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This is just crying out to be sent up:

http://www.brake.org.uk/index.php?p=121

Brake is also empowering local people to take action to improve road safety in their own communities through its Zak the Zebra hotline. By calling Zak the Zebra on 0800 068 7780 (open 8am-8pm Mon-Fri and 9am-4pm Sat) anyone can report roads in their area that are dangerous for children and be sent a Zak e-pack with information and resources to help them run local road safety campaigns. Brake will be compiling a dossier of dangerous roads to present to Downing Street, along with demands that the Government acts to ensure the safety of children who walk and cycle.

I wonder how they would respond to calls about dangerous speed cameras, traffic calming schemes and inappropriately low speed limits?

It's a freephone number, so you've got nothing to lose

Perhaps Sid the Snail or Timmy the Tortoise would be a more appropriate character - wildlife documentaries suggest zebras can shift a bit with a lion in pursuit

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Doesn't anyone else smell a rat. It's getting near election time. the scamerati have got money (ours) to burn siting new cameras, but public opinion is turning against them . How better to find new places - the old carrot - "lets safeguard our kids - if your against cameras you don't care for the safety of kids", by getting communities to suggest new piggy bsank sites.So that when the right hon gent /lady is asked why we have so many cameras , he/she can say "not us guv"-" there by public demand".

Am i being overly cynical or what?


How about "ozzie the ostrich" -head stuck in sand so that they can't/don't see motoring votes?

I think that this statement is most appropriate here, especially with the reference to safeguarding our childrens lives:


"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."















Hitler in Mein Kampf

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Possibly, but the stripes on the zebra are excellent camouflage. Perhaps we can't see the animal for the stripes.

I saw this on the local news. They ended by asking people to email in with a list of roads I think are dangerous for children.

I resisted the temptation to send a list starting with the A1 and working through the numbers........

Their was me thinking that roads were designed for cars, and pavements for children

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Steve

using the logic that roads are dangerous for children and therefore if an accident occurs it's the road users fault, I think I'll go for a few laps of the playing field and then blame the kids when they bash the front of me car to bits as I run them over.

I've heard railway lines are bad for kids too, perhaps we should inform Brake of "dangerous" railway lines...

Helen Lovejoy strikes again.

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what makes a zebra an even more poor choice is the recent childrens film "Racing Stripes" about a zebra who wants to go in horse races (and therefore go fast!)

Simon

YEP, but at least network rail have the sense to fence them off.
erhaps thats a good idea to stop accidents - put a fence down the pavement and only let people cross at authorised crossing places.

Police will actually deal with children playing on railway lines, strange how society is somehow accepting children on the road

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Steve

Yes this is very true. There is local to me a Lad (now a young man) who lost both legs playing on the local railway line with friends (I think they were jumping on the wagons and "riding" them, there are some fairly slow freight trains going uphill on the local line).

at the time he was in his early teens and all we heard in the paper was about "this tragedy" and how children should not play on the railways.

A few years later a drunk teenager walked out in front of a car and we hear nothing but "speeding motorist kills teenager" - the speeding bit came from a local resident who told the reporter "people drive too fast around here" - that was it as far as I could tell.

I do not know the outcome for the driver, or indeed who was to blame (the motorist was not DUI and did not leave the road according to a later report) but he reporting did seem very selective.

Actually it is an offence to trespass on the railway - fine quite high - now we find a new way for the scamerati to make even more money - employ peoplecams and fine pedestrians for "trespass" on the highway.