Stupidity In Abundance
A few days ago a 33-year-old man was charged by Ontario Provincial Police with operating a motor vehicle with over 80 milligrams of alcohol in his blood. This Kanata man was pulled over for erratic driving, and an expired validation sticker on the vehicle's license plate. He was on his way to pick his son up from day care. This does fairly well seem incomprehensible, that anyone would be so incredibly irresponsible.
But there it is, a man approaching his mid-30s, drinking to inebriation, getting into his vehicle for the express purpose of collecting his child from daycare. And he would be driving his child, while drunk. Posing as a direct danger to the child and to any other driver on the road, or pedestrian or bicycle rider who might conceivably happen to get in the way. Someone so inebriated his erratic driving was noticed and he was stopped.
Someone who was so inebriated that he would be incapable of discharging his obligation as a driver, to react to any emergency situation that he would himself be responsible for. And yet think nothing about getting into that car, about driving his young son back home from daycare. And about posing a real hazard to the health and lives of other people.
Several days later another incident, illustrating yet another Ottawa resident absent a conscience, let alone intelligence. Staff at a LCBO store on Carling Avenue had refused to sell alcohol to a man who was clearly inebriated. He was observed to have walked into several signs and a guard rail as he entered the store.
Refused service, he staggered again, exiting the LCBO. And LCBO staff noted that he got behind the wheel of a vehicle. At that point they called police. The police arrived just in time to see the man hit a cyclist, who suffered critical head injuries. The driver was arrested at the scene.
That accident occurred at 2:30 p.m., on Carling Avenue. At the scene of the accident, police cars surrounded the mournfully sad scene of a mangled bicycle, a backpack and a pile of blankets.
But there it is, a man approaching his mid-30s, drinking to inebriation, getting into his vehicle for the express purpose of collecting his child from daycare. And he would be driving his child, while drunk. Posing as a direct danger to the child and to any other driver on the road, or pedestrian or bicycle rider who might conceivably happen to get in the way. Someone so inebriated his erratic driving was noticed and he was stopped.
Someone who was so inebriated that he would be incapable of discharging his obligation as a driver, to react to any emergency situation that he would himself be responsible for. And yet think nothing about getting into that car, about driving his young son back home from daycare. And about posing a real hazard to the health and lives of other people.
Several days later another incident, illustrating yet another Ottawa resident absent a conscience, let alone intelligence. Staff at a LCBO store on Carling Avenue had refused to sell alcohol to a man who was clearly inebriated. He was observed to have walked into several signs and a guard rail as he entered the store.
Refused service, he staggered again, exiting the LCBO. And LCBO staff noted that he got behind the wheel of a vehicle. At that point they called police. The police arrived just in time to see the man hit a cyclist, who suffered critical head injuries. The driver was arrested at the scene.
That accident occurred at 2:30 p.m., on Carling Avenue. At the scene of the accident, police cars surrounded the mournfully sad scene of a mangled bicycle, a backpack and a pile of blankets.
A mangled red bicycle, backpack and blankets mark the spot on Carling Avenue near Kirkwood Avenue where a car struck a 31-year-old cyclist, who was in critical condition in hospital late Thursday night. Photograph by: Chris Mikula, The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Citizen
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