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From: rafe@reed.UUCP (Rafe Needleman)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: There are two kinds.... (actually highbeam twits)
Message-ID: <1164@reed.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 00:00:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 00:00:59 1985
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Reply-To: rafe@reed.UUCP (Rafe Needleman)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Interesting thing happened to me when I was driving from San Francisco to 
Portland (OR) last Christmas...  It was late, I'd been driving for hours,
and my brights were one when I came up behind a truck.  In order to inform
me my brights were on, he flashed some side-mirror-mounted lights (that I
swear were as bright as regular headlights) right at me.  I shut off my
brights immediately.

I have never seen headlights pointing backwards on anything except firetrucks,
police cars, and ambulances.  Do all semi's have these nasty (but exceedingly
useful) devices?  Some?  Or was this driver just looking for a way to
get back at all the buffoons who blind people with brights?

-Rafe
 (rafe@reed)