The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Dropping a dime on Granny
I see old people.

The Senate gallery this morning is filled with representatives of Utah's vintage citizens, many sporting AARP buttons. They are here to watch Sen. Allen Christensen argue for a law to allow folks to anonymously rat out their eldely loved ones.

Christensen, who got hammered by the bluehairs last year on this bill, wants a process to get incompetent elderly drivers off the road.

"Everyone I talk to has an example of this — someone they know who shouldn't be driving," a nervous Christensen said, recounting recent accidents in which aged drivers ran down people because they "simply didn't see them in the crosswalk before they hit them."

Unfortunately, Christensen says, family members don't have the guts to stand up to Grandma and take her keys away.

"Sen. [Scott] Jenkins says we ought to be brave enough to look that person in the eye and say you are lousy driver," Christensen said. "There are some of us who aren't that brave."

Jenkins, got up to argue, "We have a basic right to face our accusers."

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