#10: A very angry rant towards [irresponsible] Malaysian Drivers

I will try to refrain from the usage of any foul language although the anger that’s built-up throughout the months are really fuming inside.

Today would be probably  the 8th time I nearly got run over by a car. The car was merely a centimeter close to hitting me. I had to jump backwards, but did it stop? No. IT SPED EVEN FASTER. I was left angry, mortified, and yes, VERY ANGRY.

But oh, mind you,  I wasn’t in wrong. I was merely crossing the zebra crossing. And as it said, I had exactly 24 seconds left to cross. By the time I reached the otherside, it would merely take 10 seconds. In other words, the car was speeding through when it was a RED LIGHT.

Oh, jolly ho. Here comes my favorite part: The part where I start slaughtering everything at fault here because clearly, I’m not the ONLY good law-abiding citizen and the ONLY resident of the PJS9 community who uses the zebra-crossing, who has NOT encountered this type of thing before. Of course, majority will let it slide.

I DON’T.

So, let me give you a brief history on the zebra crossing.

For a year I have lived here as a student in a college nearby. To get to college, I have to cross the roads. Back then, there wasn’t any zebra-crossing made at all. No traffic lights. No nothing done about it. So, most of us were forced to cross the road ala Mission Impossible style. I don’t blame the cars back then: We were in the wrong back then.

Earlier this year, they have built a traffic light and made a proper zebra crossing for the citizens to use to cross to the other side.

WHICH CLEARLY MEANS, YOU BUNCH OF NEGLIGENT COLOR-BLIND NINCOMPOOPS, THAT WHEN THE TRAFFIC LIGHT TURNS RED, YOU STOP.

Of course, these bunch of trash drivers just drive over as if it’s roads owned by their ancestors. Be they motorcycles (Yes, there are a lot), trucks, taxis (Yes, you lots are really irresponsible), or cars, they just drive over as if EVERYTHING WAS ALWAYS IN A GREEN LIGHT.

What about the citizens?
We have to watch the road, even when it’s red light for them, so that they won’t run us over.

Which goes to say this in the most simplest form:

WHY ON EARTH WAS THE ZEBRA CROSSING AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS BUILT ANYWAY IF IT CANNOT SERVE ITS PURPOSE TO GUIDE TRAFFIC?!

I don’t know a lot of laws, but I know these much during driving school, as they have made this:

1. RED means STOP. You do NOT drive over a RED LIGHT.

2. If there is a pedestrian on the road crossing, even if he’s on the wrong, you should slow down. Because eventually, if you hit the pedestrian, you’re in THE WRONG instead.

Now, clearly, most drivers will neglect those two facts for, hmm… I don’t know, because they LACK COMMON SENSE IN THEIR BRAINS.
ANY TOM, DICK AND HARRY WILL KNOW THAT.
You hit someone, you’re in the wrong. Unless it’s in the act of self-defense. But then again, we pedestrians are the defenseless one here.
You hit us, we go to hospital. If we live, we’ll sue you if we remember your car (Hit-and-run is a VERY SERIOUS CRIME, you idiots), which equals to police investigations and reports, which equals to we’ll sue you, which equals to YOU WILL LOSE 3 MONTHS WORTH OF YOUR SALARY (There goes 3 semesters of your kid’s college funds. Isn’t that wonderful?) If we die, we end up on papers. The public will hate you (even if it’s a hit-and-run, you know those words written on their opinions, editorials and newspaper is all directed to you. Don’t kid yourself that you can’t FEEL anything). The residents who let it slide will now come on paper giving their view and their at-last-prolonged complaints. You will end feeling guilty for the rest of your life, with blood-stained hands (and bumpers) to remember for the rest of your life. Oh, let’s not forget the photographs of us PUT on the newspaper to haunt you for the rest of your life, whether you’re awake or asleep.

Don’t you idiots find that a really fine consolation prize to own after hitting a pedestrian? I think so too.

Of course, I’m not to say that all motorists are really responsible for this.
In fact, who’s to say the POLICE are clean from this?

I remember a night in July, while I was crossing the road back to my house with a friend of mine, when a police car just drove over a red light.
I would understand if there was an emergency if the siren is on.
But here is a policecar, on an empty street, driving on 60mph, chasing NO ONE, driving through a red light, crossing before me. Just to make it to the Sunway police station.
And guess what followed behind the policecar?
You bet. A WHOLE-STRING OF MOTORISTS WHO THINK IT IS FINE TO DRIVE OVER THE RED LIGHT AS LONG AS THE POLICE AS DOING IT.
You know, police are suppose to be the protectors of the law and set a fine example to people.
Gee whiz, I wonder what kind of law they were protecting in the first place, since they can’t very well obey the simple STOP AT A RED LIGHT WHILE PEDESTRIANS ARE IN THE MIDST OF CROSSING THE ROAD and LED A BUNCH OF IDIOTIC SHEEP TO BELIEVE THAT THAT DRIVING OVER A RED LIGHT ON A ZEBRA CROSSING IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

Now, I am tired of all this. My hands are shaking in anger as we speak. I could have said so much more but that would just be my personal feelings.
I want to know why this college BANS nst.com.my because I can’t even access the site. Talk about writing an opinion.

So I have resorted to this. My own blog. Funny, this was suppose to be a happy blog but it ended up being angrier than before.

I am one of those citizens and residents who are TIRED of being bullied my motorists on the road, especially when we are in the right.
Starting soon, action will be taken. Number plates, photos of cars, description of drivers will be taken down.
For my public amusement, you may call this defamation, but I call it making you famous.
Because you people are one of those idiots who don’t care to stop at a red light and would rather speed through, hoping the pedestrian will give way to you.
But when you come across me next time, I’ll be sure to be the pedestrian that STANDS right in front of your car and GLARE RIGHT AT YOU while taking your superstar potrait for exhibition.
Because you know you were in the wrong. And you so surely deserved it.

There would have been other means to do it, but alas, as we have read from above, the authorities are also part of this, who’s to say if our report will ever reach the ears of the higher-ups since they don’t care about our lives that they were suppose to be PROTECTING in the first place. But I’m not talking about just PJS9 only, I’m talking on a whole where residents everywhere who feel the same sentiments as I do.

If this reprimand is heard, these things should follow act:

• A camera to catch idiots who speed through when pedestrians are crossing
• A higher fine for those who don’t listen to the law
• More responsible motorists
• More responsible authoritarians
• MORE LIVES SAVED

Once more, I am sure that most of you [irresponsible] Malaysian Drivers aren’t colorblind. If you are, you shouldn’t be driving in the first place.
Take a bus or taxi. Or at least know how to count. If my colorblind friend can drive and obey the law properly, why not YOU IDIOTS WHO ARE GIFTED WITH PERFECT EYESIGHT?

Now, do something about it.

OR I WILL