Dear Editor:
Re: Brendan McAleer’s column entitled Mixed Reaction to Cherry Picking Police (April 1).
Brendan, Brendan, Brendan... Your April 1 column, I’m hoping, was appropriate for the date.
I love your car column but I wish you would please stick to obsessing about cup holders or lack of and the fact that some new car is 10 millimetres longer, shorter or higher than before. I wish you would stick to talking about cars and leave the heavy lifting about road safety to others more qualified, like the cops. They see it all.
Regarding your comments that going up in the cherry picker was “unfair, unsporting.” So, you are saying it’s OK for the jerk in the Mercedes (or BMW) to talk on the phone and put my life in danger? What you overlook is that driving is not a right, not a game and not a contest. When some self-absorbed, oblivious “my-time-is-more-important-than-your-safety” driver does dumb things, it makes my blood boil.
I’ve been driving for 50 years. Talking, texting, hands-free ( yes, even hands-free) is an accident waiting to happen. That selfish act is putting my safety and other innocent third parties at risk. Nobody has to get hurt on the road.
Good on the cops, bad on the idiots.
Distracted driving is just like driving drunk. Take the phone and car away for a day, then I guarantee stupid behaviour will stop.
If the cops want to go up in a cherry picker or do somersaults in the middle of the road to get drivers to behave like responsible adults, then I’m all for it. The cops are doing a great job, and a ticket for unsafe behaviour is better than wrecking everyone’s family for the rest of their life.
Bruce Lindsay
North Vancouver
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