Many social fads are started and then followed by teenagers. Sometimes, as with the goldfish-eating craze that swept mainland colleges in the 1940s, there was little harm done. There’s a fad on Kaua’i currently that seems harmless but could cause
Many social fads are started and then followed by teenagers.
Sometimes, as with the goldfish-eating craze that swept mainland colleges in the 1940s, there was little harm done.
There’s a fad on Kaua’i currently that seems harmless but could cause some unforeseen difficulties.
The latest island fad is decals on cars. Not the decals plastered all over windshields and bumpers, but rather ones bearing designs and slogans in script and placed on vehicles’ rear-view mirrors.
Some adults have pointed out what they consider the potential danger of a driver obscuring his or her vision of what’s behind them. But according to the Kaua’i County Police Department, the stickers are not breaking any laws.
“There is a section of the motor vehicle code covering decals (obscuring vision) on windshields, but there is nothing in the (state) code about rear view mirrors,” said Lt. Ale Quibilan, the Police Department’s Lihu’e district commander.
Staff writer Dennis Wilken can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 252) and dfwilken@pulitzer.net
