“Hic! Dush anyyyone knowww ifff therrrre arrre any…. rrrrr… roadblocks on the… onnnn the way to….. tooo…
“Where do I live again, hic?”
How many times have we heard that from some drunk who is only really worried about being caught by the fuzz and not about harming or even killing someone else on their zigzag trip home.
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They are way beyond giving a fig about driving a potential ‘weapon of mass destruction’.
Only last week, a family of four children and four adults on holiday from Pietermaritzburg were wiped out near Umzumbe by an elderly man in a bakkie who had allegedly had one beer.
(Note the word ‘alleged’, as the actual facts have to come out in court before we can apportion blame, but that’s not the point of this column. However, one has to take exception to one post on Facebook by someone querying why there were eight people in one car!)
Whether this man had been drinking or not, there is no denying that many of us… and I include myself… fall foul of the law and plain old common sense when we drink and drive.
We all think we can ‘handle our drink’ and that ‘one or two’ won’t make a difference. We are all more concerned about ‘being caught’ than ‘killing’.
Yet we are all aghast when we read stories about the horrific Umzumbe accident and countless others just like it.
We proudly joke about narrow escapes from getting caught:
Like when a passenger pretended to be having an epileptic fit and the driver (drunk) had to ‘get him to hospital quickly’;
Like the one when the driver (drunk) put pedal to the metal at a roadblock and drove over the traffic officer’s foot;
Like the one when the driver (drunk) stopped before the roadblock, rolled over into the back seat and told the police the ‘real’ driver had run off;
Like the time the driver (drunk) instructed another driver (drunker) to follow his tail lights to get home.
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The drunker tailgater ended up smashing into the back of the leader when he parked in his own garage.
What’s the answer? Do we stop golfers buying each other drinks after a game? Do we stop people from popping in at their local for a ‘relaxative’ on their way home from work?
This country doesn’t have a good public transport system, minibus taxis will only service profitable routes at profitable times and Uber is a city-slicker thing.
The answer? Angazi.
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