I haven’t
done a Rob Ford love-fest post in a while and figured hey he’s done something
boneheaded again, let’s blog about! This just blew up on my Twitter through
news agencies, where Ford obviously has no concept of, “just stop talking.”
Photos
on Twitter surfaced of big bad Ford driving his Escalade, deeply engrossed in
the document that he was reading while on the Gardiner Expressway. Of course
the media went after him for this having already been in trouble for driving
past a streetcar when its doors were open as well as flipping off a woman and
her son who gestured at Ford to hang up his cell phone will driving downtown.
What was his response?
“I was
probably reading.” Thank you, Captain Obvious for that statement. That’s not
the worst part, it gets better. Ford then goes on to say that “it didn’t affect
his driving.” What? Flying down the highway paying the upmost attention to just
your driving while simultaneously looking through and reading a document doesn’t
affect your driving? I call bull. I’ve read documents; most people can’t even
stand on the TTC and read through documents without diverting a large portion
of attention. So is he spending that little effort actually reading through
important city documents or that little attention to driving and not
potentially killing someone?
Hold on
to your pants, because it gets EVEN better. Ford then goes on to tell the media
that he’s a busy guy and uses his morning commute to catch up on work and said
that “he still kept his eyes on the road.”
You're right Rob, your eyes are
totally on the road...
Welcome
to the real world, Mr. Ford. We’re in Toronto, everyone is busy, everyone has a
million and one things to do and everyone has a deadline to get them done by;
do not confuse that with giving people a cause for putting others lives at risk
for the completion of tasks. Growing up in northern Ontario, I’ve made the trek
on the highway from Timmins to Toronto many times, and now living here, I’ve
driven the highways around here. There is nothing more terrifying than driving
by someone engrossed in reading a book or the paper while driving 100 km/h +.
You are not Superman, you cannot react that quickly. This apathetic view on
thinking there is nothing wrong with commuting on the highway reading “because
your busy schedule,” is crap. You are needlessly putting the lives of people at
risk on the roads because you’re too damn lazy to care about other people.
There have been COUNTLESS studies down supporting that distracted driving
causes preventable injury and deaths with motor-vehicle accidents. If people can’t
carry on a simple conversation and not be distracted then how is someone
supposed to read a document and still keep his eyes on the road and have it not
affect his driving?
The
answer is simply, they can’t.
Rob
Ford, cut the apathetic attitude and directly protect the people of this city and
many other cities. Take responsibility for your actions and realize that you
can kill someone. YOU. Nobody else in that vehicle. You.
UPDATE:
For a full account of the conversation please see the CBC News story:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/08/14/rob-ford-chicago321.html
Story taken from the Canadian Press as published by the Vancouver Sun
Photo taken from @CTVToronto
Rob Ford is such a bonehead... lol
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