Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey is a funny ting when police a hurry people fe run ova de speed limit.

The roadwork that is happening on Mona Road has been a real pain in the ... you know where (not like those guys, pain, Jackass must say immediately, OK? OK). Yeah man, the traffic from Papine coming down Hope Road has been so horrible that it makes walking seem like a wonderful option.

So the authorities have done what they should, send out the police to regulate the traffic, thereby making the stop lights redundant. Fine. But there is something that the police do when they are moving that stubborn traffic along. They hurry along the drivers, making some extreme gesticulations that mean one thing - hurry up!

Fine, we all want the traffic to move, but Jackass has noticed one thing that many people might not have in their glee to make their way out of the worst of the traffic jam. The police actually want the drivers to go over the speed limit. Yup, the speed limit in every built-up area in Jamaica is 30 miles per hour or 50 kilometres per hour - which is pretty slow, of course - but here are the police not just encouraging drivers to break the law, but literally commanding them to.

Sounds like a minor thing, no true? But it is the minor things that make the big difference in the long run.

dutty driving

But then there are so many things that the police let go. Because on the same Hope Road stretch a couple days ago, Jackass was so sure that the police were going to deal with a taxi man's case. He was turning right off Hope Road and was in the middle of the intersection as he waited for the light to turn from red to green. So he was impeding traffic coming from the other side. A police car pulled up at the same red light and Jackass said yes, finally one of the dutty-driving, car-wrecking taxi driver gonna get it right in front of Jackass.

And what happened? The policeman was close to the taxi driver till the light changed and then just drove off down the road. Jackass could not believe it! That policeman is, in effect, telling the taxi man, Jackass and everybody who saw what happened, that it is OK to block an intersection and just sit there and do what you feel like.

Jackass has always maintained that the lawmen are a huge part of the problem with lawlessness in this country. Yeah, man. Every time a policeman turns a blind eye or gives a 'bligh', he is telling people that it is fine to break the law.

No country caa run so!

Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey wait till de roadwork done an see how de same police whe a hurry up people ago pitch pon Hope Road a look fe people whe a go ova de speed limit an run big ticket pon dem. Eediat ting dat!