Why can't I use my CHL to reduce the stupidity level on the highways? Isn't it assault with a deadly weapon when they try to run me over? Can't I defend myself against these losers? How about if I just shoot out a front tire and remove the threat to myself? Do I have to kill the driver and have him wreck and kill his two kids in the back seat?
I think we should require everyone to ride a motorcycle for 30 days. It would do three things: 1. Make cagers more aware of their surroundings and dangers on the road. 2. Stop them from texting, eating, putting on makeup, facetiming. 3. Eliminate members of that gene pool that insist on being an idiot.
It seems to always happen with multiple incidents. I ride every single day from Cypress to University of Houston and back... and it is either smooth riding with nothing out of the ordinary or multiple 'so this is how I die' moments.
Monday afternoon as I drove home, at the choke point where SH242 is reduced from two lanes to one at the San Jacinto River, I saw a silver Suburban coming up fast through the safety zone. The driver, with a cellular telephone clasped to the side of his head, was passing all of the traffic at high speed, in the safety zone. He continued until the safety zone narrowed down, forcing him into the oncoming traffic, and he just bulled his way into the line of cars, forcing several drivers to brake hard and one to swerve onto the shoulder. I ran the plate, and the owner's DL. The owner is currently under eighteen active DL suspensions. He has had four other suspensions that are expired. He has a THREE PAGE driving history. His LP return shows current insurance. And when he totals that Suburban, he will just go buy another vehicle, without a driver's license (a dealer just sold him that Suburban in August). He will buy insurance from an agent who knows his license is suspended, because it will be pure profit -- the policy won't cover an unlicensed driver, but he can get the vehicle registered and inspected with that insurance card. And nobody can stop this guy from driving. He's got rights....... Our jails are all overcrowded, so we have to write the guy a citation with a court date and release him. The court will give him a fine and another suspension, and turn him loose. They will warn him not to drive again, or they'll suspend his license.......This guy is out there driving around with y'all. And he will continue to do so, after he gets his nineteenth suspension. And his twentieth. And his twenty first.......
