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In article <uu2stlm2e5bi3b@corp.supernews.com>,
   "Jeff Strickland" <CRWLRJEFF@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>There is no indication from the story that the SUV had anything to do 
with
>this tragic accident. For all we kinow, the fault could lie with the 
bike
>rider ...
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>The behemoth, as you call it, is a vehicle based upon the dimuntive 
Ford
>Ranger pick up truck.

The current Explorer is not anymore, and it's considerably bigger than 
the Ranger.

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>"Jaybird" <Jaybird@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:3ddfb7ff.3237015@news.starpower.net...
>> On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:34:10 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
>> <CRWLRJEFF@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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>> >Would you have posted this tragic story if the automobile was was 
a
>Mustang
>> >or Camaro or Porsche?
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>> >I find it utterly moronic for you to suggest that the SUV was 
somehow
>> >responsible for an accident between a teen driver and a teen on a 
bike.
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>> Well, you could profit from closer attention to the issue.  A major
>> contention of those who object to oversize SUVs is their effect on
>> their own drivers' mentalities.  The sheer size of these behemoths
>> tends to create in their drivers a sense of impregnability which 
often
>> seems to be followed by a near-total disregard for the rights of 
other
>> drivers.
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>> Far be it from me to defend the average Mustang or Camaro driver, 
btw,
>> but I think their own particular psychological problems are 
different
>> in kind and in magnitude from those of the average SUV driver.
>>
>> FWIW, I have driven SUVs and noticed the sme effect on myself, and 
I
>> am a notoriously kind and gentle human being. </sarcasm>
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