From Outerlimits
I like Reader Joe Hubbard at the bottom!!!! LMAO
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This is a clipping straight out of the herald...
honestly, i think they are just over doing this, specially the one in the last paragraph...he needs to be shot.
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Sydney or the bush
"I can no longer remain one of the silent majority in relation to the ill-informed persecution of 4WD owners," writes Tim.
Sorry, Tim, but it seems the overwhelming majority of Spike readers support the anti-4WD campaign we started on Monday.
As of yesterday afternoon, 83 per cent of emails were against these beastly incarnations of selfishness, with only 17 per cent in favour. And to clarify: it's to reduce the number of oversized cars - 4WD and 2WD - on
Sydney's streets. Cars such as the Toyota LandCruiser, Nissan Patrol, Porsche Cayenne and so on.
They are dangerous: more prone to roll over than, say, sedans or hatchbacks; and, in a crash with smaller vehicles, they are more deadly. Here's a stat from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau: between 1996 and 1998, 36
young children died in low-speed driveway accidents; more than half of those killed by passenger vehicles were killed by large 4WDs.
Reader Dave Bredeson sent the egg and brick image on the left: "This is what I visualise when I'm out on the road with those big, bad vehicles of mass destruction."
And reader Joe Hubbard had a sensible suggestion: "Clearly the 4WD has no function in cities, towns and suburbs and the constant use of these vehicles in these areas must raise suspicion. Our duty is to report every sighting of a 4WD in a city to ASIO as a terrorist suspect, a possible bomb-carrying vehicle or even carriers of dreaded illegal immigrants or refugees. Be alert not afraid. These drivers belong in Baxter detention centre until their motives are clarified."