Idiots

So we're in a country with the least safe roads in the world, lets get 2 wheelers. Idiot tourists. Today I saw a guy climb back onto his scooter with no skin on his forearm... nice. I'm sure that's going to sting a lot and for a long time. Just like the other idiot westerner, who apparently lives in Gokarna, can't drive a scooter to save her life, well her elbow and leg at least. Attempted an idiotic overtake of a bus on the inside of the bend, pure slow motion inevitability. Luckily neither of these two Darwin award candidates banged their unhelmeted heads. I have heard of a frightening sight in Hampi, a poor tourist who can't leave the country because her brain has swelled and would react to a change in pressure. The face is apparently quite a sight. Still, I'm sure she will find it really easy to explain to her insurance company how going around without a helmet isn't reckless behaviour whatever the wording of her policy. Then there are the idiot parents, endangering their small children, today one family where one of the two children had a helmet (favouritism?) and another where the two children wore cycle helmets... nice. Even ignoring the helmets the children would have been too small legally anyway by UK standards (not reaching the footrests) ... oh and there were 3 on a bike. Then there are the idiots riding too fast, which is shocking. In India in contrast you notice that everybody drives slowly, there is a reason. Here when a child steps out in front of a car from behind an obstruction, it is the drivers fault, it is always the drivers fault. Not that I won't soon be playing the same game... but I hope just slightly less stupidly