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From: mhnadel@gryphon.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Quiz 2
Message-ID: <1990@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 19:36:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1990
Posted: Tue Oct 20 19:36:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 15:44:58 EDT
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Reply-To: mhnadel@gryphon.CTS.COM (Miriam Nadel)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <7552@ism780c.UUCP> mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) writes:
>
>Anyway, it just goes to show.  Pedestrians seem to think they have the
>absolute right of way.  I'm sorry, but when *I'm* a pedestrian, I
>obey the laws of the jungle:  The biggest and baddest go first!
>Some fool may jump right out on a crosswalk in front of my car
>and guess what I'll put on his tombstone???  "I was in the right."
>
The California Motor Vehicle Code says that PEDESTRIANS HAVE THE RIGHT
OF WAY.  The California Motor Vehicle Code says that THERE IS AN
IMPLIED CROSSWALK AT EVERY INTERSECTION.

The basic rules of right of way are that THE SLOWEST AND/OR LEAST
MANEUVERABLE ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY.  For example, sailboats have
the right of way over powerboats, bicycles have the right of way over
cars, etc.

The unfortunate fact is that the overwhelming majority of Californians are
so conditioned to believing that a ton of metal protects them from having
to be polite.  If you don't like the rules move to New Jersey where it
is perfectly legal to run over a pedestrian.

This is supposed to be civilizaton, not a goddamn jungle.

Miriam Nadel
-- 
"In 1953 I realized that the straight line leads to the downfall of mankind"
					-Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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