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From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: Tailgating 18-wheelers: Solution (guaranteed, even!)
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 19:59:10 EDT
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> >    Before you head out on the road, you have to prepare your weapon...
> > Take 3-4 fairly good sized GLASS Christmas tree ornaments and fill them 
> > with some kind of paint (I like black oil-based house paint).  Then seal 
> > the tops of them with children's Play-doh or something similar.  It helps
> > to keep the box the ornaments came in to hold them in the car.  Then,
> > when some jerk in a 18-wheeler pulls up behind you like that,  first be
> > polite and ask him to move back by waving out the window with your hand.
> > If he doesn't back off, simply reach over and pick up one of the ornaments,
> > hold it at arm's length out the window, and throw it straight up.  I don't
> > know of too many people who can see through house paint!  It really works,
> > although the consequences can be quite drastic...
> > 
> > NOTE:  I take no responsibility for those of you who try this!
> 
> I really hope this guy is joking, and yet I can't find any smiley
> faces. I also hope he talks big and acts small ( actually quite
> likely ). But, just in case I think I'll send a copy of his posting
> to the New York State Police, they might just be looking for him.
> 
> Mike @ AMDCAD

   O.K. now.  I have gotten a lot of flames about this one and it's really
getting on my nerves.  So now I'm going to tell everyone what I have already
told about 10 other people:
  
    First, yes I am only joking.  If people would learn to think about what
they read before shooting off their mouths (fingers) they would see that I am
not serious.  If you still can't see what I mean, let me clear the haze.
Remember the last line of my posting?  ("NOTE: I take no...").  To most
people I know this does indeed imply that I am not serious.  If it doesn't
think about it a little longer...it might come to you.
    Second, why don't I see any flames for the guy who mounts a 130 watt
lamp on the back of his car?  That can cause just as much trouble by causing
someone to be blinded so that they swerve off the road.

   Also, if Mike @ AMDCAD or anyone else wants to blow me in to the NYS 
Police, go right ahead.  Let's see if you just talk big and act small, which
is also just as likely.  They can't do a thing to me simply because I'm not
that stupid to do that kind of thing.  
   So, in the future, I won't post anything that might even remotely resemble
that posting so as not to disturb or offend the less mentally agile.
             
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   Adrian G. Zannin
   SUNY @ Buffalo

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