Society seems to get
more violent every year. People are much less tolerant of each other that they
were a generation ago. What’s the cause of that, is it television, lack of
parental control during childhood and adolescents? Lack of respect for others
or other people’s property? Whatever it is we see more violent acts every night
on news bulletins. Take Road Rage for instance. How many of you have been at
the blunt end of verbal or even violent abuses on the road. I have. Some years ago,
when I legally entered a roundabout, being the first one to do so, a young
P-plate driver who was at least 50 meters away when I entered the roundabout,
sped up to me followed me shaking his fist and pointing his middle finger into
the sky. He followed me to the next red light, then jumped out of the car and
was about to come up to me when he saw that I had stopped next to a police car
in the next lane. That seemed to change his mind and he snuck back to his car
and started to behave himself.
A couple of weeks ago
we saw an incident on the news, where an irate driver overtook an ex-policeman,
then backed up and hit him. He did this several times before he eventually
jumped out of his vehicle and jumped onto the other vehicle smashing his windscreen,
all very nicely captured on the ex-policeman’s car-cam.
He ended up in court
where he claimed the footage shown was a fabrication. Other people also came
forward who had been harassed by the same driver.
I started to look into
car cams and found they are actually not very expensive, so I went out and bought
one. It only cost me $40, mounts easily on the windscreen and records out of
the front wherever we drive. It’s fun too, watching the footage when you get
home.
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