🚀 go-pugleaf

David Crane wrote:
> 
> John Hess (johnhess@cris.com) wrote:
> : In article <4vl11k$h05@news1.sunbelt.net>, jrobeson@sde.state.sc.us says...
> : >
> : >P.S.  You wouldn't push, shove, and squeeze to get in front of me in a
> : >line at the burger barn or the movies, would you?  That could get you big
> : >time pain and aggravation.  Don't use sheetmetal as a substitute for
> : >brains.
> 
> : Unfortunately, there are those who would.  The only thing I would add as a
> : preference to your above is that if you are collecting cars behind you,
> : even when passing, you should be courteous enough to let some of them by.
> : You are, after all, slower traffic.
> 
> I take great pleasure in pulling over to let speeders sail by on the
> left when I am the second fastest vehicle in the vicinity. Truckers
> call it "letting somebody else beat the bushes" (for radar traps).

This, of course, is Really Good Reason #4,612 to simply allow speeders to 
get on by, down the road and away from YOUR car.

You (the generic 'you') really have no clue "why" they want to go faster 
than you, just that they do. If you can pull over safely, it costs you 
nothing, and really does add to overall road safety.

The simple fact is, you left lane campers can come up with all the 
rationalizations you wish for your actions, but they really amount to a 
lower form of vigilantism, and they ARE illegal. People HAVE been 
ticketed for obstructing traffic in Texas, and CAN be again. Because some 
cop claims "there's no such law," merely points to how ignorant some 
officers can be.

It's true that such tickets are rarely written, mostly in favor of the 
more easily defended "speeding" tickets, but consider this. Relatively 
few "failure to yield right of way," "improper lane change," and 
"improper speed for conditions" tickets are written either. Does that 
mean these actions are any less dangerous? I don't think so, and 
obstructing traffic leads to increased frustration levels, which 
dramatically increases the danger level on the roads.

-- 
Olin Murrell
Austin, TX
olin@bga.com
http://www.realtime.com/~olin