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Let’s get political. Earlier there was an accident at the junction just outside of my house, consisting of a motorcycle, a van and three people. Let’s try to re-enact the scenario. Here we have a T junction, coming from the right of the T junction is a TZM (reasonably large bike) at 120KM/h with two people riding it. from the south of the junction is a junk van which probably needs the driver to stick his foot out and drag it on the road to slow down. Van thinks it’s safe, bike pushes his luck. The result? the TZM is now the size of my refrigerator (trust me, you do not want to know how big is it). So I didn’t witness the event happening, but I did hear a loud firecracker thump on my way down as I was heading out then. I assumed then that my glucose-hyperactive neighbour was playing with some fireworks but then I noticed a lot of shouting so I went out. First thing that ran through my mind? Not another accident. This may just be the 9928472363rd accident at this junction because of it’s unique slope that blinds the driver from oncoming traffic (from east side). So yeah, rider banged on the van, made a pretty little mark on the door and the passanger flew further like debris and both suffered heavy injuries. So what to do what to do? I saw and heard at least 4 people calling for assitance for an ambulance or police patrol car, including my dad which was maybe 5 minutes later. Now mind you, while we’re recreating this vague scene, the kids on the road are dying. So somehow the crowd decides for the two that someone’s gotta take them to the med centre for treatment, A.S.A.P. Luckily for us, there’s lots of volunteers in Shah Alam for this situation (don’t even bother setting up a cleaning campaign) so they were rushed to the hospital maybe after 15 minutes of lying down on the road, one unconcious.
Wanna know what’s the fun part? We finally see blue sirens just after they got zoomed off. Oh yes we keep that "they’ll only arrive after all the shit’s cleaned up" principe well in good ole’ Malaysia. It’s bad enough they missed the show, this police officer steps out of the car with a frickin’ machine gun hung by his shoulder. WTF were they smoking?! We said an accident occured, not a bank robbery! I mean seriously, that’s some chronic shit which I need to study. Yes he’s smart alright, at least he.. oops nope he didn’t take a picture of the crime scene. Yessire, thee’s of no use here. So what? They just moved the expensive paperweight to the side of the road, took some notes for their homework assignments and went off. and if you thought that was hilarious, 5 minutes later an ambulance arrived! Now that made me LOL!
On a more serious tone, this sucks. Let me tell you a little story about how accidents were handled back when I was in the states. Some soccer mom drives into a divider, no one’s hurt but 3 minutes later an ambulance, fire engine and two patrol cars came. It’s no wonder there’s no peds that help these people out, by the time they’re there the cops are already wheeling the car off the road! I gotta hand it to these people, it gets to a point so surprising that I feel that maybe, just maybe they’re hiring too many people down at the sheriff’s office. If Malaysia had this level of excellency in they policing and medical sector, I think we’d actually at least be deemed a second world country by now.
Okay lah, so you can’t get the police and ambulance to come earlier than 30 minutes after the call (or your money’s bagged), the least that the government could do is add a bloody traffic light to this junction. But noooo, look who had to be the head of state, the don of bribes (no names required, it comes naturally). Can you believe that they gave this mingy excuse of "there’s another traffic light just ahead, and it’s too near" when the stretch of road from the previous light to the next one is close to 2 kilometres? Either he hasn’t been to Singapore before, or he’s out of his mind smoking all that pot! What he can’t even sacrifice 1/16th of an acre of that 50 billion dollar useless landscaping for a damn traffic light that can save lives? Well hey, you know something, maybe you really should consider putting a traffic light for us as you’d probably get some interest out of it anyway!
WTF is effing wrong with this state? It decorates one damn roundabout to look like the king lives inside it like twice a month just for the sake of making the first appearance of this city look good. But hey, it’s not like people don’t realize the potholes right after the roundabout right? That’s after any/every turning, mind you. All they need to do, is cut down on the bullshit with the roundabout and start looking at the damned roads these dumb nuts at maxis are digging all day long and doing an RM50 job at patching it back up. Yes, it’s that damn simple! No voodoo or magic spells here, folks, just common sense. A dude on a cub can easily lose his tyre’s to one of these, and they’re not doing a thing about it. Goes to show how crappy the unseen facts of a city are, plus the party that governs this poor city with potholes and not to mention assholes.
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