Dear ethel,
I must say thank you kindly for bringing up and
standing for the right things... goans should stand
for and fight for.
Your articles do make lot of difference for us true
goans who have been brought up with love,peace and
rightfull way of living even if its means fighting
against the mighty , evil and powerfull.
I do wants to say thank you again kindly and may god
bless you to lead that trend of writting against the
traitors and evils so that goa and goans will rise to
stand for,fight for and defeat all that is
evil.......... goans have to bear being with evils and
evil rulers.
In true god we trust,
FRANCESCO BARROS.
goaworldtoday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Ethel gets into a rage about road ethics
HEART 2 HEART
BY ETHEL DA COSTA
Does life come cheap in Goa?
I don't have a strong stomach for blood. Let alone see
it spurting
out of a human body. If Goa is progressing in leaps
and bounds - read
that as more traffic chaos and pathetic road
discipline - there is
also exists an insensitive twin that looks on and
drives away. If
not, add more to road rage. This I saw first hand at
the tragic road
accident, early New Year's Day at Porvorim, on my way
home after the
evening's festivities. The sight made my blood curdle
in fright.
Between a mangled heap of metal and the leftovers of
two mauled
wheelers, lay three bodies sprawled in grotesque
positions that still
chills goose bumps on my skin. As we slowed down to
take stock and
help, I watched other cars nonchalantly drive past as
one would a
regular scene. "Oh accident? The buggers must have
been drunk,"
yelled an occupant from a passing car, even as I
hysterically dialed
the police and ambulance to get to the venue, wherever
they were. I
must laud the services at this point of time for
promptly responding
to the call of distress, but for my visibly shaken
group of friends
who drove home in silence. Me, in quiet anger. `Did we
get help on
time? Could the boys have better chances of survival
if somebody had
called in earlier?' `What happens in the villages
where 100 and 102
are simply digits with no face or purpose?' And then
fury at the
drunk comment who was also endangering some victim's
life on the road
along with the occupants of his car. Those rich,
spoilt brats who
drink while driving to a party. The insensitivity of
people who don't
stop to help at an accident, because they don't want
to get involved.
But most of all, why weren't the boys wearing helmets?
Are we turning into an insensitive, uncivilized
society?
If not blood and gore shown on our Goa Liberation VCD
(so many
twisted minds wanting to twist history and poison our
systems with
more poison), then there's much blood and gore on our
roads. It is
mayhem with a legal license. An alarming 28 percent
increase in fatal
road accidents, according to 2004 statistics, cannot
be brushed under
the carpet. We're talking precious lives here ....
victims who could
be somebody's wife, husband, brother, son, daughter, a
family's only
livelihood..
We have only ourselves to blame for this murder by
mutual consent,
because unfortunate quirks of fate are far less than
the ones we
bring upon ourselves because of our under-developed
road sense. Look
at our road ethics. They are primitive, if not a sure
fire death
warrant in sealing our own fate. From drivers who get
their licenses
passing a note under the table, to vehicles that don't
even possess
proper registration papers, we are a race speeding
towards our own
doom. How? Because we still haven't learnt that a seat
belt can save
your life. So, whom are we fooling when we see a cop
at an
intersection and hurriedly pretend to wear a belt
(what of those cars
which still don't have seat belts?). Likewise, wearing
a helmet
(all those silly, lengthy, baseless arguments when it
comes to
helmets are exasperating). Similarly, we still haven't
learnt that
driving and cell phone jabbering don't go together. In
the car or on
a bike (yeah, especially on a bike. Mother-in-law or
hot girlfriend
on the line, we don't care. Do your business at home).
These cell
phone glued species are potential high risk, dangerous
riders/drivers
and must be challan-ed big time. I would implore the
cops to ban or
confiscate their damn instruments, if not used with a
hands-free on
the road. It annoys me that we are such a senseless,
moronic
population that we need cops to forcefully remind us
to be
responsible and save our own butts, when it should be
our duty to
ensure the safety of our own lives. Don't we
automatically follow
these rules abroad? So, why a fuss in our own country?
Why can't we
get people sensitive? But, this is Goa you see? And
life these days
comes at a low premium.
So, what good these yearly Road Safety Week programmes
which address
traffic discipline issues with an elitist view, even
as you find
people violating traffic rules right in front of the
traffic
personnel? Mr Chief Minister, since your roads have
now become super
fast, how about some super sure traffic guidelines
(and zebra
crossings along the Campal-Miramar highway) since you
do love
playing 'super cop' once in a while. Get on the
streets and rap the
violators. In times like these, action does speak
louder than words.
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