Judging the magistrate
WHEN will the local magistrate start to deter rather than encourage crime? Common sense should prevail eventually.
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If not, let someone else do the job!
Jason Crips
Wagga
History’s timely lesson
I KNOW the following is going to stir a hornet’s nest and will never happen, however I believe it is food for thought.
With all the crime that is taking place in Wagga, I wonder what amount of crime happened in the late 60s and early 70s, when all stores closed at 12pm Saturday
In those days, families were a unit, where respect was taught and family participation was very important.
We also got discipline if we got ourselves into serious trouble
I believe the introduction of weekend trade has seen the family values go out the window and respect has been lost. I realise a lot of the crime is drug-related, however I ask you to think back when stores did close on a Saturday, was there the crime we see today? I think not.
When I had my business, I closed my store on a Sunday, as to me family values were more important than greed. There is an old saying but very true, what you spend on a Sunday you cant spend on a Monday
The police are doing a fantastic job, however the law needs to be tightened and offenders dealt with harshly.
Bill Smith
Cootamundra
Safety should come first
WHILE I am a fan of the Gumi race, I ask the writer of the editorial “Gumi race threat” to look at the other side of his opinion,
He says “it seems individuals are no longer responsible for their own stupidity...” This works both ways.
Responsibility also rests with those setting the scene, whether this be a water event, the road or paddle pool. Sounds like the Gumi officials have done their safety checks so it should go ahead.
Insurance companies have to cover costs of injury or, god forbid, death so they need their criteria met if they are genuinely offering cover rather than promising the world and giving nothing.
A Wooden
Wagga
Blinkered view of rules
IN RELATION to the accidents occurring at the Bunnings driveway on the Dobney Avenue roundabout. This has always been a confusing intersection for many people, made worse by the addition of the driveway some years back.
However, I think the real crux of the problem is the ridiculous law stating you must indicate left out of a roundabout while travelling straight ahead. All of us that drive know only too well how many people get it wrong.
If a vehicle is waiting to exit Bunnings and another vehicle approaches from the south and indicates left as required but a little bit early, it's quite conceivable the waiting vehicle assumes the approaching vehicle is turning into Bunnings and therefore pulls out only to be t-boned.
The law requiring us to indicate upon exiting a roundabout is a clear case of nanny state over governance and does not work unless everyone does it correctly. And it certainly doesn't work on 95 per cent of Wagga’s roundabouts, as they are too small.
Jim Fagan
Wagga
A matter of semantics
DAVID Gilby, mate, while acknowledging your far superior grasp of the English language over mine, might I in all humility suggest that while the word "fair" may be open to suggestion by those who wish to see it, the word "all" says it all . Time to be "all" and get on with it.