JACKASS SEY DI worl' no level. Jackass sey hardworking farma woman dead from pothole an' it come een like a no nutten.
There was a heartbreaking story in the Sunday Observer of May 23. Two women - Dorrett McGregor, in her 50s, and Lorrie Wallen, 70, were killed when the market truck they were traveling in on the way to the Coronation Market went over a precipice in St. Mary.
The truck hit a pothole, a tyre blew out, the engine stalled, the steering locked - and that was that.
The world is not level at all. Not at all.
First, what the hell is a pothole big enough to blow out a truck tyre doing in the road? In the ideal situation there should be no potholes at all, but there are some swimming pools parading as potholes on the roads that must have taken months and even years to get that deep. What were the relevant road agencies doing when the craters were developing? Could they not have filled them when they were in the process of becoming chasms in the road?
Legitimate enterprise
Second, the women were on their way to sell their produce. They had to wake up very early to get on that truck, not that they would have not been used to waking up early, as such is the farmer's life. But they were engaged in legitimate enterprise, in what is often mooted as the backbone of the nation's farming. And that is all the government could provide for them, in terms of road? A ditch for their vehicle to fall in so that they could die by the roadside?
But hey, cocaine dealers who drive big pick-ups across the country would not suffer that fate now, would they? After all, there are no ditches in New Kingston, where they go to park their vehicles and show off in front of the nightclubs.
Hmmm.
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And look at the ages of the women. In the 50s and 70. That is not how they deserved to die, not bleeding and crushed on the roadside in the pitch dark. At that age and stage, if one must go it should be surrounded by family and friends, feeling at peace, whatever pain there is dulled by the best medication the doctors can offer.
There is a thing called dignity in death which is of utmost importance. Quality of life is one thing, but how one dies, how one makes the transition from this world, is also vital to this life. The manner in which Dorrett McGregor and Lorrie Wallen died is simply not good enough at all.
And then, to add to the heartbreak of the story, there is the looting of the truck. Yes, even as the two women died and 17 were injured, looters sold the produce from the truck to persons passing by.
This is a new low, to make 'a likkle change' off the labour and lives of rural folk who, quite likely, are in no better financial state than those whose goods they were stealing.
And then they talk about 'man a suffara.'
Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey im woulda love if de tiefin goods offa de truck pisin dem %%%#$@@!!!.
