WORDS: ROGER MORONEY
MORONEY’S LOOKING FORWARD
TO THE ARRIVAL OF NOISELESS
ELECTRIC BIKES… FOR OTHERS
NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM...
C
ould it be something in the water
perchance? Or something in the air?
On the subject of the latter there is
a terrible cloud of pollen drifting through
the air down this way so maybe pollen is the
secret ingredient of whatever it is the road-
racing lunatics inhale.
Over the past few months there seems to
have been an increase in the number of car
chases hitting the front pages or the evening
news… not to mention the general airwaves
as I’ve personally heard two taking place on
nearby streets.
I’ve also grown kind of used to hearing the
sounds of hard-revving engines which send
out moving sound waves indicating the
chassis containing them are doing a hell of
a lot more than the speed limit. I don’t think
I’m imagining it but it just seems to be more
prevalent these days.
So if it ain’t the pollen what is it that gets into
the heads of some young pilots who see a
journey in the car as an opportunity to have a
competitive crack at the road rules?
Or a race with some other brain-flawed
pilot?
I daresay the terrifying surge of stuff like
meth’ (which has almost developed into a
major industry across many lands) is part of
the equation… as is having a few too many
shots of something bought on the cheap
from a bottle store.
I dunno, but it has got worse.
Only yesterday, while waiting at the lights,
some fruitloop in some lowered piece of
mechanical menace went charging across
at what I reckon would have been about
80km/h… and this was about 150 metres
from a school off a nearby street.
It brought about the usual verbal reaction
from me, which is now part of our motoring
vocabulary.
“Where are the cops when you need them?”
Well basically, they can’t be everywhere of
course, and they are down on numbers so