i have to say it is not my story,but it was taken from our local paper and wondered what i would have done in the same situation..
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While driving to work along clive sullivan way,i was confronted by a motorcycle parked at the side of the road...it was head-on to the traffic,and hidden behind it was a figure in black leather pointing what appeared to be a gun at traffic.There was no warnings displayed.Having taught anti-anbush procedures to military drivers for many years,my immediate reaction was to drive into the bike and use it to kill the person with the gun,but i was prevented from doing so by traffic on the near side lane.This was very fortunate because as i passed at 40mph ,i realised the figure was a traffic enforcement officer pointing a speed camera.This brings up several saftey points: The officer was not making himself plainly visible,which contravenes safety guidelines ,he was putting other road users and pedestrians in danger by acting in such a suspicious manner and he was contravening the health and saftey at work act by putting himself in obvious danger: Given the large number of military drivers on the roads,and given the current terrorist climate,the officer and his bosses have only themselves to blame if someone does take precipitous action in the way i describe.Given that anti-terrorist officers can apparently get away with shooting innocent civilians ,i would also expect any such defensive action to go unpunished by the courts....
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While driving to work along clive sullivan way,i was confronted by a motorcycle parked at the side of the road...it was head-on to the traffic,and hidden behind it was a figure in black leather pointing what appeared to be a gun at traffic.There was no warnings displayed.Having taught anti-anbush procedures to military drivers for many years,my immediate reaction was to drive into the bike and use it to kill the person with the gun,but i was prevented from doing so by traffic on the near side lane.This was very fortunate because as i passed at 40mph ,i realised the figure was a traffic enforcement officer pointing a speed camera.This brings up several saftey points: The officer was not making himself plainly visible,which contravenes safety guidelines ,he was putting other road users and pedestrians in danger by acting in such a suspicious manner and he was contravening the health and saftey at work act by putting himself in obvious danger: Given the large number of military drivers on the roads,and given the current terrorist climate,the officer and his bosses have only themselves to blame if someone does take precipitous action in the way i describe.Given that anti-terrorist officers can apparently get away with shooting innocent civilians ,i would also expect any such defensive action to go unpunished by the courts....
