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Article #14230Re: Fighting tailgaters
From: RN
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 00:00
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>From: "C.R. Krieger" <warp1@lakefield.net> >Subject: Re: Fighting tailgaters >Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:07:37 -0500 >DPH wrote in message <35B76CCD.F4F62255@csi.com>... >>I gave it some thought, and I think I know a device that could discourage >>taligaters and still not cause accidents or be otherwise illegal. >> >>A device that would dispense a _small_ stream of sand from the back of >your car >>that would impinge on a car following too closely would likely cause the >>tailgater to back off. >Tailgating (or "bump drafting", as I call it), when properly done, would >require that YOU rig something up on your roof, because the sand wouldn't >have a chance to get to the road OR the windshield before the following car >passed it. This little 'thing' would certainly attract the attention of >the local constabulary and get your OWN sorry butt into stir, don't you >think? >-- >C.R. Krieger >"Ignore 'em, m'dear, they're beneath your dignity." - W.C. Fields How about a Spud Gun pointing backwards in the stationwagon or SUV. Roll down the back window, and if looking down the barrel of a small cannon doesn't cure the tailgating, a potato thru the windshield might just do it....... ;-)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,11a4bad067a27503 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,11a4bad067a27503 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public From: RN@ohsu.edu Subject: Re: Fighting tailgaters Date: 1998/07/27 Message-ID: <RN.341.35BCAE74@ohsu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 375360150 References: <35B76CCD.F4F62255@csi.com> <6pa2qp$o7b$1@news.inc.net> Organization: OHSU Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving