferred over to Canada and be relatively accurate with regard to percentages. Naturally occurrence numbers are going to be lower due to our lower population.
Even though I don't street race, it's hard to defend the statement that this group is being rightfully and justifiably singled out. When in fact, impaired driving (perhaps even the random bar fight) is causing more deaths per annum than Street Racing. Toronto, one of the largest Canadian cities has seen only twenty-nine deaths in the last six years. That's right. Wow, Twenty-nine deaths over a span of six years of Street Racing with no special laws to punish it. Without doing the actual research, I'd say there is no question that random bar fights claimed more lives than Street Racing in the last six years in the city of Toronto. The numbers aren't even high enough to bother keeping track of officially. That alone is enough reason to toss this stupid bill into the trash and spit on it.
Ever wonder where such stupid bills come from? As quickly as that question can be asked the answer can be realized: Stupid impaired politicians. Dumb-fuck lawmakers in Ottawa wasting time and money in search of a way to appease an outraged public who need to be mad at someone or something at all times. Our government needs something to keep them busy. Surely after a while, sitting on your thumb whilst rotating becomes boring, and then a new law aimed at a fraction of a percent of people contributing to a specific problem simply must be drummed up. But Wait! Like any problem, you need to find the major source, and do something to eliminate it. A concept seemingly overlooked in the case of the Street Racing bill.
Let me be the bearer of some fantastic news!
Fortunately the fucker that introduced the original private members bill about Street Racing is already dead. I mean, just in case you cared or were hoping that the son-of-a-bitch, no-good, brain-less, dick-less moron of a politician who thought up this crap load of sludge should be somehow punished. He's already dead. I'm not going to research his life and lofty achievements any further. I am immensely satisfied, without further pursuit, that step one of eliminating really stupid private member bills is already achieved. It was his private members bill that was tabled, and eventually transformed into what we know as the Street Racing Bill. So, if you were hoping for vengeance against the think tank that decided pursuit of 0.29% of the problem was a worthy target to reduce traffic fatalities...I have great news for you! He's Dead, He's Dead, and He's Dead. What a fucking tool.
How do you reduce traffic fatalities? It is after all a very difficult decision to make. Any politician (with less than average intelligence, of course) would have great difficulty in understanding what should be pursued to reduce traffic fatality reduction. Clearly, when you have 39% of fatalities caused by Impaired Scum, and 0.29% caused by Street Racing Scum – the choice becomes obvious to any politician. Get the Street Racer Scum!
0.29% FTW!
You read correctly. Impaired drivers caused 13400% more fatalities than Street Racers.
But wait! If you really want to cut back on traffic fatalities, let’s consider Life imprisonment for impaired drivers. Let’s not let them kill someone before they get a measly 10 years in prison. Let’s just fill the prisons with drunks. Harsh, yes. Would it fix the problem? Yes. Right, so this is all that we require, why is that so hard? I should be a law-maker. Perhaps we could be lenient? Yes. Yes. Let’s only give them 3 years in jail for the first offence, then Life imprisonment with the added bonus that you don’t need to harm or injure anyone to receive the punishment! I mean, if you want to stop the problem, and you want severe punishment targeted specifically at a very large source of the problem. That’d do it. OK, so maybe it’s not such a great idea. But at least it would target a much larger group of people and would unquestionably effect the desired result of reducing traffic fatalities and the punishment would be so severe the crime would become a risk too high for most to take. I think Politicians don’t target drunk drivers specifically because many of them would like to avoid targeting themselves in the process.
But wait!
Because I am not a politician and I am semi-intelligent, I have come up with some seriously disturbing information. Statistical information, which is precise, exact and is undisputable. I’m afraid that if 0.29% of fatalities are caused by Street Racer Scum, and 39% of fatalities are caused by Drunk Scum, then that leaves a staggering 60.71% of drivers causing fatalities whilst not doing anything particularly stupid. Uhm, well folks, how exactly do we reduce traffic fatalities when the majority of them are occurring just due to plain old stupidity? Some will say that 60.71% are simply necessary if we all want to drive. I disagree. It seems very clear to me that the correct group of people to be targeting is the average daily driver. This is the group that needs the most attention. Followed very closely by the drunks. And the people looking the most golden needing the least amount of attention are the Street Racers. How oh How did the Politicians get it all so backwards? It takes more than lack of intelligence, it takes purified concentrated liquefied stupidity pumped directly into your veins to get that dumb. Yet the political forum is quite happy to pursue 0.29% of the problem, leaving the 39% of the problem status-quo and the real problem of 60.71% completely alone.
Don’t you have to pass Math to become a Politician? Seriously?
It seems much harsher penalties for impaired driving could go a long way to reduced traffic fatalities. Maybe we could reduce that 39% down to 20% and the overall number of fatalities would drop. Perhaps. That would be a marked improvement. But no matter what we do with the laws regarding Street Racing, the potential is never greater than 0.29%. Let’s pretend. I like pretend-time. So, if Street Racing laws were 100% successful and completely eliminated Street Racing, the law would inflict barely a dent in the fatality count of Canada each year as it would see only a 0.29% reduction in fatalities. Diddly. Dick. Squat. Nadda. Nuttin. Zilch. Zero. Zip. Fuck All.
That being said, and since I don't street race and don't plan on injuring or killing anyone with my car during a street race - I like the Bill. And the media loves a good Street Racing Death. It's guaranteed to sell papers and get people tuned in to their TV. But the statistical fact proves, beyond any question or shadow of a doubt, that tougher laws on Street Racing will not impact any significant reduction in fatalities on public streets. Efforts directed at stiffer penalties for the drunks among us will definitely decrease the fatality count. Overlooked is what should be a very extensive government designed and funded continuing education program for drivers, defensive driving courses, and perhaps the re-testing of drivers on a periodic basis. I mean, it’s us normal folk who are causing 60+% of the accidents out there. Hell, you could likely argue that perhaps since this is the largest group of fatality causing misfits, it should be the only group of people to place any additional focus upon. Let the impaired fucktards and Street Racing losers be as even when combined that group is less than 40% of the problem!
Street Racing causing just 0.29% of fatalities is a barely noticable blip on the radar. Pfft, in Canada that’s hardly a dozen people per year. Wonderful, a special law for the lucky dozen people who will kill another human-being during a Street Race. I’m so pleased my tax money could be directed to such a noble cause. Unfortunately, it means that in Canada thousands will die at the hands of drunk drivers in the same time frame, and seemingly nothing is being done to make those penalties suitable.
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