4 young teens lost their lives last night because the driver was showing off

[Casper]

Well, as hard as it is to accept, all of us “horrible and biased” full license holders have already gone through the whole P Plate deal and actually do know what’s going on. Admittedly we (us of the 70’s and 80’s) didn’t get the same persecution as current P Platers from police and the media. We got a different persecution entirely. Why would a policeman bother to write out an unroadworthy ticket when it was so much more fun to give the driver a nice beating, take his keys and through them into the grass and make them walk home. Don’t think that stuff happened? Trust me…it did… LOTS.

In the end we of the full license have done our time, survived (for good or bad) and eventually, with a bit of luck, those of you who are on P Plates will make it too. Restrictions to P Platers are pretty unrealistic in most practical applications but, at the risk of sounding harsh, I’ve been there, done that, and have to say that any restriction put in place will probably not make a difference……….. and has no effect on me.

It’s a sad fact of life that stupid is as stupid does and horror stories like this will continue on indefinitely.