[jambutty]

It has emerged that lollipop men and women are being harangued and abused by impatient motorists, so much so that now some wear a camera in the hat and in some places there are now two lollipop people on duty at a time.

We heard tales of motorists leaping out of their cars and confronting the lollipop person with threats like wrapping the lollipop stick around the person’s neck.

This really is a sad reflection of our times. The lollipop people are there to aid out kids cross the road on the way to and from school and no doubt would have saved countless lives and injuries over the years.

But when you consider that far too many motorists seem to think that when the traffic lights change to read it really means, “foot down, head down and hope” and bent on gaining a few seconds to waste at the next set of traffic lights, it is hardly surprising that lollipop people have become a target for the utterly selfish motorist.

Although there will always be the odd lollipop person taking a fiendish delight in stopping traffic on a whim, in the main I think that they do a valuable job and do so with due concern for all road users.