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Metro's fault...

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From: David Barts
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:45
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Last night, I was walking home from the grocery store and I noticed
that the traffic was backed up as if an accident was blocking
traffic.

Sure enough, the Metro #73 had managed to skid on the slushy street
as it was trying to turn a corner and had scored a direct hit on
a steel traffic light pole.  This was a one-vehicle accident, so
it was obvious who was at fault for it.  (In addition, NE 145th
St. was only _slushy_; as someone who learned to drive in the
Rockies it always amazes me how much trouble a piddling snowfall
can cause some people.  But I digress.)

Anyway, right after I walked passed the scene of the accident, the
driver's window opened and a mostly-eaten apple sailed out of it.
I was wondering what on earth was going on, when I looked up and
noticed a message scrolling across the green dot-matrix display
that normally displays the route number and destination:

	bus error (core dumped)

-- 
David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
davidb@ce.washington.edu                Seattle, WA  98195
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Subject: Metro's fault...
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