Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: highway violence in the U.S.
Message-ID: <847@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 19:35:17 EST
Article-I.D.: gloria.847
Posted: Sun Jan 27 19:35:17 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Jan-85 07:55:31 EST
References: <1210@shark.UUCP> <287@varian.UUCP> <647@whuxlm.UUCP>
Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci.
Lines: 22

> > > Every country has its own informal "code of the road" which
> > > may seem peculiar to the foreign visitor.  In the USA it is
> > > common practice to shoot out street lights and traffic signs
> > > to relieve the boredom of a long trip.  Owing to the
> > > difficulty of shooting a passenger in an oncoming car between
> > > the eyes, it is likely that the unfortunate victim was the
> > > unlucky recipient of a stray bullet aimed at a highway sign
> > > or headlight.
> > 
> >  I think the rest of us would prefer you speak for yourself and
> >  not the whole country!  We have a poor enough image in the motoring
> >  world (and the world in general) without this type of generalization.
> 
> Uhhh. . .I think the original article is a, uhhhh, joke, y'know?
> 
I agree that we ought to present a better image of the U.S.  What will
foreigners think if we tell them that we like to shoot out traffic
signals?  I have enough trouble on the highway just fighting off
bands of Indians.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel