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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Rose Dias writes: > > Many youngsters come to church riding bikes or even > driving cars, being under age to possess a licence > to do so. At one stage it crossed my mind to ask > the Road Transport officials to conduct a check > around the church on a Sunday, but this move could > have been viewed from the communal angle by others, > hence I refrained from doing so. > > On my part, I advise the youngsters, and in the > first case that I came across ( a 10 year old > neighbour ), I spoke to the parents, but instead of > stopping the boy, they encouraged him to take the > bike. Now 19, he is the one who drops the mother to > work and collects her everyday. I suppose, she was > grooming him for this, all these years. > > Mario replies: > Rose, In a recent post Martinho de Souza had an excellent suggestion, "Perhaps road carnage in Goa can be reduced if the Clergy is roped in to speak out against careless driving in Goa. If they join the campaign, priests, nuns, schoolteachers, lecturers and professors might play a major part in reducing road accidents which cause death and injury in Goa." > Parents who are deliberately allowing their underage children to drive motorized vehicles are part of the problem and neither they nor their youngsters are likely to respond to you. > Perhaps with the help of activists like Valmiki Faleiro and Melinda Powell or others in your area, you can approach your Parish Priest and ask him to speak out about this tragic situation from the pulpit and privately as well. > Also, regardless of the reaction, I strongly suggest you follow through on your idea of informing the Road Transport department to do a check around your church on Sunday. You may be saving someone's life, and it may be an innocent pedestrian or by-stander, not necessarily the driver's. > _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)