The end of the year is nigh!

1st December, 2008

I love December. Everyone starts to relax, the sun is out, the beach is hot, the drinks are poured, girls wear bikinis and the parties start. There's one problem with that - the POLICE.

Government made much noise about the new liquor laws and the new machines they have devised to trap us for speeding, drinking and driving and busting into our lives with renewed vigour.

Let's take those things one at a time...

1. New liquor laws: The old ones worked fine. Why do we need to lower the legal limit again? Now 3 shooters will invalidate my night-life.This is an imposition.

2. Speeding fines: I have never understood the purpose of these. They are seldom paid, seldom do you see them being effective on that annoying BMW M3 driver whizzing past you at 224km/h and they punish good law-abiding people who have a residential address and licenced car. Fact is that I've paid between 20 and 30 fines over the last year, none of them more than R100. That meant I was maybe 10-25km/h over the speed limit. That is just a lot of admin and paperwork. Plus I'm paying for Robert McBride's court case which makes me an accessory to his crimes. I object.

3.Drinking and driving: I have been in at least one serious accident and it involved no other people. I fell asleep at the wheel. Fatigue is as dangerous as drunken driving. All the experts concur. Yet those who drive tired escape any tests, checks or interogations by the big burly Metro Police. After 4 drinks they tell me they're locking me away. It's hypocrisy. Add to that all the drug addicts who see the road twisting like a ribbon as they drive and suddenly my blurry vision isn't the most dangerous thing on the road... I also know that 10 tequilas to me is the equivalent of one for Sister Inviolata of the Immaculate Conception nunnery so I must object again. Everyone has different tolerances and functional abilities under the influence - just look at Darren Scott and Leigh-Ann Mol. 

4. Busting in on our lives with renewed vigour: I object most strongly to the Police Raid carried out at The Grand, a strip club in Johannesburg, on Friday last week. Are strippers really so dangerous to the nation that 40 cops in riot gear and armed with automatic weapons need to check their passports AGAIN? They do this all the time. Yes, pigs, the girls are from Russia and remove their clothing for men. That is not a big deal in 2008.  Leave the strippers alone. Just because you can't afford them doesn't mean you need to harass them.

Got that off my chest. Now let's enjoy summer!

G