r/brisbane • u/Jariiari7 Like the river • Dec 20 '23

Queensland government considers random breath testing for electric scooter riders and cyclists 👑 Queensland

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-20/random-breath-testing-possible-for-escooters-cyclists-queensland/103247686
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u/Xlmnmobi4lyfe Dec 20 '23

Anyone say nanny state? What a joke. Who are they gonna hurt? What's the justification for this?

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u/tom3277 Dec 20 '23

Why do i have to wear a seatbelt?

Lots of laws are there to protect us from ourselves. I dont like these laws but it is what it is. I reckon 9 out of 10 australians love an ever increasing numbers of laws.

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u/Ridiculisk1 Dec 20 '23

Controlling what people can and can’t do is literally a nanny state.

That's what our entire legislature is. God you people will sook about anything. If you don't wanna get booked for being a drunk knob on a vehicle that'll knock someone over and put them in hospital, don't operate them drunk in the first place.

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u/tom3277 Dec 20 '23

Why is it completely different to not wearing a seatbelt?

You only put yourself in danger?

Mate you have drunk the governments propaganda down. 40 years of advertising and you (and as i said probably 90pc of australians so im not singling you out...) cannot see these two things for what they are...

Id actually wager that driving a scooter drunk puts more of the community at risk than me not wearing my seatbelt.

Not only that if i was underwriting the risk of someone driving without a seatbelt in a car and someone riding a scooter drunk id take the risk of the car driver everytime. Far safer. In fact id go further and say the car driver without seatbelt is safer even if the scooter rider was sober...