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From: keith@seismo.UUCP (Keith Bostic)
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Subject: Re: >55mph and legality
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 19:36:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 19:36:43 1984
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[Chomp, chomp, chomp]

Oh, well, into the fray dear friends...

> Nobody has any right whatsoever to drive above the legal limit, unless
> s/he has a little red light on top and a siren.

Is there any documentation on this?  I once had to attend this sweet little
seminar held by the state of Virginia discussing my driving habits.  This
little twit in the front of the room kept talking about how doctors/ambulances
etc. etc. had no right to speed because "it endangered lives."  Well, being
a rather naive young college student, po'd cause I was there at all, I asked
why policemen were allowed to speed in pursuit of a speeder, since trying to
apprehend said speeder only endangered more people than were previously 
endangered, and public safety was our greatest concern, huh, right teach?
Well, maybe it stops them from killing more, dear heaven, maybe it stops them
from killing more.

> Yep.  Drivers insisting on doing 70+ are keeping traffic moving UNsafely.

Yeah, well, (to bring up a previously unmentioned point, new to all of you)
a) it wasn't unsafe until very recently and b) why don't we all go 5 mph, then
even more people will be saved.

> Each time I had the dubious privilege of hearing the local judge state (he
> must repeat this daily)  "When will you people learn that 56 mph is
> against the law!!!!????"

Yeah, well, so is any type of sex not done on Christmas Eve for the explicit
purpose of procreation.  

Whewwwwwww!!!  Thank you all, I'm sure that I've not done the net or any of
y'all any good, but *my* do I feel better.  And it's that type of selfish,
grasping, mercenary attitude that made America great.

		Hugs and kisses,
		Keith 
			ARPA: keith@seismo 
			UUCP: seismo!keith