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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / December 2006

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Laura Bush says - ONLY LITTLE PEOPLE OBEY STOP SIGNS23 Dec 2006 22:34 GMT21
Imagine if you ran a stop sign in front of witnesses and KILLED someone
in another car.  And then it was discovered the victim was your former
boy friend!!.  Don't  you think there'd be at least a grand jury
investigation?  But when you're from a rich white family like laura
Driving drunk can take a heavy financial toll - GOOD!!!23 Dec 2006 21:26 GMT12
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16281188.htm?source=rss&channel=dfw_news
Driving drunk can take a heavy financial toll
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2 police officers shot today in downtown Long Beach CA23 Dec 2006 08:18 GMT1
Today 12/22/06 two police officers of the Long Beach police department
where gunned down in cold blood on Long beach Blvd in downtown Long
Beach while they were making a rutine traffic stop next to Wal Mart.
The two police officers never had a chance as they were caught off
Sloth Coaster Experiment22 Dec 2006 17:25 GMT61
I was in rush hour traffic on a surface street yesterday morning, and
I decided to try a little experiment. I was in the left lane of three
in my direction. There was a long line of cars behind me, but the
middle lane was mostly clear. About 500 feet in front of me was a red
Patrol anecdote22 Dec 2006 15:12 GMT6
I ran across this anecdote in the Jan. 2007 Legion magazine, and it
made me think of Jaybird for some strange reason.
A man sped down the highway, feeling secure in a group of cars all
traveling at the same speed.  However, when he passed a patrol car, it
Ping-necromancer, Scott...check this out!22 Dec 2006 14:37 GMT6
Here are some sign art hack jobs.  It's amazing what a GIMP operator
can do with a Speed Limit 5 sign (the potential Aunt Judy favorite).
http://www.mylandofmisery.com/roads/roadsignart.htm
Enjoy the view.
Selective yellow... new with rice boys?22 Dec 2006 06:18 GMT13
It's been years since I last saw a car with selective yellow headlamps
on the road. So tonight one is behind me.... eventually he passes me...
riced out car... cracked front bumper cover dangling... (why do rice
boy cars almost always have body damage??) Dome light on... driver ...
Speeding Ticket While Doing Average Speed22 Dec 2006 04:20 GMT255
On Wednesday I got a speeding ticket for doing 68mph on the San
Francisco/Oakland Bay bridge at 9:14pm.
The speed limit for the Bay Bridge is 50mph and so techinically I was
doing 18mph over the limit - which sounds like a lot, except that I was
Sloth Linked to Crash That Killed 3 Teens22 Dec 2006 03:28 GMT3
Here we have a confirmed case of Sloth Kills. A driver swerved to
avoid hitting a slower vehicle, lost control, and crashed into a tree,
killing 3 people.
http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-losfelizfatalities,0,578493.story?coll=ktla-news-1
I Love This!22 Dec 2006 03:14 GMT11
Some people have come up with a great way to make money on the WWW.
They buy a USENET feed, pipe OUR messages into a web site they set up,
and display our posts along with a bunch of advertising. The site in
the URL below is especially amuising because it has some sort of inept
Planned bigger-rig law bad pollcy21 Dec 2006 18:16 GMT18
What a shock!  Editorial in the Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA 12/18/06
by Dmitri Iglitzin and Steven Hill.  (Footnote says Iglitzin is a labor
law atty in Seattle, Hill a "director of the political reform program
of the New America Foundation).  Take the credentials for what they ...
Here's one for Jaybird.21 Dec 2006 15:50 GMT5
Situation: vehicle A, a Jeep, parked in a streetside parking space,
after the through traffic clears, starts to leave the space.
Simultaneously, vehicle B, a rice-burner SUV, decides to leave a
parking lot across the street, thus resulting in a 10-mph or less
Result of Biased EU DRL rulemaking effort21 Dec 2006 11:19 GMT1
EU summary of DRL rulemaking effort
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/roadsafety/library/blind_spot/drl_consultation_cha
rts.pdf

You can tell by the Title of their committee/report that it was a VERY
biased effort.
Is it agains the law to cuss out a cop??21 Dec 2006 07:21 GMT65
Comments??
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People that speed don't kill People.  Idiot sloths kill people.

About safe driving and speed. Answer this one.21 Dec 2006 06:04 GMT20
Those who know the correct answer keep your gob shut !
You find yourself entering a bend in a road that turns out to be tighter than it
first looked like.
You're concerned that your road speed may be just fractionally on the high side.
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