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Registered Member #3900
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What do you think? Up to a year in jail and, sitting right in the middle of it, the storm's not all that bad. I've seen snow worse than this, and the snow itself isn't really what gets people, it's the black ice the following days. A bit harsh?
Registered Member #53
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 638
That is some of the stupidest nannying I have heard in a while. Why punish people who are prepared and capable of travelling in severe weather? There was over a foot of wet slippy snow on the ground this morning and unlike hundreds of other people I made it to and from work without ending upside down in a ditch because I was prepared with 4 wheel drive and proper tires, should I have stayed home? The difference between 1 and 3 feet of snow is significant as far as it concerns road travel but that doesn't mean you can put a whole state on house arrest.
People willing to give up freedom for safety don't deserve either.
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Joined: Tue Oct 16 2012, 12:16AM
Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Nik wrote ...
That is some of the stupidest nannying I have heard in a while. Why punish people who are prepared and capable of travelling in severe weather? There was over a foot of wet slippy snow on the ground this morning and unlike hundreds of other people I made it to and from work without ending upside down in a ditch because I was prepared with 4 wheel drive and proper tires, should I have stayed home? The difference between 1 and 3 feet of snow is significant as far as it concerns road travel but that doesn't mean you can put a whole state on house arrest.
People willing to give up freedom for safety don't deserve either.
I Agree. Those are some pathetic bans. Sounds like a ditch effort to make some extra cash, governments these days......
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Franklin was quoted many ways: "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both" ...But he was not a nice fellow despite his accomplishments,
People-Popsicle are still common in northern climates... you know... fools out at a bar that take an ill advised nap in a snow bank on the way home. Several missing homeless also sprout-up from the melting snow in early spring....
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Patric wrote ... There will be great temptation to play in the snow [following the storm] and so forth, and I totally understand, but please, please exercise caution and use common sense[/blockquote]
To me it seems like our governor is babying people on the governmental level. Just to say something like that makes me angry; he refers to us as childish, irresponsible, and stupid. One of my biggest philosophies in life is "If someone wants to be a raging idiot, let them. It'll be at their expense." That might sound harsher than I meant it, but it's true. Let people have their freedom, if they make bad choices, they're the only one to blame.
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If the road is full of stuck cars how are emergency services supposed to get around? It's not just the people in the cars affected by a gridlock. Driving your car on public roads is hardly a fundamental freedom IMO.
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Over here, 2cm of snow (!) crippled the public transport. I kid you not. I had to cycle to work, and overtook about 30 cars on the way because one !d!0t had taken a turn too wide and nearly ended up in someone's garden.
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Pinky's Brain wrote ...
If the road is full of stuck cars how are emergency services supposed to get around? It's not just the people in the cars affected by a gridlock. Driving your car on public roads is hardly a fundamental freedom IMO.
Its not a fundamental freedom by any means but taking it away pretty much puts the whole state on house arrest. A healthy person can walk several km on a nice day no problem but slogging through snow is brutal. Unless you have snow shoes, skis or a snowmobile you are pretty much stuck.
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In some areas they use the sidewalk walker, but its legally only required within a radius of the schools (if they want to open them that is). That means that until the ban is lifted, there is absolutely no way anyone is going anywhere. The roads are fine as they most always are due to the plows and sand trucks last night, but there's still a good two feet of snow everywhere else. No power outages or emergencies in my region.
I agree with Nik. While it's not a fundamental freedom, it’s the only way people are leaving their houses.
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