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Jul 172003
 

Another oldster, 86, hits the wrong pedal and kills 9 people. I’ve ranted about this before, but with all of the baby boomers getting older, us younger folk need to protect ourselves and get laws passed for annual mandatory driving tests over a certain age. I’ll start with 65 because it’s an easy number, but am willing to alter that based on scientific evidence as to when your reflexes really start going downhill. Of course, we know that oldsters are a huge voting block and will never go for this, fat chance of getting it passed in Florida. Yes, I’m willing to subject myself to the same law in 35 years.

 Posted by on July 17, 2003 at 6:45 pm
Sep 042007
 

As with most years around here, we had some new laws go into effect on September 1st. This News8Austin story summarizes a few of the things that changed on Saturday, but I’m particularly interested in two of them. Katie’s Law – It’s about f-ing time something like this went on the books. I’ve been advocating […]

 Posted by on September 4, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Dec 292005
 

I’m in danger of jinxing it here, but I’ve never been summoned to jury duty. I’m not sure if it’s all of the moving around I did between ages 17 and 27, but a jury summons has yet to darken my mailbox. At $6/day for pay, who’d want to do it anyway? Well, all that […]

 Posted by on December 29, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Dec 152003
 

The 1 or 2 readers of this blog will recall that I’ve railed about senior citizen drivers and how they should have annual mandatory testing to keep their licenses. You’ll find it amusing then that we were hit by an elderly driver on the way home from the grocery store last night. The whole family […]

 Posted by on December 15, 2003 at 6:09 pm
Jan 242003
 

I’ve definitely railed on this topic in the past and may have even posted about it. Here’s yet another incident, this one local, of an oldster hitting the wrong pedal and plowing into a structure and/or some people. There should be a mandatory driving exam every year for anyone over the age of 65 who […]

 Posted by on January 24, 2003 at 7:39 pm