Vancouver is full of colour-blind drivers
Over the last few years, drivers running solid red lights have been getting much worse! I thought Crayola was in charge of inventing colors, but Vancouver has one of its own, maybe “Who Gives a Shit Red?”. Many drivers just might need a pair of EnChroma glasses to assist with identifying color. As well, day in and day out, I see bus drivers with their "honk-and-run" strategy with regards to red lights.
I must make a couple of apologies though. While walking across East 1st at Woodland last Saturday right about 4:20pm, (where a three-car accident severed a light standard earlier this year) a driver slowly coasted into me about four meters away. You guessed it – the light was solid red. I truly didn’t know how baked he was and I should have realized and not tested his motor skills so early in the day. I'm sorry.
There must be a good fine for light-running and a good reason to curb it, no? Focus on speeders, but change it up a bit and put an officer on the corner anywhere between Main and Commercial and the city will make a fortune on one of “Vancouver’s Inland Highways”; and maybe have a few less accidents.
–Kff
Shame the water-wasters
This message is for the idiot at 1022 Nelson who wasted a few thousand gallons of fresh water on Friday afternoon pressure-washing his patio: Vancouver is in the middle of near-drought conditions.
People have brown lawns all over, but you thought it was so important to have your patio clean enough to eat off, that you wasted all that water? The City should turn off your taps. Inconsiderate slobs like you make it harder for the rest of us. (And just how clean does concrete have to be, anyway?)
–Tom Trueman
Water bombers not jet bombers
Harper is more interested in bombing people in foreign lands than building water bombers to save Canadians from forest fires. We used to build the best water bombers in the world, we used to sell them around the world. Now we take them out of mothballs to try to contain the inferno around us and Harper harps on about jet bombers for his war, paid with our taxes.
–JC McElroy
Cranky smoker fumes
RE: Vancouver Shakedown, July 16, 2015
Please tell Grant Lawrence to go fuck himself. I am not burning down the province with my cigarette flicking. The vast majority of wildfires are caused by lightning. Why do you employ such an imbecile? Insulting your readers is the lowest form of journalism.
–Steven Ledoux
Noise annoys
RE: “Death to the Leaf Blower!”, Rant/Rave, July 16, 2015
The fireworks are coming soon! You better run and hide! Better yet, move to Mission or a care home.
–You’re still not too old
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