Drivers must stop for school
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buses with flashing lights What will it take for people to understand that when a school bus is stopped, with red lights flashing and flashing
Drivers must stop for school
buses with flashing lights
What will it take for people to understand that when a school bus is stopped, with red lights flashing and flashing STOP sign extended, you have to stop. As a school bus driver, every day there is at least one vehicle that runs past my extended, flashing STOP sign. Is it going to take one of the children getting hit and injured to get this point across?
I have given the Hawaii Police Department my stops and times I’ll be at each stop and have asked them to come sit and watch. It upsets me that people are in such a hurry that they can’t respect the law and stop. It could be their child that gets injured.
Hank Davis
Kailua-Kona
Kudos to the protest leadership
I would like to commend the Mauna Kea protester/protector leadership. In the short time they have been on the mountain they have out-thought and out-maneuvered the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Police Department, state Attorney General’s office and the governor.
A few weeks ago, the protester/protector leadership got the leader of the DLNR, then present on the mountain, to apologize to them for “doing his job.” I’m glad the leadership could get this person to acknowledge he had chosen the wrong career path.
Today, I read that on June 24, the protester/protector leadership stopped an HPD convoy consisting of a police captain and 50 officers from proceeding up the mountain until the leadership got all the officers’ names and badge numbers. This prevented all of the officers from getting to their assigned duty stations up the mountain for about an hour. The command presence of the leadership overwhelmed the police captain who lost control of the situation. The result of this captain’s loss of control resulted in personnel complaints against a quarter of the officers he “led” up the mountain.
I’m sure volunteers for the next mission up the mountain will be hard to find. Again, congratulations to the protester/protector leadership, you have now demoralized our entire police force, as well as the DLNR officers.
Maybe next time the protester/protector leadership should bring a camera and photograph the officers sort of like a police line up. Maybe bring some ink and paper to fingerprint the officers. Also have the officers bring their personnel file so the leadership can screen the officers before letting them up the mountain. The officers who aren’t allowed up could be provided with brooms and they could do a general cleanup of the illegal campsite, maybe even help paint protest signs. Great for community relationship building.
As for the state government, what can I say. These beloved officials have passed emergency laws that managed to keep all of the state’s recreational users, hunters and local business, as well as the tourists off of the mountain while allowing only the protester/protectors full access and camping rights.
Well done. I hope the protest/protector leader runs for office, he seems to be the only person who knows what he is doing.
Taky Tzimeas
Kailua-Kona
