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A NEW ROAD SAFETY PROJECT in Canada aims to shock speeding drivers into slowing down by projecting an image of a child on the road in front of them.
The project is being – forgive the pun – road tested in Vancouver.
The image of a small girl chasing a pink ball is painted on the road an appears elongated to pedestrians. An optical illusion makes the image come to life for drivers, appearing 3D and lifelike to approaching vehicles.
The picture is being posted near a school in west Vancouver and will remain in place for just one week to draw attention to child pedestrians as kids return to school.
The campaign is being organised by safety advocacy group Preventable and the British Columbia Automobile Association, and aims to reduce the 27,000 preventable injuries sustained by British Columbia residents in western Canada.
The BCAA says that school zones can be one of the most dangerous places for children, and warns parents that the biggest risk to child pedestrians is from parents who make u-turns and let their children out of the car into oncoming traffic.
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That is one of the most horrific things I’ve ever read. What is wrong with these people?
Aaaah unbridled xenophobia! How you must miss the 1930s in Germany!
Give it a rest ya nazi. You’re boring.
@Lasair journal readers are intelligent enough to understand that u r putting blanket cover to 1.2 billion people with one single instance. I have worked with NGOs in many parts of South East Asia and these instances are unusual even for local people and that’s why they are reported.
What lasir is saying is true in many ways. There are several instances of indian fathers in the UK killing their daughters for cultural reasons. Saying that its a problem doesn’t make you a racist or nazi. Get a life you people!!
“Aryan Light” (Lasair) what’s with turning St Brigid’s Cross into a Swastika?
You know her dad was from Spain right?
he has a point though , what about that Nigerian woman who abused her child and because that was her culture she didn’t see anything wrong in it ?
But Stephen.. he is a Nazi.
Lasair Aireáinnach, I think you would be better off over at the Daily Mail.
“Aryan Light”…. fun fact for you..
The Swastika originated in India. Alexander The Great brought it back from his travels.
Very multicultural of you to display an Indian symbol…
This article Suzie is about two women who have been sentenced to be raped and humiliated for three reasons.
(1) The actions of the brother who they are related to.
(2) Their membership of a caste or group.
(3) Their gender.
What you are postulating is that we should hold all Nigerians responsible for the actions of this woman and that we should group all Nigerians as members of her group by their association with her and her country. In effect what you are doing is saying that we should apply points (1) and (2) our society. basically you’re the Jat council and Nigerians are your Dalit women,
Love the way that the people who are trying to end any form of discussion or debate are accusing others of being Nazi fascists.
Irony meter is blown off the charts on the journal with regularity.
exactly Stephen !
but..Stephen, if you murder someone in the UK, you are convicted and sentenced. In this more than bizarre case, his two sisters have been sentenced to rape, for something he did ( or did not do). So just for me, enlighten me as to how ever, ever, ever you think thats an ok thing to do. And for a father to saction it?? Words fail.
You don’t have to go as far as India or Nigeria to find low-lifes.
Look at other article this evening about man with Irish accent assaulting 80yr old woman in London.
Cop on Stephen. Yes it happens. It does not threaten society as we know it in the way he makes out it will.
“Aryan Light”… they found one of your trains in Poland!
PS The swastika is a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Prevalent across Asia and the Middle East. So multicultural.
There is nothing to discuss about Laisir’s comment. The only thing you can take from it is that he / she is a braindead Nazi idiot.
Lasair- watch this video and you start to understand how much of a racist s(¥m you are :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k7nU2a23m9o
If you’re going to pull off this “I’m just a regular guy who has ‘genuine concerns’ about immigration” act Stevo, then you have to refrain from complaining when the guy with the Swastika is called a Nazi.
Have you any idea of how many Irish children are abused? Any concept of the physical and sexual abuse doled out to the disabled in this country as well? For goodness sake cop on.
Sadly Lasair is correct.
Also the St. Brigid’s cross would be a variant of the sun wheel symbol, same as the Swastika.
Diarmuid,
The swastika is a beautiful symbol that has been used by almost every culture in the world. Alexander the Great did not bring it back from the east, it was already here for millenia before his time – and it is one of, if not the oldest symbol in human history.
The reason that Hitler thought he could use it was because of the relatively recent divergence of the Indo-European (Aryan) peoples. We were once all one, but he didn’t research that far into it; instead using Aryan as a euphemism for Germanic/Nordic. We, the Gaelic Irish, are very closely related to people as far as India, which is where our ancestors cousins migrated from Central Asia. There, they established the religions you mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Origin_hypotheses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_migrations
For good measure, I don’t agree with boneheads who try to make our shared history exclusive, including Hitler. I’m proud of our common heritage nonetheless.
Yeah, multicultural symbol highjacked by meatheads like “Aryan Light” above.
Go back far enough and we all come from Africa, the cradle of civilisation!
what u guys are talking about? read the article again the story is in last two paragraphs!!
@Lasair
So does that mean that the widespread sexual abuse and rape of children by the clergy, appeasingly accepted and willingly ignored by the elected government and large parts of the society is a defining part of Irish culture and society?
Or sending unmarried pregnant women into slavery and took the kids away from them?
Or slaughtering each other for sectarian reasons ?
Or having a great tradition of corruption and cronyism?
@Stephen
Not too long ago people were slaughtering each other because of sectarianism on this very island, corruption and cronyism are the main means of Irish politics for decades, thousands of children raped and abused by the church, ignored by politicians and society, women dragged into slavery and robbed of their children by government and clergy…
A truly superior culture and society….
Jenni, they weren’t sentenced by the state just a village religious panel
Jenni, did stephen M or myself say that it was ok, where did you get that from ?
Godwin’s law !
Stephen, are you condoning a father killing/ having his daughter killed? what man in his right mind would do this? To his daughter, of all people. I dont care where you come from, it’s not right.
@Peter Slattery. No Peter,unfortunately there’s much more horrifying than above. Just recently, in India, two brothers beheaded their sister for stopping over-night with her cousin.
—”India: Muslim brothers behead teen sister, display her head as warning
–”Gul Hasan, 25, and his brother Nanhey, 20, spotted their sister Phool Jahan outside the house of their cousin on Monday afternoon. The girl had also spent the night at her cousin’s house. She had earlier expressed a desire to marry him. Her brothers had opposed the idea of marriage and warned her to stay away from their cousin.
Enraged that she had also spent the night there, they dragged her away and cut her head off with a chopper. Marching around the village with their sister’s head, the brothers said, “Dekho, hamne apni behen ko maar dala aur pyar karney ki yehi sazaa hoti hai” (This is what happens as punishment for having an affair.)—”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/india-muslim-brothers-behead-teen-sister-display-her-head-as-warning
The xenotrolls on here would have been welcome in London 150 years ago, when a common view was that the Irish were barbaric, sub-human, simpletons, incapable of governing themselves and deserving of famine as a means of population control.
Looking at you “Stephen”.
You’re an idiot.
ron , I don’t know how you got to all that from my comment , that is not where I was coming from at all .
Don’t fret Peter, many of them will be looking for asylum or refugee status here soon and we will have the “usual suspects” shouting about their civil rights and how their arrival here is a positive multicultural happening!!!
Phuck off Jeremiah.
And as usual The Journal cowardly and meek deletes my factual comment, and these gobshyte moronic hacks who call themselves “journalists” but who are merely hobby bloggers, would be the same types to read 1984 and be aghast thinking themselves set apart from the censorship in that society. Journal.ie, you are 1984, the small minded and petty mud scrabblers, the insignificant and ordinary.
Íurach
Actually it is not used by almost every culture in the world, the theory is and which is backed by these cultures legends and myths, is that it is found whereever Whites appeared on the planet. The native peoples adopting their signs and symbols and cultural icons and languages. This is the exact reason why the Germans adopted it, they saw it as reclaming what was intrinsically a White symbol, of course it is now being attributed with a false PC history and misappropriation.
Matt
The abuse of children by clergy was not widespread, it was 2-3% of the clergy, you should get your facts straight, although I suggest you get any facts to start with. And it was a few decades of our history, whereas what is happening in the above article is a part of that culture. Something that is far more prevalent and part of their narrative for a far longer time and far wider spread, once again, your anti-white hatred is revealed. You simply automatically attack white people and defend anything non-white. Censor this factual statement again, Orla, what a joke.
Matt
Yes Irish culture is inferior and Irish society meets together and approves of sentencing people to being raped. We also partake in female genital mutilation, you really are an anti-white hating muppet.
If it is a small minority with this perverted thinking , why is the government failing in dishing out punishment to these people.
Well said Stephen.
“Aryan Light”….
How about you put up a link to your far-right blog instead, post a couple of pictures of you and your buddies shaving eachothers’ heads and frog-marching around your apartment.
You can explain to the world why you think:
1) Ireland would be better if Hitler invaded us;
2) The Holocaust is a made-up conspiracy;
3) You love Nazi racial policy;
4) A multicultural, multiethnic swastika symbol used for millennia, is actually an “all-white” symbol because a weak little decrepit Austrian lad who engaged in incest decided it represented the Germanic people.
It will come out eventually that this was a Sharia court ruling, this part of India has a huge muslim population.
If this was about someone in Somalia / Saudi / Yemen there wouldn’t be half as many comments; but as we hold India to a higher standard, people jump on it. Terrible really but we shouldn’t be surprised, we have all heard many stories from Islamic courts and their treatment of women as objects, especially recently with ISIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jat_Muslim
Would you look at that, mostly in Western Uttar Pradesh, exactly where this village is located.
@laisar
No, not inferior just not superior either!
And no, we did not mutilate our girls, we just enslaved and tortured them when they were unmarried and pregnant and then we took their kids away to orphanages so they could be raped and abused by the clergy!
Your primitive White/Irish supremacy thing just doesn’t add up!
@laisir
Oh yes it was widespread and is was covered up by people like yourself!
Quite unusual though that a Neo Nazi bends down in front of the clergy and defends their actions.
Maybe you would have even joined in given the chance, you never know lots of perverts amongst your nazi friends…
The Nazis reversed the original symbol, using an inverted swastika as their hideous emblem.
@Stephen M. @Suzie Sunshine. Exactly again Stephen and from my experience the ones who call others racists and fascists/nazis are almost all ‘white-haters’ from the Islamo-fascist apologists side projecting their own race hatred and nazi ideology from their ‘deep heart’s core’.
Keep slogging away with the facts. They hate that too.
White people hate white people…
Riiiiiiiiiggggghhhhht…..
Dorothy, fact. Well done, not too many facts on here but I’m glad yours is.
Matt
The facts are, it was not widespread. It was 2-3% of the clergy, this is fact. You are labelling 97-98% of the clergy as being involved in paedophilia and that is just plain wrong.
You have called me a “neo-Nazi”, can you show how and where I am a neo-Nazi?
As for perverts, perverts seem to gravitate toward marxist and communist groups, like the 35 paedophile Labour councillors caught in Britain, or how about the fact that the muslim prohhet and holy man Mohammad, raped an 8yr old girl and this is seen as perfectly ok in Islam. I see you only attack White race and Christianity but defend sanctioned perversions from anything non-White.
Labour Harriet Harman (Known Zionist) campaigned tirelessly to get the age of consent abolished.
http://labour25.com/
Diarmuid
Who is Aryan Light? I’ll educate you on the Irish word for Aryan seeing as you seem a little stumped by it. It is “Airianach” or Aryan, a. & s. Airíoch ( m ). I don’t see either derivative used by anyone, are you talking to an imaginary friend, nothing wrong with that, unless they compel you to say or do bad things.
Can you show me where your imaginary friend said any of the things you mention.
As a matter of historical interest, the swastika as explained to you, was a symbol of the white race wherever they were to be found, it was adopted by the native peoples, who spoke of them in their myths and legends, all describe gods who were white, blue-eyed etc, you can think of the swastika as that races calling-card much as all people from the same clan, tribe, group, political party use a common identifying symbol. For example specific groups of marxists like to use the hammer and sickle, or the red star, that is their policital symbol, it marks them out and apart from other political persuasions. Don’t know if you will comprehend this concept.
Diarmuid, are you ok?
They didn’t invert it, you’ll find that swastikas facing both ways are found in Hindu/Buddhist culture. What they did do was tip it up on it’s corner.
A man commits a so called crime and 2 women are to be violated and raped by committee as HIS punishment. Aside from the barbarity of it, it makes no sense.
These women need to be protected from the council.
What the hell? Absolutely disgusting..
And they say animals are wild.makes you wonder
Quite disgusting alright. Who is elected to commit the rape? Is there a vote or is there a resident rapist available for such occasions? Unreal.
Are the all-male council going to take it upon themselves to carry out the punishment I wonder? That is seriously f*cked up,imagine that happening in this country
Of course they are… for the good of the village’s morals of course.
sick, sick,sick.
Do you remember the men of the town of Listowel filling through the court to shake the hand of the convicted rapist while giving the cold shoulder to his victim? Sick people exist in every country.
what? ….which planet or century are these creatures from?
sheer madness you cannot hide behind religion or custom barbaric in the extreme there’s nobody in their right mind could even consider such a thing
There are no words!
Rape and Kangaroo courts, absolutely disgusting – this could not be defended in any civilised society.
It’s defended here every day by SF IRA supporters.
Sunshine, I was only referring to civilised society.
It’s fcuking sick to hear the rape is approved as a part of punishment…..for heaven’s sake.
Surely this can be prevented from happening in this day and age. Something has to be done. Can every president of a country/leader etc get together and do something.
This is disturbing. Imagine the torment and horror these girls are now going through.
This is relatively mild compared to what happens in many countries and war zones around the world.
Just because this story in particular impinges on your values you care. Where were you before that?
This is the problem with liberals in Ireland, none of you give a shite about anything unless its brought forward in your media.
@Stephen
Well Steven, our wonderful and peaceful culture has not even heard of rape and sexual abuse, never ever!
The clergy abuse, ignored by society and sanctioned by politicians and judges alike does obviously not count and neither does the enslavement of thousands of young women….
@Matt – What does that have to do with what I am responding to above?
This guy here is talking about getting world leaders together because two young women are going to be raped as punishment for their brother.
Do you people have any idea what the world is like outside of your comfy latte sipping little fairyland where you get filled in each night on sky news? If you think that this particular case warrants a worldwide taskforce, then I shudder to think what you would look for if you opened your eyes to the atrocities that occur regularly.
But no…its fine. You lot can just sit here on the journal comment section for the rest of your days cirlcejerking with each other over how progressive you can sound on the bad articles. You people make me sick.
@Stephen
And you, an Irish man that traveled all the way over the Irish Sea to a far far away place called the UK, where you have nothing better to do than supporting the Tories, sworn enemies of Ireland and the Irish, YOU of all people wants to tell us what the world out there is like?
Ludicrous!
You don’t even live here anymore and YOU, an economic emigrant, wants to tell US how to run OUR country?
It has nothing to do with you anymore, you choose to leave!
Now off you go and have a pint with your Tory friends and let US here look after OUR country!
You are nothing but a plastic paddy!
“……sworn enemies of Ireland and the Irish”. Oh for Buddha’s sake, man, grow up and get a life. Ireland’s only real enemies are within it’s own border…and you know it.
The world is f#cked
Niall if this sick sort of thing is still going on today what was India like 100 years ago, 10 times more f#cked than it is today I presume?.
I had to read that title twice in disbelief. What the hell is going on in India? Mental.
India, supposed to be the next world “superpower”, a horrible kip of a country that provides cheap call centres staff and with these medieval so called cultures.
Gosh, I’m glad there are no Indians living in Ireland who hold the same cultural views. (?)
We vet everyone very closely who seeks residency in this country because we uphold tolerant Western values and are not prepared to allow anyone undermine that. (?)
If there were, of course we would never offer them full citizenship because their views are completely incompatible with our culture. (?)
What are you raving about????
@ Stephen
(?) is the new sarcasm font. There has been 2 Buzzfeed articles on it and The Huff Po had a really good editorial about what will happen to the internet. Broadsheet broke the story. (?)
‘Raving’ (?) phhww !
Rape in India is as common as brushing your teeth..as disgusting as this is I’m not surprised. Surely the federal government can out a stop to this??
Hi Orla, any chance you could include a link so we could sign the petition? I know there is a link to the amnesty website but that is not working, thanks
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/womanifesto_modi_loc/?pv=190&rc=fb it’s ok I found it but maybe include it in the article
fuc#;?g animals. an uncivilised nation.
Not a fair statement.
India has an uncivilised muslim minority, who – like muslim populations the world over – subjugate and mistreat women to a horrific degree. This can be seen from Indonesia right across to Morrocco in every centre of muslim population. The unfortunate thing is where muslims are not a majority, their behaviour is attributed to the majority of the population – as you have just done here.
Jats can be Hindu, Muslim or Sikh. I’ve spent a lot of time in India and many of the attitudes that Hindus hold are not all that different from those of Muslims. Women have very little freedom in either community.
Federated state of a billion people still crawling out of third world status. Not saying it is right but just context. Supreme Court itself is aware of the case and I am 100% sure this will not happen.
Now did anyone see that doc on the train station in Mumbai a few days ago? Wow.
It would make you proud to be Indian.
The couple have now reportedly surrendered after their family were allegedly tortured by police and members of the Jat community to avenge the brother’s actions.
But that was not considered sufficient retribution and the Khap panchayat, or village council – of which Jats are prominent figures – has decided on the punishment for the sisters.
India’s supreme court has described such bodies as ‘kangaroo courts’ and branded their decrees illegal, yet in some states they continue to operate and their punishments are often carried out, according to Amnesty International.
The elders of this village should be raped Fran style!
Sad world we live in
I’ve no doubt in my mind that everyone involved in this will burn eternally in hell.
It just goes to show its only the 21st century in the so called developed world. The developing world is still living in the dark ages. It really is scary, sickening stuff.
@shane
Of course it’s sickening but equally sickening things have happened in our country not too long ago.
Remember the sexual abuse of thousands of children by the clergy in our own country or the the enslavement of young women?
Sounds like Dark Ages to me too!
Matt, ya, like right awn and stuff!
Matt Beaumont. As you know child marriages are pandemic across the Muslim world because their prophet was in one himself.And Muslims are required to emulate the prophet because he was the ‘perfect man’.
–”AYATOLLAH CHILD MOLESTING
—” But the practice pedophilia is widely condemned in Christianity whereas ’tis allowed and even encouraged in Islam.
–”Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Supreme Leader of Iran, the Shia Grand Ayatollah, 1979-89 said in his official statements:
“A man can quench his sexual lusts with a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. Sodomizing the baby is halal (allowed by sharia). If the man penetrates and damages the child, then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister. It is better for a girl to marry when her menstruation starts, and at her husband’s house rather than her father’s home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”
Khomeini, “Tahrirolvasyleh” fourth volume, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990—”
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=670546459639199&id=191884884172028
This is far more primitive than I thought Indian laws to be, oh its a democratic state alright. unbelievable.
If you read to the end of the article you will see that this is against the laws of the democratic state.
It’s not Indian law. These village councils, their judgements and punishments are all illegal under Indian law. The problem is that in some places – by no means all – the law is not enforced.
Jesus, the barbarians.
It will come out eventually that this was a Sharia court ruling, this part of India has a huge muslim population.
If this was about someone in Somalia / Saudi / Yemen there wouldn’t be half as many comments; but as we hold India to a higher standard, people jump on it. Terrible really but we shouldn’t be surprised, we have all heard many stories from Islamic courts and their treatment of women as objects, especially recently with ISIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jat_Muslim
Mostly in Western Uttar Pradesh, exactly where this village is located.
I think you’ll find that Indian Hindus are not exactly too enlightened when it comes to attitudes about sexual equality either.
And we’ll have yet another HUUUUUUUUUUGE demonstration outside UHG and Leinster House about this carry on. Not.
Wait a minute is this right ?
They are sc-m bags they do it in the hole world it was on about them in the week in Ireland they should be put down like dogs they are the lowest in life
Eh?
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