This is a saying I enjoy, because it is quite often when you try to help people, perhaps to an extent that you would not normally, that almost invariably there is a complaint or a problem. In another context, a motorist charged with obstruction of justice for flashing his headlights to other motorists in America to indicate a police speed trap, has come up with a novel defence.

He says that the act of flashing headlights is a form of protected speech and that he is simply getting punished because the government does not like the message he is communicating. It will be an interesting case to follow, particularly in South Africa, for those who use Twitter and have seen the alerts from @PigSpotter for example, and this American State will have to decide whether it is allowed or not. In the State of Florida, for example, you cannot be prosecuted for flashing your headlights but in other States you can be.