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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Most obnoxious driver awards
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 09:33:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 09:33:41 1986
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["Captain Buffalo!  Look out for that truck loaded with DYNAMITE!"]

> The single recurring similarity in the vast majority of incidents is that the
> idiot in the four wheeled vehicle just happens to be driving a pickup truck.
> From this I have concluded that if someone is slightly sub-human, a first
> class jerk, and heavily insecure, that person is more likely to buy a pickup
> truck than any other vehicle.   I guess it has something to do with being 
> unsure of their own manhood.  (Not to be sexist, but I've yet to have a woman
> in a pickup pull one of these Neanderthal stunts.)

My own experience (in the suburbs of Buffalo) confirms that pickup drivers
in general are less courteous and considerate than other drivers.  An
alternative explanation is that rural drivers are likely to drive pickups,
and unlikely to have been trained well.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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