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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
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Subject: Re: Audible Traffic Lights
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Date: 16 Nov 90 16:15:08 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

-> In a message to Glen Nielson <11-04-90 20:12> Lee Kerr wrote:
->
-> LK> I THINK YOU AGREE . I HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS MYSELF IN
-> LK> DIFFERENT PARTS OF
-> LK> THE COUNTRY.  ONE OF THE THINGS NEARLY GOT ME KILLED IN SAN
-> LK> FRANSISCO.
-> LK> THEY ARE A PAIN IN THE NECK.

     Yep.  That old light just reached out, took you by the collar and
bodily threw you directly in the path of a speeding taxicab.  The vehicle
wasn't being driven by anyone either.  Self powered.  Those machines are
tryin' to git all of us.  Give me a break.  Unless you were deafened by
that light, you alone had the responsibility of deciding when to cross.
Don't know how typical the one we have is, but though it's loud, you can
still hear over it.  Our worst problem here isn't that light, but the
damned trucks whose motors do drown out everything else.

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