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Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 03 Jul 1998 10:14:32 -0400, Tony Wang <tonyw44@prodigy.net.nospam> wrote:
>
>
>Joel Garry wrote:
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>> There appears to be some relation between risk taking entrepreneurially and
>> in driving.  Both should be allowed because they improve many things.  Risk
>> needs to be judged correctly, and that can only be learned through trial.
>
>Well, I guess my thing is.......how much risk is acceptable to the people around him
>on the road.  I mean, it's one thing if you kill yourself, but it's another thing
>entirely if you take someone else with you.
>
>Case in point.......a couple of weeks ago, I got sideswiped by a tractor trailer who
>didn't stop.  I had two other people in the car.  And even though it wasn't my fault
>-- and that's what's in the police report -- they were still my responsibility and I
>feel worse about their injuries than anything else.  And this is with minor injuries
>-- a couple of bruises and cuts.

Oh man, don't get me started on idiot bigriggers.  I did not mean to 
intimate that idiot=risktaking.  Proper risk evaluation is the antithesis
of idiocy.

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From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving
Date: 1998/07/06
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