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From: chris@cornell.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: There are two kinds.... (actually headlights)
Message-ID: <411@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 11:45:14 EST
Article-I.D.: cornell.411
Posted: Thu Mar 21 11:45:14 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Mar-85 02:38:09 EST
References: <196@dmcnh.UUCP> <1135@watdcsu.UUCP> <3845@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@gvax.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison)
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Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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In flameout <3845@mit-eddie.UUCP> barry@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mikki Barry) writes:
>I HATE IDIOTS WHO USE HIGH BEAM LIGHTS IMPROPERLY!!!!!!
>I can't count the number of times these moronic bimbo brains have
>come up behind me, high beams burning brightly in my rear view mirror. 
>
>Mikki Barry

    I was driving my sister back to school after Christmas break last year
when some Bozo got fairly close behind me and left the beamers on. I was just
starting to get the temper into cussing mode when she asked if she could 
borrow my rear-view mirror. She proceeded to reposition the mirror to direct
the light back in the jerk's face. I'm tellin' ya, that did the trick real
quick! The guy backed off the beams and my car. 
    It's not a great idea for the driver to do this, as it is a distraction.
However, I've used this a few other times and it works when a rider does the
aiming. I know that the eager young flamers will say that you could cause an
accident doing this, but I get followed by an awful lot of those terrible
tailgating beamers. They WILL cause an accident if they ride my bumper doing
60+ and obliterating my forward vision. I will say that it's not a good idea 
to do this maneuver in heavy traffic, but I trust common sense is not obselete
yet. Have fun...

chris                                          

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