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From: eli@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
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Subject: Re: Halogen headlights -- ARGH!
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 15:15:36 EDT
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> Halogen headlights are obnoxious!  They serve virtually no useful
> purpose, except for sadists who enjoy blinding other drivers!  Well,
> I'm not gonna take it any more!
> 
> I propose the following solution to the problem:  whenever you see
> obnoxiously bright lights staring you in the face, turn on your high
> beams.  Sure it's obnoxious, but they're doing it to you; and if enough
> people join in this crusade, halogens will disappear (except for drivers
> who are sadistic AND masochistic).  Of course, this should only be done
> when the Enemy is alone; it wouldn't quite be fair to blind 
> noncombatants.  (Far away noncombatants, however, will only be affected
> mildly; whereas the crusade to ban halogens will spare them untold
> future suffering imposed by the Enemy.)
> 
> This guerilla warfare program also applies, of course, to mis-aimed
> headlights, and does not apply to any halogens that might somehow be
> aimed in a non-offensive way (but I doubt that's possible).

Certain halogens are legal when adjusted as specified by the Motor Vehicle
Codes.  If I had halogen headlights legally adjusted and I was driving down the
road with my halogen "LOW" beams on and some *OBNOXIOUS* twerp zapped me
with his "HIGH" beams as "punishment,"  I'd f*ck him right back with my
HALOGEN high beams.  I can play chicken as well as the next guy, better
in fact.  Viligante tactics often backfire.

-eli
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