No swerving with abandon
Wild life. Wildlife, living dangerously. This is the time of year that the new arrivals in the local woods test their ability to live in dangerous times, as they cross the road with abandon. Doesn’t matter the species: rabbits, foxes, skunks. All show their unfamiliarity with that other species, the “fast auto”. Here, in the living room, we have a seat on the sidelines, and there’s a lot of imprecation over the risks taken.
I hadn’t much thought about it, but drivers don’t have the right to “swerve with abandon” when it comes to avoidance. In Ontario, a truck driver avoided a family of ducks that were practicing poor pedestrian safety. The truck left the roadway and ended in a swamp. The driver received a hefty fine for his care and attention to wildlife. “Lack of due care and attention” according to those that enforce the traffic act.
Here, in the country, we see the results. Not so much trucks in the swamp, but rather corpses on the highway. Literal roadkill. No sense in posting speed limits; as drivers tend to ignore anything that doesn’t have an official police observer on watch. Over the weekend, a visitor with a high speed auto did his best to test those limits (with success). No police, no road kill. This time.
I’d love to get a radar gun, just for my own curiosity, but I don’t coach minor baseball, so I can’t claim to be checking the speedball of my best pitcher. Perhaps I can volunteer, and then repurpose the radar during periods before and after the games.
