On Driving
Why does driving bring out the worst in people?
For example, during one particularly hot day in July in the early morning hours, an elderly female wandered onto the freeway and was struck by a vehicle traveling over 60 miles per hour. As you can imagine, she was killed instantly. The freeway was quickly shut down (at 6 a.m.) and the accident reconstruction began (which is procedural and not my nor my supervisor’s decision). This usually takes between two and four hours. You would not believe the number of people, who, because they were forced to exit the freeway after hours in gridlock, felt it prudent and necessary to yell obscenities at the lowly police officer. As if it was my fault. All this while he is standing next to a blood-soaked white sheet.
Read it all here.
I may add: How can you tell someone is a redeemed Christian filled with grace?
Look at the way he drives.
[HT: Jonathan Wong@FB]
Filed by edmund at 5.48 pm under Culture,Faith |
One Comment
Anson
I think the reason is because power corrupts.
And the modern automobile is the ultimate piece of empowering technology that everyone has access to.
Therefore, driving brings the worst out in people, even the most common folk.
Nov 4th, 2009
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