Re: They All Bought the Farm

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From: Richard Berkeley
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00

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Marc wrote:

> And I go 20 in school zones marked at 20 (I'm the slowest car on the
> road, but I go over 100 mph all the time in the city limits of Dallas.
> I always use my signal, always come to a complete stop.
>
> I break one law.  I firmly believe that there is no one set speed at
> which one becomes unsafe.  Under the correct circumstances, 200+ mph
> isn't unsafe on a public road.
>
> Now I'll just sit back and wait for the flames, though they will try
> and tell me that I'm advocating 200 in a school zone, and not in west
> TX where I've driven for more than an hour without ever seeing a
> single other vehicle with miles of visability and no entrances to the
> restricted access road.

No flame from me here.  I do the same thing but I break two laws here - speeding and
reckless driving (since going 100 mph or above in California is "reckless driving.")
In residential areas, I usually travel at 20 mph even though it's posted at 25 in my
area and that's prevented me from rolling over kids with my 5,500 pound SUV (Isuzu
Trooper Limited).

However, once I'm out in the open, I usually let 'er barrel at 100 mph down the
newly-constructed 73 highway in California (and have been doing that for a year - no
accidents ever).  Nobody else uses this one since it's a toll road.  However, when I
had my Audi (which I miss), I usually travelled at almost 130 mph going downhills.

Oh, the glee.

Richard

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Subject: Re: They All Bought the Farm
Date: 1998/07/23
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