Prime Time tonight is focusing on drift netting and the CARNAGE on our ROADS.

“why is breath testing not mandatory at the scene of an accident” Miriam O’Callaghan asked in the preview.

Is this a joke I wonder. Is the punchline “Eh, because you can’t breath test a pulverised corpse”?

In bad taste perhaps, but, in the case of young, immature, speedy gonzales male drivers who are reckless and feckless and killed as a result of THEIR antics and THEIR choices, what use is breath testing?

That said, if others are involved, be it as passengers or with another car involved rather than a single driver accident, then, the driver(s) should of course be tested (blood testing would be useful) and whether they survive or not, their blood alcohol levels should be recorded and made public and published.

Is it time for papers to have a road accidents column with blood alcohol levels of persons involved in car crashes? We publish the names of tax evaders. Tax evasion doesn’t kill, but a name and shame approach is taken.  We publish names of those who don’t have TV licenses!!! Breath and blood tests should be mandatory. Publish the information!

Oh, I am getting so sick of NTL. You cancel a service that was unreliable and never worked and they continue to bill you for it. Do their cancellations department not talk to their billing department? The cancellations department that has to call you back, and you are lucky if indeed you get a phone call from them. Which indeed I did and they agreed to cancel our broadband subscription.
What sort of IDIOTS are running/working in this company? In the SBP last week, was an article about UPC and their take over of NTL and Chorus and the fact that they knew there were customer service issues that need resolving.

There are more than customer service issues in that company. They also have huge billing issues. They also have huge competence issues. This UPC man was waxing lyrical about triple play and how they want to position themselves. NTL would have to pay me before I ever again opt for anything other than a basic television package from them. It seems to be the only thing they are competent in dealing with. That is probably because it is something they inherited. Is it really so difficult to get integrated billing systems? How come other companies can get it right when you change your service?

Tomorrow, once again, I will have to ring to talk to someone in billing, wasting my time and energy and patience. Mind you, they will probably refuse to deal with me, because it is not my name on the bill. Which is ironic really, because back when we signed up for our package, they allowed me to sign up in another person’s name. A man’s name at that. I obviously wasn’t the man in whose name I was setting up the account. But they didn’t care. That’s the thing about NTL, they are happy to allow you to do things like sign up an account in someone else’s name.

NTL. The home of incompetence.