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If you do live in and around New York City, you know that in the past few years crazy drivers have really multiplied. So I'm on an E island and Long Island Expressway, Northern southern state parkways. Almost inevitably, if you're going to drive for more than a half an hour, you're going to see people, people weaving in and out of traffic at very high rates of speed. This is actually a game they play. Now I think back when I was a kid in Levittown, there was a straightaway Stewart Avenue and the hot rodders, remember that Hot rodders used to drag race on the avenue and there were a lot of kids living around it. My father went nuts. And these are the guys in the leather jackets and they had the souped up 1950s early 60 cars and they would just race and you know, people got hurt. But I just remember my father just absolutely running out there, that kind of a thing. Well, it's back. There are actually clubs of idiots who all have cars and they play games about who can get someplace fastest, pick out a destination, Then they all start and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Well, the result is death. So since 2017, this is just in New York City confines, about 1200 people have been killed because of reckless driving. And the stats are very troubling. In 2023, about 3,000 motorists seriously injured in crashes. Now some of those are inevitable. You have all this car. We have more traffic here in New York than any police else in the country. But more and more of it is reckless driving. So what do you do? Well, number one, if you see somebody doing that, you should call 91 1. If you can do that without being unsafe and try to pick up the plate number, usually that's impossible, but you should report it. Call it in. Number two, if the police catch people doing that, I mean really driving recklessly, immediate suspension of license. And that's got to be a new law. Your license is suspended pending the investigation. So you're out. You can't get in a car. You violate that law, you get back in your car, then the state seizes the vehicle. That'd stop it almost immediately because these people live to drive. And you take away their right to drive and their automobile, forget it. And then if there's scoff law continue, then you go to criminal court. So for every problem there is a solution. The problem in New York state is there's no solution to the stupid legislator. I mean these people up there in Albany, they are just as dumb as I have ever seen local government anywhere. And I've been all over the country. I've been to every state. And in sophisticated New York, we have the dumbest legislature I have ever seen, with the possible exception of California, because they don't care. And that's dumb. So you want to solve the problem. If a police officer pulls you over for reckless driving, you immediately have your license suspended pending the investigation. You get back in the car with a suspended license, the vehicle you are in is seized. That solves the problem. And, you know, my late father, looking down, I hope from heaven, is saying, you know, my son is right. That's the way to do it. Because we got to protect innocent people. You know, these people. It just makes me crazy about road rage. You know, I don't get involved with that kind of stuff. I see somebody who's dangerous, I try to get their license plate. I do, but I don't engage because people could have a gun. A lot of people are very sick, and you know that. Everybody knows it. In an area of 16 million people in the New York City metropolitan area, you're going to have more than a million people who are just absolutely mentally ill.