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From: cuda@ihuxf.UUCP (Mike Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Most obnoxious driver awards
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 08:59:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 08:59:16 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.
>
> 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
> UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
> CS: colonel@buffalo-cs
> BI: csdsicher@sunyabva

WHY does a RURUL UPBRINGIN have ta DO with bein ABLE to CONTROL a VEHICLE?
I was DRIVING on the FARM at 8 got a LI-SENSE at 14 and THE BIGGEST PROBLEM
I HAS is TRYIN to stay OUT of the WAY of CITY DRIVERS who OBVIOUSLY FAILED
GRADE SCHOOL PYSICS and TRY to OCUPY MY space at the SAME TIME.  ANYONE care
for a PLOW OFF?

Actually, the only way to balance the conversation is for someone to take the
other side, right? :}  Given the vast majority of the US's population being
concentrated in the urban areas and the small number of rural defectors who
emigrate to the city in search of adequate subsistance, I would conclude that
the pickup drivers are city born and bred and recieved their unlikely training
in the same place.

Mike Nelson
ihuxf!cuda
I jus an Idaho farm boy.

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