Thursday, August 27, 2009

Don't hit me in St. Louis...

In Missouri, if you hit a road construction worker, you must pay a $10,000 fine and you lose your driver's license. There are signs everywhere telling us.

So there you go, Missouri road construction worker, you now know what your safety is worth to the state.

Was this a problem before? People had trouble weighing the plusses and minuses of clipping someone paving the interstate?

"Hey Bill, better be more careful to not hit that guy in the orange vest...you might have to pay a fine!"

"Oh, yeah Charlie, I'd hate to lose that cash."

Isn't just not hitting someone enough of a deterrent?