I should had been writing on this earlier but time just wasn't on my side, as you know i am a busy person and a busy person certainly does not have time to put down their thoughts in words. Somehow, i just decided to take a break and slack off. Period.
I was reading through the papers till something caught my attention. By attracting my attention, this said "thing" certainly does mean something to me. Obviously, i aint too bothered about all the rubbish on the papers nowadays except for this:
REDUCTION OF TRAFFIC OFFENSES!!!
Ecstatic will be somewhat exaggerated , relieved in fact to received such a wonderful news. Tell me, how on earth would such bold statements be made by the head of our royal malaysian police or was it, which came up with the ingenious idea of reducing traffic offenses in order to have the citizens to pay up their outstanding fines?
By having the " reduction of fines on traffic offenses will be exercised
as a measure to tackle the oustanding fines of the road users. " as a so-called self-proclaimed legit reason/excuse, the head of our respected
PDRM ( correct me if i am wrong ), certainly had much more questions to answers. Obviously not from our shallow publics who are petrified of blurting out politically incorrect statements , but none other than me.
Yes , first of all, the statements made by
mr-i-m-the-head-of-PDRM-and-i-m-the-boss came up were base on his own @ the traffic's opinion and it was all printed on the papers the very next morning for all to see. ALL as in the public and the statements made were without the actual approval from the transport minister of our beloved country. The
mr-i-am-the-boss even came up with remarks about how "our country is earning less due to the public's not settling their traffic fines" which i think is utter B.U.L.L. with the capital B.
However, his cheeky attempt to make sure that the reduction goes on without the approval of the transport minister aka Dr Chan Kong Choy (?) , were met by various objects by the government. To top it off, Mr wise cop even retorted back that " such moves ( reduction of traffic fines ) could be made by the traffics w/o the knowledge or approval from the transportation minister".
Showing some balls is it mr wise cop? How about i shove that baton up where the sun don't shine of yours for making us the public look silly with the hope of reduction of fines which might had made my day as i have more fines to settle.
Guess what, as expected, the papers next day features a
small column which reads "
fines of traffic stays for the meantime " with a 9 size arial font where only the bionic mutants could barely see. This is ridiculous, i am appalled , shocked, and depress by what had become of our police dept.
I have been supportive , respectful of our royal malaysian cops all these while (
sometimes i do offer them some early retirement fund - incentive is the way they see it), but somehow after such an incident, the police had left a sour mark on themselves and the only thing they will received now from me is just the royale salute.
All this fuss about going ahead and staying put is just making our country look silly. Heck, it's sending out a wrong message to the foreigners. Dumb authorities who had been watching too much of the shakespeare novels " TO REDUCE OR NOT TO REDUCE" . The tabloids here even made a big deal out of it by occupying the whole front page with RED COLOURED BOLD FONTS AS IF WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING. OH YES WE CAN, NOW CAN YOU PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH TO TURN OFF THE CAPSLOCK? ITS AN EYE SORE.
Another thing to note about was some nonsense made by the transportation dept about not allowing the reduction of fines as it will cause the publics to continue with other traffic offenses that may lead to accidents - such as having heavily tinted cars, modified exhaust, beating red lights, driving slowly on the fast lane.
Ok, let's be fair, heavily tinted cars actually does obstruct the view of oncoming cars but it certainly SHOULD NOT be the classified as the primary cause for accident in M'sia. Count how many heavily tinted cars are involved in a road mishap? 3 out of 10?
Modified Exhaust? Now, this is debatable. Picture this scene, a race car with a huge 4" dia exhaust creeping up from behind your car , who would not had been aware of it's presence? Unless you have some serious auditory problem, then there's no reason for not knowing the tune-up race car is just beside you, but if you do have hearing problem, you shouldn't be driving in the first place. I say the relevant authorities, whatever fancy JPJ, JJJ, or PDJ wanna classify themselve with some catchy name as should legalize exhaust. It's a blessing in disguise actually.
Drivers who beat the red lights should be punished severely. I ain't talking about being slapped with amounts like RM300 or RM400. This reckless drivers should be given the mandatory death penalty. For beating the lights, they endanger the lives of the public , those who jay walks. Anyway, i don't have any sympathy for jay-walkers as it is an offense too.
Talking about in which jay-walking is an offense, it's funny how the public's on foot heedlessly crossing the road aren't slap with any fines at all in our country. I admit i've done that a couple of times just to see how efficient our police force are disregarding my safety. I am sorry to say, it's worst than i had expected.
What really ticks me off is whenever there's any major crime committed within our society, all you hear are grown ups whining and moaning about how under-staffed they are, but the second you have your tune up race car out on the streets cruising at a meagre speed of 20kmh , you will have swarms of men in white surrounding you like you have just robbed off their dignity by riding on such a luxurious vehicle which they practically could not afford.
I really do think it lies with the authorities itself for coming up with shrewd laws and regulations. Something must be done. Something...
