...wait a minute, there is! (There ought to be a law about that!)

Member Name: ermintrude

Product:	There ought to be a law about that!
Date:	12/08/02 (58 review reads)
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While I heartily agree with many of the suggestions made by others in this category, my current pet rants are about things which are already forbidden by law, it's just that nobody ever enforces it! So here they are:

1. stealth cyclists
You're already one of the most vulnerable road users, so why do you choose to make it worse by wearing dark clothing and not having any lights? How many times have I (as a cyclist too) had to swerve around idiots who are trying to audition for the part of the Cycling Milk Tray Man? GET SOME LIGHTS YOU TIGHT GIT! *Ahem*. It's not just yourself you put at risk - imagine the mental effects on the driver who knocks you over, or, if you are terminally selfish, imagine being put in prison for a couple of months because the cyclist who swerved to avoid your invisible self on the cyclepath was run over and killed when he fell into the road. This has happened.

2. pavement cyclists
Okay, I said you were vulnerable, but that doesn't give you the right to ride on the pavement. If the road's "too busy", find another route, or another time, or just get yourself a reflective jacket and learn to cycle assertively. There's no excuse. Pavements are for people without wheels.

3. pavement poopers
Why should I have to slalom round fido's latest offering? Why should I have to walk with my eyes permanently glued to the pavement? If you have a dog, you have to deal with poo. Get over it and learn to clean up, or buy a wooden dog with wheels. This goes double for the idiot who lets their dog crap in the middle of the road near my house. I'd like to thank them for the opportunity to choose between splattering myself with dog deposits and swerving into the path of the oncoming car.

4. school runners
Okay, I know the school run itself is not illegal. But driving without due care and attention is, as is parking on double yellow lines and school crossing zigzags. Note to
driving parents: other people exist outside your metal-and-glass case, you know. I think some parents would park in the classroom if they could. No wonder their little Chloes and Jacks are rather rotund.

5. noisy neighbours
There is a law against playing music at club volume in a normal terraced house. However, the local council do not want to know unless they have months' worth of diaries and letters sent in triplicate. The police do not want to know unless there's a "disturbance". Hello? I'm having to shout down the phone and ask you to repeat everything, and there's no disturbance??

6. litter louts
Why is it so hard to hang on to your crisp packet until you find a bin? Conversely, why is it so hard to find a bin when you need one? Is it so hard to put one at each end of a well-used path to the shops? Maybe so, but it's a lot easier than picking up the litter after the grass mower has chopped it all into a million pieces. That's what I call hard. Which is probably why nobody bothers to do it.


Can we have a law against not enforcing the perfectly good laws that already exist?

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