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Re: Aggressive Driving

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From: E. Faubion
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 00:00
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Tony Wang <tonyw44@prodigy.net.nospam> wrote:

>> Our interstates are mostly 70 and 75 except in the urban areas where
>> they are 60 or 65.  We've found that some people are going to speed no
>> matter what.

>Those people are idiots.

Temporary idiots.  I've had the advantage of meeting tons of them face
to face and for the most part they are ordinaryly good citizens who
make bad decisions.  Oh sure, some are true idiots but the percentage
isn't nearly as high as you might think.

>They are the ones you need to nail.

We already do.  And they often have the same excuses as we've been
reading here.

>Look, by raising
>the limit to 65 on I-95, what did they allow the Maryland State Police to do?
>They allowed them to stop ticketing people like me who were cruising at 70 or
>so, and go after guys who are really causing trouble by going 90 or so.  In
>essence, they allowed the troopers to go after the ones who are really driving
>dangerously.

It's human nature for someone who's been caught to wish the police
were the other guy instead.  What you have to remember is that to the
millions of other drivers you ARE the other guy. :-]


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From: in@the.sig (E. Faubion)
Subject: Re: Aggressive Driving
Date: 1998/07/09
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