Severe scolding for cops parents citizens officials

Here is another example of how the freak show society of the past twenty to thirty years has totally missed investing in the good, and has instead invested in the bad.

Several days ago, in a town not too far from where I now reside, a star senior year high school football player died in the doorway of his car, of a shot from his own hunting shot gun. He had been pulled over by a policeman in a patrol car, and according to events as they have been reported thus far, the police officer was in his or her car running on his computer a check of the car he had just pulled over. Therefore, we are given to understand, the officer did not see what happened until he or she heard the gun shot and found the young man dead under the gun. These circumstances suggest either suicide, which the family finds painfully difficult to believe, obviously, or an accident. The young man was apparently an avid hunter, owned the shotgun and carried it in his car, often went hunting before school classes each day, and apparently had been hunting that day. The local police have kept a distance from the family, including when they first heard the young man had been shot, and have turned the investigation of what happened over to the state police. Now, here is my point.

None of this would be as mysterious and painful if the police car had a forward pointing dash board camera that records all events that take place in front of the police car, and thus in the direction of the action whenever the police car pulls another car over. These cameras have a proven track record of protecting via recording the truth of events both the police and the general public.

I am astonished that every police car in the country that is involved in patrol does not have one of these cameras already and, in fact, should have had those years ago. But no, what has society invested in? It seems every teenager, rich or poor, has cell phone cameras so that they can take naked pictures of themselves and their neighbors, plus lead lives of cyborgs and robots by constantly “texting” their friends. The same towns, cities and rural areas that fill the hands of their children with cell phone cameras somehow didn’t think of outfitting law enforcement cars with cameras to protect both the honest police and the public from the dishonest police. How much more stupid can this society get?

This is hardly surprising when one considers the geniuses who designed the American space vehicle known as the space shuttle. Billions have been poured into that vehicle, and for decades it flew without any of the engineering geniuses ever planning for cameras to monitor and inspect the accident prone and vulnerable exterior. They probably have cameras filming the astronauts take a crap, but it never occurred to them to have exterior cameras to ensure the integrity of the outer skin surface of the vehicle until, you guessed, not one but two space shuttles were destroyed and their crews killed, due to ignorance of routine launch damage to the craft’s tiles from striking debris. Wow, suddenly the geniuses decide to put cameras on the shuttle (and repair kits), only after a generation of children have already had "cams" and on line cameras on their computers so they can transmit every word of wisdom and sex act to their friends on the Internet.

I cannot understand a society that invests in the “new, hot technology” to loosen morals of their children (such as they are) and distract them from being children (you know, studying) yet is too plain ignorant to first outfit the adults in services, such as law enforcement, with dashboard cameras. Ironically employers have already leaped to record for “safety” purposes just about every move that employees make on company premises, but the police do not all have dashboard cameras and the adult public has not insisted on it? Then again, this is a society that did not really invest in bullet proof vests for police officers until Yoko Ono donated money for that cause after her husband John Lennon was killed. Where are the priorities? Where are the geniuses in this society? What do they do with themselves when they are not counting their piles of money, and donating to “good causes” like of course the “performing arts” or combating disease in foreign lands?

The family of the young man who died in this nearby town should never have had a moment of question about what happened because every patrol car, including the one in this tragic incident, should already have had a running and operating dashboard camera. There should be nothing hidden and unknown; it should all have been on a dashboard camera. It is a disgrace that there is even one police car without a dashboard camera in this country, to say nothing of the thousands that roam around, doing good and sometimes doing mischief, unmonitored. Everyone goes like morons to go see Batman drive his high technology bat mobile, but they are too foolish to insist that their local police have dashboard cameras in their not so glamorous but far more important and real cars.

And, by the way parents, I have some advice. There is no such thing as “privacy rights” for minors who live at home with you. If you can afford a car for your teenage child you have the right to insist on certain safety rules and you certainly should look into the dashboard cameras that are for monitoring teenage use of cars. If you think that in the good old days teenagers took off on the family horse to have “privacy” and “freedom” you are sadly delusional. In the good old days no child or teenager did anything without a bevy of adult chaperons and community extended family observing their every move, since children and teenagers simply do not have good judgment as yet. The same, by the way, applied to using the family sword or firearm. In the good old days teenagers did not go trucking around with the family gun, or worse, their own gun, without being with adults. Even if this young man was the most responsible gun owner in the world, look at what happened: an accident. Every parent who has a live at home teenager with a car should seriously consider installing monitoring devices to ensure mature and wise behavior. If your teenager objects they obviously have something to hide. Like I said, there is no such thing as “privacy rights” for minority children who lack the maturity to exercise such rights.

Just ask the many traumatized family members whose children have, through speed or inexperience, been killed driving their cars just to school, often loaded with family members such as sibling children or peer group friends. Teenagers have very poorly developed driving skills; it is just a fact of judgment and lack of months or years of experience. Monitoring ensures such basics as driving at the speed limit, and not “blowing away” stop signs and so forth. You are doing your child a favor, and yourself, if you not only teach but demand responsible behavior, and invest in tools to monitor his or her driving rather than paying for a car and a cell phone so they can film each other’s genitals and broadcast them on the Internet, and then speed to their next school event. I am sick and tired of seeing grieving parents, broken bodies of children and teenagers, and lawsuits and finger pointing when good and firm parenting, including understanding the mental and emotional limitations of minority children, including mature seeming teenagers, could have avoided much of this. “Why does God allow this to happen?” God wants everyone to be freaking mature and responsible people who invest in the good and not the bad. Lord Almighty, how moronic he thinks all of you are, when you ask him how he can “allow” such tragedy, but you pay for naked buttock picture taking by teenagers but not for safety features to monitor their use in their own cars and also in the patrol cars of those who are supposedly protecting the community. But then again, it took two space shuttles with their full crews to blow up and kill them all before the engineering geniuses thought of putting monitoring cameras on them, so I guess God is expecting too much of the “average Joe.”

Careful driving important, including in Israel

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1221142455328&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Nadav Bukovza, 3 months old, was killed Thursday overnight when the car his family was traveling in slammed into a pole near the Tashor junction in southern Israel.

Five others members of Bukovza's family were taken to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, varying in their condition from moderate to serious.

The baby was extracted from the vehicle badly injured and paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, but he suffered a serious head injury and died shortly thereafter.

In another accident Thursday overnight, a truck driver carrying peach crates overturned on Road 886 in the Upper Galilee. Paramedics arriving on the scene called firefighters to assist in sawing the truck in half and removing the crates under which the driver, 24, was buried.

They pronounced him dead on the scene. A preliminary investigation concluded that the driver most likely lost control of his vehicle while making a sharp turn at a high speed.

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Remember, people, that just like in the womb, babies are helpless and dependent passengers in cars. It is always so tragic when an infant dies in an auto wreck.

And many people drive too fast and like maniacs, including in the Middle East. The irony is this truck driver goes off the road, and then crushed by his own load of carriage, peaches.

It caught my eye because peaches are a sign of Kwan's mercy, the Asian goddess of mercy.

Devastating car accident; please drive carefully

This story has just come in about a car accident today where the driver, a woman, was driving five children to or from a birthday party. She and three children are killed, when the car went off the road for some unknown reason, and into a deep dugout, and the two other children are in a coma. This is a tiny town in Canada (even smaller than the upstate New York one I grew up in) and I can imagine their devastation. Please pray for these people. And please promote safer driving in your own family. I mean, these little kids were just going to a children's birthday party, for goodness sakes. I have pissed off jerks tailgating and passing me (twice in the past week) and I drive the speed limit or even a few miles per hour over. Everyone needs to slow down and chill out. This poor woman was probably distracted for just a second and that's all that's needed. Kudos to the passersby who went into the dugout to try to rescue.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jKPu8FwZ3JdZFysevFOO1xtgWwtQ

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MELFORT, Sask. — A tiny town in central Saskatchewan has been devastated by a single-vehicle crash Thursday that claimed the lives of a woman and three little girls and has left two other girls in a coma.
The vehicle the woman was driving veered off a secondary highway near Melfort, Sask., and flipped over into a water-filled dugout.
Paul Boyer, wife of the mayor of St. Brieux, Sask., said the group had been travelling either to or from a children's birthday party.
Two of the children belonged to the woman driving; the other three were from different families in the small community, which has a population of about 500.
All of the children were seven or eight years old.

Rescuers by car accident deserve huge credit

This is a news story about a car crash where a six year old girl died. And there is a lot in it about what not to do when a car is broken down on a highway. But I include the story because bystanders, bikers and motorists, were incredible heroes, pulling both adults out of a flaming car. Everyone deserves a lot of credit, including the guy with the crow bar in his car, and these guys mentioned by name are real heroes. It takes a lot of courage to face a wrecked car on fire, especially with gas all around. There's nothing they could do about the child who was the fatality, and I hope they can be comforted in that regard. It's very tough, I know.

http://www.newsday.com/community/news/northshoresuffolk/huntington/ny-licrash0717,0,5499670.story

Curious about what safety taught in schools

Since I don't have any kids in school (the kids I used to sponsor have long ago grown up and are mostly out of touch) I genuinely don't know the answer to this question. How much safety is being taught to kids in school these days? I don't mean how to put a condom on a cucumber, since I know the schools have that "covered." Or of stranger danger, because that too is a popular topic. But what about good old safety instruction that we used to get by the ton?

I remember coloring books that taught how to be careful around electrical outlets and so forth. That was for the little kids.

And as older kids, there was also a lot about safety, often as part of driver education. Kids were taught that if you were in an accident and power lines were down, to NOT get out of the car, but to wait for rescue (unless the car was actually on fire). I remember this was a big deal in safety instruction. It comes to mind because I just read the sad story of a teenage girl who survived an auto wrecked against a utility pole, but when she got out of the car and stepped on the ground she was electrocuted. It made me wonder (and this is not a criticism of her, but yes, an implied criticism of the schools and perhaps her family) if this type of thing is taught to kids anymore.

"Baby on board" advice for parents

Another baby has died in an overheated car while a parent forgot that the baby was in the car. While I find it incredible that a parent could be so distracted by anything that they forget they have the baby along with them in the car, I accept that humans will "zone out" in certain circumstances. One is when there is a change in routine, where a parent takes the child who normally does not to daycare and so forth. The other thing I understand, to some degree, is that people strap their kids into carriers in the back of big SUV's and so forth and so if they fall asleep, as they often do, they are "out of sight and out of mind." (I still am the type of person who would obsess with driving extra careful when I have a baby in the car, and thus would be unlikely to forget the baby is there, no matter how quiet he or she might be during the ride). But humans make mistakes.

I have a suggestion. You know how there are a lot of toys that attach via key ring to purses and so forth? Kids put them on knapsacks? I suggest you get one for each of your infant children. Then, whenever you take your baby to your car, you take that toy along and either hang it on your key chain or on your rear view mirror, your purse or briefcase, etc. This is your "baby on board" reminder.

So even if you are a hectic parent who has the baby when you don't normally on your commute, and you forget the baby is in the car, when you park and go to leave your car you can't help but see a big fluffy yellow chick, or pink pig, or teddy bear or whatever dangling from your keys, your purse, your briefcase, the car door handle, or wherever you had placed it when you got in the car.

Grandparents, this is something you can buy for your children for their "baby on board" reminders. It seems that nagging is really appropriate here. Even one death is too many and I read about it year after year after year.

So you keep the toy or toys, one for each infant or small child, where you keep your car keys in your home. When you pick up your car keys you also pick up the toy and bring it with you along with the baby to the car. You place the toy in the unforgettable and un-missable place where you are certain to see it when you arrive at your destination and park your car. If you are dropping off the baby at daycare, for example, you keep the toy in the un-missable spot in your car. Thus when you get in your car at the end of your work day, you see the toy there and remember that it's your turn to pick up the baby. When you arrive home and put your car keys in their usual place you put the "baby on board" toy next to your keys, ready for the next use.

Do it, folks, and tell others to do so. Better yet, buy extras and give them to other parents and explain the idea to them. I really hope this helps.