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Re: Fighting tailgaters

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From: RN
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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From: RN@ohsu.edu
Subject: Re: Fighting tailgaters
Date: 1998/07/27
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