🚀 go-pugleaf

Rob Lang wrote:

> DPH wrote in message <35C18960.3B88FE71@csi.com>...
> >This would only be for life/death situation.  Wouldn't care who liked it or
> not
> >afterwards.
>
> A couple of years ago, I witnessed someone who presumably had some kind of
> emergency and was trying to get through traffic.  He had his brights on,
> 4-ways flashing, and was sounding a rhythmic beep-beep-beep with his horn.
> For the period of time I saw, nearly everyone moved out of his way.  With
> cars that didn't move right away he hung back a car length or so and just
> kept up with the horn on-off-on, the car in front would catch on in a few
> seconds and yield. Only one car didn't move, and the guy didn't have to
> bully his way past, since the car in the right lane slowed to let him get
> by.  Everyone just seemed to pick up that this car was in trouble, and not
> the usual gedouttamyway tailgater.  This would be the method I would use in
> an emergency situation.
>
> But if somebody continued to refuse to move and it was truly
> _Life-Or-Death_?  My knee-jerk reaction is "Hell yes I will go right through
> them" - but this is really an awesome act with awesome consequences.  What
> about the innocent passenger in that car? (who may be pleading with the
> driver to please move over)  What about the minivan full of kids in the
> other lane that might get taken out by a punted LLB?
>
> I can tell you if I was rushing my dying mother to the hospital, and she
> found out I'd killed innocent people on her account, she'd never forgive me.
>
> I just don't think the issue is that simple.  My two cents.
>
> Rob

Yeah, its extreme, and likely never to come to pass.

In the event that it did, I take the position that the life of my
friend/relative who is bleeding/choking to death is much more important to me
than than someone who deliberately won't get the message concerning getting out
of the way.  And I'm pretty resourceful - I could _probably_ get around on the
left or right aprons of the highway.  Again, this would be a last resort, only
if there were no other way.  Mom could either hate me or not afterward - at
least maybe she'd be alive to do it.

DPH