Why...

[SPman]

"The really important thing is that this ghastly accident is a means of stepping up safety and respect given to cyclists.

Respect is earned, not demanded or legislated for!

Tit!

A stop sign is a demand to stop. Then you can proceed when the way ahead is clear.
If the retard at the wheel had trouble comprehending this, why does she have a licence and how does that translate to a demand for lower speed limits?

No amount of legislation can stop people being fuckwits on the road (as is proven every day, here on KB)

[Beemer]

never mind that - is there a law somewhere that allows burning at the stake for journalists who use a verb instead of a noun in their headlines??

Journalists virtually NEVER write their own headlines, that is the job of the sub. It's a common misconception that EVERY mistake in the paper is the fault of the journalist when often it is not.

Case in point - while working on a newspaper last month I wrote a story about a primary school teacher winning a science scholarship. I specifically asked him if the scholarships were restricted to science teachers and he said no. However the sub or editor must have thought it was, so when the story appeared in print it said "primary science teachers" and I certainly hadn't put that in.

I also wrote a feature on the car show that was in Levin yesterday - and wondered why you got half-way through and it didn't make sense. The layout people had transposed two columns so you got "...The car has a supercharged Hemi engine and uses an" followed by "515 kph..." and at the end of the next column it reads "...The lottery closes at the end of" followed by "incredible amount of fuel..."

So although my name was on the top of both articles, the mistakes were not made by me and I had no control over them. I also had no control over the headlines that appeared on the articles either.