🚀 go-pugleaf

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 ...

The behemoth, as you call it, is a vehicle based upon the dimuntive Ford
Ranger pick up truck.




"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:
>
> >Would you have posted this tragic story if the automobile was was a
Mustang
> >or Camaro or Porsche?
> >
> >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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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>
>
>