Infantile pranks waiting for a tragedy

Updated August 17 2017 - 4:52pm, first published 3:42pm

Few problems on our roads can seem as frustrating and as irresolvable as the seemingly perpetual stupidity known as hooning on country roads and in regional towns. The difficulty in solving the problem lies in it being a behavioural issue practised by people who are so dumb they rarely think about their behaviour or its consequences. Threats of punitive justice barley register with such bovine intelligence while the concept of safety to other road users or even themselves is such a faint flicker in the cavernous emptiness of their cognitive capacity, it would almost take a miracle for it to shine into the light of day and change how they act.

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