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Re: Last minute lane changers

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00
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On 18 Jul 1998 01:41:14 GMT, Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@06.usenet.us.com> wrote:
>In
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>Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc) writes:
>
>>You stop at a light.  The person behind you stops at the light.  There
>>is a car in front of you.
>
>>Got that picture in your mind?
>
>>Now the car behind you accelerates for no known reason.  If they hit
>>you, would that be their fault or theirs?  Do you think that you'd be
>>able to avoid getting hit?
>
>It's statistically unlikely that doubt this will ever happen to me.
>
>Was the motorist behind you drunk?  Were you not able to guess this from
>the way he was driving and manage to stay far from him?  Did the car
>contain a bunch of rowdy kids who were not paying attention to the road?
>And did you have trouble staying far away from them?

I got bumped while stopped at a freeway onramp stoplight.  The jerk tried 
to tell me I rolled back into him!  There's no shortage of assholes who 
should go back to New York... who give no clue they are about to do something
stupid.

>-- 
>Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
>a2i communications, a quality ISP
>    "Any idiot can avoid automobile accidents that are his own fault.  It
>     takes skill to avoid accidents that are the *other* person's fault."

jg
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From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Last minute lane changers
Date: 1998/07/20
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