Scenario One
You’re driving home. You’re behind a motorcyclist doing the speed limit. You want to go a bit faster. The highway’s a bit busy, so you can’t over take. You start tailgating. A hidden on-ramp hides an approaching truck about to join in front of the motorcyclist. The truck pulls out and the motorcyclist starts to slow down. You’re a bit too close so have to hit the brakes hard. You skid. Nothing else happens.
That’s not a near miss, it’s a lucky survival.
Scenario Two
You’re driving home. You’re behind a motorcyclist doing the speed limit. You want to go a bit faster. The street is a bit busy and there’s only one lane. There’s some space ahead where there are no parked cars. You get closer to the motorcyclist to make it easier to overtake on the left. The motorcyclists chain snaps and jams his back wheel. The wheel stops immediately and the motorcycle starts slowing down quickly. You’re mind isn’t prepared - you’re still thinking about overtaking. You hit the back of the motorcycle at 60. The bike’s doing 30. The motorcyclist comes off. He dies.
That’s not an accident, it’s manslaughter.
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Apparently it’s a license that you can obtain on certain classifications of land (for instance, if it’s Crown Land) for the purpose of managing and caring for the land. The area becomes a conservation area and is you’re responsibility to care for.
Although the land is not your by title, while you have a license for conservation, it it yours to do with as you please as long as you’re acting within the guidelines of the license. Bulldozing the whole place down is not permitted, I would imagine.
Anyway, if you know what I’m talking about, and can help me find the person or department I need to speak to to obtain one, then please get in touch. So far the people my wife and I have spoken to at the Department for Sustainability and the Environment don’t seem to know…
In the 50/50 section Herald Sun, 31st January 2006 (again), reader Doug Townsley refers to another reader’s question, why the Australian Army weren’t helping fight fires, by suggesting it was for the “same reason we didn’t sent the CFA to East Timor”.
I would imagine having extra people pointing hoses at fires can only help, whereas sending untrained people to war is tantamount to murder. Now whether there are enough hoses to go around is another matter…
(For the overseas readers, the CFA is the Country Fire Authority, one of the two fire-fighting organisations in Victoria.)
I was astounded to learn today, that life-long friends aren’t actually friends for life!
On leaving her job at Channel 10, Jennifer Hansen was reported to have said that:
she would miss colleagues, who had become life-long friends
Herald Sun, 31st January 2006
Well blow me over…