After some young guy got chopped in half by a cheese cutter motorway median barrier (more here), NZ Bikers are considering protesting to the lunatics running the asylum (this means the Goverment, for those who sniffed too many permanent markers at school).
While I would normally point and laugh at such flagrant optimism (that Uncle Helen will actually listen to the public), given that Labour have been getting a flogging in the Polls this year, and there is an election next year, they may have some chance of being listened to.
Also, Helen is pretty savvy, and the motorcycling community has been growing at around 30% per year for the last 5 years, so that could be ammunition for the bikers.
The horribly dangerous bastard things have already been banned in big chunks of Europe, so maybe there is hope.
One scary little factoid; 70% of bikers who hit the pricks (the barriers, not the government) at 85km/h or faster loose a limb.
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