Man Widdicombe reports a new government campaign about ‘drug-driving’.
I can’t play back the video clip so I shall have to imagine it. Of course it is about wicked, evil recreational drugs, isn’t it?
Not about the millions and millions of people driving to and fro every day with their NHS-prescribed happy-pills in their pocket, the label clearly saying ‘if affected, do not drive or operate power machinery’?
Pah.
As you can’t see the video here are some screenshots I’ve taken from it .. .. .. ..
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The message is that the police can spot a drug driver from looking at their eyes .. .. .. in the dark .. .. .. in the rain .. .. through a dirty windscreen .. .. .. at a closing speed of at least 40mph .. .. .. ..
The chap in the pictures doesn’t look old enough to drive, quite frankly. And what ‘your eyes will give you away’ says to me is ‘your shades are cool, man!’
It’s actually quite entertaining, as propaganda goes. They all look like ET!
And pah indeed. I was on prescription pills last year that affected me quite adversely, and you should have seen the fuss at work because i couldn’t drive the forklift for a month. If i’d turned up on “illegal” pills i’d have been sent home without pay, not pressured to drive.
Quite.