Before continuing, a conviction: if Martínez Rodríguez from Tunuyano was driving drunk and at high speed, he must be punished by Justice. Obscurity does not exempt him from such criminal responsibility. What’s more, the fact that the area has been a den of wolves, as it has been for many nights now, must have been a sign for him that he should drive with greater caution.
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The Ecosport that the Tunuyanino drove.
However, I want to expand the reasoning and tie it to an old security saying. The occasion makes the thief. And in this way I also refer to the lack of public lighting in several departments of Mendoza, which facilitates criminal activity.
To whom it may concern, local and national officials, it should dawn on them that a neighborhood or a block without electricity means danger for citizens who go to school, who sleep at night, who keep their cars… and so on, many examples. further.
If crime has no qualms about attacking in broad daylight, imagine how much it can happen – and does happen – in areas without public light.
A concrete example: for months, after the furious Zonda in October, in Las Heras there was a lack of electricity in busy areas such as Boulogne Sur Mer streets – just crossing the border with the City – and the Cementista II and Jardín Los Andes neighborhoods.
Thus, the jets did their thing and took away water and gas meters and even took the opportunity to walk on the roofs, well into the early morning.
Road safety also has to do with public lighting, as well as the closure of vacant lots. Or in those dens of wolves can a pedestrian be distinguished from an animal or from a street opened wide by works in progress?
Some municipalities accumulate neighborhood complaints due to lack of public lighting and few resolve this lack. Some are justified in the crisis, in the There is no money. Others do it in the short or medium term.
They say the night is dangerous. And in the dark, without a doubt, much more.
