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Post by larny on Apr 22, 2008 9:48:02 GMT
All last week I had to travel through Blackwood High Street,every night once in the early evening then again around 10pm. From Thursday onwards it was CHAOTIC! The noise of the suped up cars is immense! FACT It is busier by night than day. The biggest majority of drivers, are as we know, youngsters who have nothing better to do with their time than car cruising. However, I was shocked at just how many of these wannabeseenand heards, were girls! It beggars the question, what do their parents think they are up to? Okay, they may be young adults, but they probably still live under the same roof?! I really dont understand why ASDA put up with it either. Going in there at 9pm Thursday was a nightmare and very off putting. If you aint shopping, you shouldnt be allowed in the car park. It's thanks to those saddo's we have to suffer those awful speed humps! GET A LIFE, GUYS AND GALS!
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mona
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Post by mona on Apr 22, 2008 14:44:20 GMT
I couldn't agree more Larny, sometimes the girls are even worse. They race up and down the new road and on Highfield's. The other day while I was within the compulsory speed limit (30)leading up to the traffic lights a young woman overtook me narrowly missing a car coming towards us! She raced up to the lights then had to stop! I drew up behind her. She could have been killed and all for arriving at the same place at the same time! Stupidity personified! I also agree about Asda's car park but another worrying thing is the amount of children riding their bikes around there on weekends and school holidays. They seem to have no sense of the danger and weave in and out of the parked and moving cars. These children are not too young to understand that they could be seriously injured or killed if a car reverses out of a space and hits them. Again...where are the parents? Don't they ask their children where they intend "playing" on their bikes? Surely if the answer was a car-park they should be horrified!
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Post by larny on Apr 23, 2008 8:01:41 GMT
PHEW! Almost nodded my head off in agreement there, Mona! I also noticed there are a lot of motor bikes, (not proper beasts, the little chicken chasing type) too, and they ride side by side through town, probably behind their mates.
Back last summer I was walking from Oakdale to Blackwood via the bridge. There were 3 foul mouthed youths with pushbikes, who thought nothing of weaving in and out the traffic. Anyone who blasted their horn just got a load of abuse. Then, on the bridge, they dismounted and actually climbed over the barrier, right where flowers had been tied, to mark the loss of a lad that had jumped!!!!! My heart was in my mouth! I cant believe they had such disregard for their lives, it was really scary to witness. One little slip is all it would have taken. I'll never understand why the barrier on the non-pedestrian side of the bridge is so much shorter - it's asking for trouble! I know kids will be kids, whatever the generation, but they seem so much worse these days, I dont know, maybe it's because I'm old and sensible now!!A lot of it comes down to parenting though, doesn't it? My son is 12 and I know where he is 24/7, because that's how we brought him up.
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Post by mona on Apr 24, 2008 8:20:36 GMT
Grrrr grrrr Those little motor bikes and their senseless riders! Grrrr Also the idiots who ride around on those 3 wheeler things without any number-plates (I forget what they are called). I think they are used for off-road sports so they are being illegally ridden on public roads! That brings it around to another thing - riding motor-bikes etc. on woodland and mountainside tearing up land for the fun of it. Of course the sort of people who do that care little for the rights of others not to have the environment scarred and not to have to put up with the incessant noise! I never seem to read or hear about any prosecutions for this sort of activity. I passed a couple of lads pulling at the trees near the roundabout leading on to the bridge from town, I couldn't stop the car as the traffic was busy. One of the kids started to urinate in full view of the traffic. I don't think it is because we are growing older that we disapprove I know I never approved of the type of behaviour we see about us everyday now. I don't think it was the case in the past. There no longer seems to be the "Just William" mentality amongst children...you know - cabin building, little adventures, playing using imaginations even if the road to hell was laid with their good intentions lol! Time for the old-fashioned Bobby on the beat methinks. The kids don't think anything of abusing the new "community-not-quite-a- policeman".
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