Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!sunybcs!ugzannin From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Tailgating 18 Wheelers: a (let's-change-this-heading) solution Message-ID: <1640@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-May-85 20:09:54 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1640 Posted: Fri May 3 20:09:54 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 6-May-85 00:25:23 EDT Distribution: net Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 43 Attention: Rob St. Amant Rob St. Amant writes: > David, it's not too hard to tell if someone is in a _serious_ hurry. > The serious speeders lean on their horns and flash blinkers and high > beams. If someone does this to me, I get out of the way. My posting > was aimed at the casual everyday speeder. And don't try to tell me > that I can't tell the difference. As to who gave me the right to > regulate the speed of everyone else, do you seriously think that cops > are the only ones responsible for seeing that laws are kept? Do you > just _assume_ that whoever breaks them has a good reason? > > Rob St. Amant Well, Rob, as originator of this subject heading, I would like to ask that this discussion be given a new subject heading, -- like 'Self-righteous crap for Police Academy drop-outs'. Next, I would like to ask what you think you are doing playing two-bit traffic cop flunkie. You say that you can tell who the serious speeders are? Well, I hope your not the *asshole* that was in front of my father about 10 years ago when he was rushing me to the hospital after I had been attacked and mauled by a German shepard. My father was leaning on the horn with one hand, flashing the highbeams with his foot, and holding what was left of the right side of my face together with his other hand. We got stuck behind two jerks, one in each lane, that were forming a wall and wouldn't let anyone pass. When the guy directly in front of us saw my father going nuts (and understandibly) behind him, he simply hung his hand out the window and gave my father the finger. Why not just move over and let people pass? You may be saving a life. If people want to speed, let them. They will get what is coming to them eventually. If your going to say something like 'What about the person he'll kill?', well, what about the person that may be in danger of dying behind you? Until you are sure, and even when you are, I suggest that you play it safe and move over if possible or one of these days some truck (which is what this discussion was originally about anyway) drives over you. Your self-righteous crap won't do you a damn bit of good then... Think about it... -- Adrian Zannin ..{burdvax,rocksvax,bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath}!sunybcs!ugzannin BITNET: CS24173@SUNYABVA