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Subject: Re: Quiz 2
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 16:43:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 16:43:49 1987
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In article <342@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM> denbeste@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM
(Steven Den Beste) writes:

>Joe, a typical Massachusetts driver, heads in from suburbia on Mass-Ave through
>Cambridge. As he gets to Harvard square, he faces the view of a green light and
>thousands of jay-walking pedestrians of all ages, dress styles and inherent
>coloration schemes.

>Joe curses loudly in several languages and creeps his car forward in the vain
>hope that the pedestrians will let him pass. Serious consideration is given to
>running the bastards down.

Sounds like Telegraph Avenue here. I rarely even drive, and it pisses
me off to see it. Safety in numbers (the Parisian method of crossing
the street, since the cars wouldn't stop anyways) but many of these IQ
50 peds will walk in front of a speeding car. And it disapoints me that
they're never hit, it seems a violation of the laws of probability that
someone doesn't get killed this way every week. I mean, the gene-pool
is polluted with this dunderhead gene. Is this gene is being protected
by some mysterious force? Or is it all that acid they took in the
sixties? I don't know.

But once-a-week fatality would put a quick stop to this practice.

Local people know that Telegraph is the idiot zone, but the occasional
out-of-towner or even the local sociopath should pick off a few every
month. I don't get it.

>Shortly there-after he gets to his destination further into Cambridge, and
>parks. He must now walk to his destination and cross Mass-Ave himself.

>QUIZ:  Does he:

>1.01: Wait for the cross-walk light?

Constuctive behaviour should not be condoned in alt.flame.

     Stephen Hero     \brahms gang