They are children, not crash-test dummies!

Last I checked South Africa wasn't some backwards country where pertinent information was limited to the few, well for the most part at least. Even if you aren't educated to the highest degree you still should know what's safe and what's not. So let's get into it...

What the bloody hell is it with parents and allowing their kids to either stand on the seat next to the driver or in the back in between the two seats.

When you drove off with your little one bouncing around like a bag of biltong at a rugby match you never paid any mind that you were practically signing their death certificate. In the case of an accident the possibility of being seriously or fatally injured is doubled if not tripled when you forget about their safety.

What grates my tits even more is when the adults in the car have their belts on and the kid is standing between the front seats or on the lap of the front passenger, so it's either they go canon balling through the windscreen or get crushed to death by the air bag pushing them into their carriers chest.

Maybe I just don't understand or maybe I missed the memo and nowadays kids are responsible for their own lives, in which case they should be allowed to drink and smoke.

All I'm saying is, if you were grown enough to put two and two together and bring a child into the world then be grown enough to put their life first.

All tolled out

E-tolls, is the topic overdone? Hmmm, I reckon that for as long as government is trying to dig deeper into our pockets we'll complain, and complain we must. 

To hell with rolling over and accepting it, fok! SANRAL wasn't even kind enough to offer us the proverbial tub of vaseline to ease the pain. Even after all the strikes, pettitions, legal actions and news paper articles written in uproar they still went ahead and screwed us. Leaving our beloved friends the taxi drivers to go free.

So what do we do now?

I for one am not purchasing a silly piece of plastic designed to steal my money at every beep. So SANRAL has opted to dish out invoices at an alarming rate to anyone and everyone, from babies to the deceased and every poor soul in between. Not to mention the SMS being sent out where peoples details have been given out without prior consent, gone are the days where "personal details" meant something.

I  was recently the proud recipient of a six page invoice to the hefty price of R14.00, there must be some paper company out there making a killing.

Let’s look at the accuracy of this amazing system. If SANRAL can issue their silly little penalties to infants, dead people and one’s who don’t even reside in Johannesburg, what’s stopping us from paying their fines into non-existent accounts?