A Christmas Present for you

[guest40]

Show this to all your yuonguns that are out there and take heed yourselves of this timely reminder

[Mark]

Horrific

[Steffan]

Well that certainly catches your breath. No chance of them ever airing anything that strong over here.

Bloody awful

Steffan

[trophydave]

Grim viewing but if that is what it takes to get the message across then perhaps it should be shown.

[guest7]

Bloodyfeckinawful... but if that's what it takes...

It doesn't exactly pull any punches eh?

But thanks for posting it.

I'd like to say that the last time I rode pissed was in 1989, but truth be told, how many 'mornings after' since then have I ridden whilst probably still drunk?

GC

[Ian]

If anything is strong enough to remind you about that horrible time then this is it....omg you want to stop watching it but you cant and to see so many bodies wiped out like that in such a short space of time ....


Ian

[squirrelciv]

Good ol' Oz. Tell it like it is and hold nothing back.

Picking up on GC's post, I do wonder sometimes, how sober I am on the morning after at some rallies. Must admit to leaving Dent with a thumping hangover once or twice. If I wasn't over the limit I could hardly claim to be fully concentrating on riding with part of my brain wondering who was banging a drum in my head.

Would the defence of "SteveD made me do it" hold up in court??

[Steffan]

Depens Pat on how many bodies were strewn around the road.

 

Steff

[Steve H]

Grim viewing but if that is what it takes to get the message across then perhaps it should be shown.

Agreed, perhaps we need to stop worrying about offending sensitive types if it saves a few lives.

[Dogbad]

Regarding the "Morning after" thing.  Back in 1981 I had been out with a cousin on the night before and I was heading to work on the Railway at about 1-15pm on the old gs400 when, apparently, I got airborne over a bridge, flew along the side of the road and slapped the nut on a pedestrian before I hit the wall, 14 feet high and holding back a field so it was solid enough .  Next I knew was waking up in hospital and being told that my Dad had argued for them Not amputating my left hand! I was told I'd have no movement from the damage to the wrist, not too bad these days, and there was no way I could continue my job of swinging about under trains to make 'em go again. I was banned for 18 months as I was, apparently, still over the limit near to 15 hours after the last drink and "Other Items!" had been consumed. As a 19 year old youth I got away with a lot of stuff but these days I don't take any risks!

[guest7]

I swear to God that actually hurt as I read it!

GC

[magneto]

Poignant..

Why isn't this shown on UK TV?

Drink sales, that's why not.

[guest18]

Should be shown on British TV.
But it wont in case it "upsets" people.  The only people who really see the effects are the Police/Fire/Ambulance who have to clear up and those directly involved. On another forum I frequent it was pointed out that when the most recent oil rig caught fire and 7(iirc) workers were killed some people wondered if our need/want for oil justified the physical and environmental cost, yet 7 lives ruined a day on the road can pass without comment as it allows us convenient transport 

Every day I commute by bike & cycle I encounter dangerous driving. That sort of selfish dangerous behaviour wouldn't be accepted in any other walk of life.

Doesn't help when we call all collisions "accidents" and when people kill through dangerous/reckless behaviour (that would get you locked away if it was with a power saw or whatever) they get a 2 year ban or similar... imo a conviction for death by dangerous driving should be a lifetime ban. Driving whilst banned = jail. I cannot see any other way to reduce the carnage 

[Mark]

Doesn't help when we call all collisions "accidents" and when people kill through dangerous/reckless behaviour (that would get you locked away if it was with a power saw or whatever) they get a 2 year ban or similar... imo a conviction for death by dangerous driving should be a lifetime ban. Driving whilst banned = jail. I cannot see any other way to reduce the carnage 

Failed asylum seeker!!!

Tin of wriggly things.

[guest18]

The recent case with the failed asylum seeker is a different can of worms, far more upsetting to me are the "respectable" drivers who "need their licence for their work" or who only "made a momentary error of judgement" apparently (like driving at 60mph into the back of a cyclist on an empty straight road in perfect visibility as done by a council van last year, the sort of negligence that would get jail in most professions....)
The examples are endless and depressing 
Our attitude to motor vehicles is wrong (and I'm a vehicle fan! (who's just seen too many "accidents" and too much selfish arrogant dangerous bullying/thoughtlessnes/stupidity on the roads))

Sickened really