This is the reason why burglary rates go up during gibbous and full moons.
You appear to have confused burglary with lycanthropy.
Roundabouts are no solution -- I've nearly been hit head-on multiple times in roundabouts because people go the wrong way.
That must be due to unfamiliarity.
In the UK, which is roundabout heaven, you pretty much never have people going the wrong way. It's usually people pulling out and being rear-ended where they have misjudged the gap either through impatience, inexperience or alcohol.
I would like to see the evidence for that in the UK. I think most rapes take place indoors, and muggings in places where there is lighting, but its not very good.
I would imagine that most rapes take place indoors since they are by people the victim knows. It's the knife-wielding random maniac who attacks people outside.
If I want to be able to see mountains or the sea every day, I'll live somewhere near mountains or the sea.
Since we're not citing studies we remember, I remember one from just a few years ago that suggested the most cost-effective single measure we could take to save lives on our roads in the UK might be to fully light every mile of motorway (and possibly all high-speed roads, but I can't remember now whether the data supported going that far).
Makes sense, it is horrible when you leave a lit piece of motorway or proper A-road and go back to an unlit stretch. Travelling at high speed in the dark is simply not as safe as doing it during daylight or on lit roads. Your field of view with headlights is severely limited.
The town I live in has 25,000 people and NO street lights. It is wonderful!
Ankh-Morpork?
My wife and sister, in contrast, are now uncomfortable about things like getting a late train home and then walking back from the station in pitch black conditions..
Oh for fucks sake. What a bunch of cowards. If your too scared to be alive. Kill your self already. Being scared of the dark is something you grow out of when your 5. Does your wife need a night light? Do you have to check under the bed. How many alarms do you have. Chicken shit. Fact: it has *never* been safer at any other time in all history! EVER.
If you really think that a city (or even town) with no street lighting at all would be a better place, then you're in a tiny minority.
>Light pollution can reduce the quality of sleep
Only if you can't afford curtains. .
That is a truly pathetic attempt at rationalization.
Should the gov't be saving money by making people feel unsafe?
Should some whiny people be costing the rest of us taxpayers money because they are lame, paranoid bitches, afraid to take personal responsibility for their own safety, and who are very likely the same people responsible for disarming the majority of the populace and making it a real problem to defend ourselves?
No. They should not.
Fuck off. Children walking home at night were never armed, you utter imbecile. Also, most people in Britain don't think of the Wild West as a perfect society to emulate.
mil-spec plastic
"Yes, we know it costs 20 times as much, but it's in officially approved camouflage colours."
No serious techie uses 'cyber' in a sentence.
That is the term being used by politicians and the military, so (as with "hacker") techies will just have to get used to the popular usage.
Ah yes, the "courage" to attack without warning and then run away and hide.
It's only cowardly if the enemy or terrorists do it. If we do it, it's clever tactics.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.
