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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 09:06:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 09:06:43 1985
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John Allred has posted another example of why folks are
concerned about the "meism" attitude that seems to prevail
when twanks get behind the wheel.  He seems to think that
speeding is his god given right.  He admits to doing 75 mph
on the freeway.  Now given that the posted speed is 55, and
most drivers probably do 60 -65, here is a jerk doing 75.
Now, if he is doing 75, he has to be weaving in and out of
traffic.  Does that sound like a reasonable driver?  Not
to me it doesn't.

Then there is the other guy (forgot the name) who admits to
doing at LEAST 10 mph faster on local streets.  This is a real
bonifide ass.  It's guys like him that have caused a tremendous
increase in the incidence of hit-and-run in, at least, the
northeast.  I live on a street that is posted as 35 mph.
And, as I have said before, there are 55+ school age kids
living along this street for 1/4 mile.  The law of averages says
that there will be a bad accident on this street.  The accident
will be bad enough at 35, but we have a constant stream of
meism types barreling their BMWS, Hondas, and Volvos down
the street at speeds exceeding 50 mph.  I for one do not want
my kids to become hood ornaments for some feather brained
idiot who thinks that speeding regulations do not pertain
to him/her.

I don't give a rat's ass what you do on the freeway, my kids
don't play on the median.  But, since you folks admit that
freeway driving causes you to speed on local streets, then
you should be locked up for aggravated stupidity.
T. C. Wheeler