Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Of course he is an idiot and deserves to be punished. But in Sri Lanka - and probably most of Asia - no one wears a helmet, they all ride in flip flops and they sit their kids on the petrol tank with mum and another kid or two and the family pig on the back. The traffic is far more busy than over here too. Every bus driver is a maniac. I'm not condoning what this idiot is doing - but in many countries he'd be just another rider taking his son to school.