XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:45:08 -0700 (PDT), "His Highness the   
   > TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of the Jungle"   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sep 28, 12:37 pm, Steve  wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:37:09 +0000 (UTC), Brent   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>> >On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   >>> >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:20:46 -0700 (PDT), "His Highness the   
   >>> >> TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of the Jungle"    
   >>> >> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >>>On Sep 27, 8:46 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"   
   >>> >>> wrote:   
   >>> >>>> On Sep 27, 4:51 pm, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of   
   >>>   
   >>> >>>> the Jungle"  wrote:   
   >>> >>>> > , but I'm still nervous of other drivers   
   >>> >>>> > forcing me to run the light, like when they keep going and I am in   
   the   
   >>> >>>> > middle of the intersection.   
   >>>   
   >>> >> Don't be ridiculous.  If you're already in the middle of an   
   >>> >> intersection you're either already running the light or you're with   
   >>> >> the green and perfectly legal.   
   >>>   
   >>> >>>> No one can"force" you to run the light.  You're as bad as the idiots   
   >>> >>>> who say speeders on the freeways force everyone else to speed.!!!    I   
   >>> >>>> never speed or run reds and no criminal is gonna force me to.  I got   
   >>> >>>> balls.   
   >>>   
   >>> >>>You can only be stupid to cut off a car coming at you determined to   
   >>> >>>run the red light and whatever stands on his way.   
   >>>   
   >>> >>>Actually you'll be charged for the accident too!   
   >>>   
   >>> >>>You are obssessed with speed without minding where that speeding   
   >>> >>>happens. For example, I do NOT mind a Ferrari going 120 mph on the   
   >>> >>>expressway on the passing lane.   
   >>>   
   >>> >> God Lord, I certainly mind somebody going 120 MPH regardless of the   
   >>> >> car and regardless if they're Michael Schumacher.   
   >>>   
   >>> >Why?   
   >>>   
   >>>   Because they're going to come straight into the back of   
   >>> somebody going 75 MPH who is passing somebody going 70 MPH... Probably   
   >>> a big truck.  That'd be messy.   
   >>>   
   >>> >It doesn't make a difference to me. Then again I'm not a control   
   >>> >freak, like the LLBs who've blocked the passing lane which brings some   
   >>> >arseholish drivers into the right and shoulder at high speed where they   
   >>> >cause problems for me. Like the BMW M3 driver that passed me using an on   
   >>> >ramp acceleration lane and the right shoulder.   
   >>>   
   >>> >I drove nearly 120mph on the autobahn behind a cop I couldn't quite keep   
   >>> >up with (damn 1.6L rental car ;)) and it was a complete non-event. It's   
   >>> >time americans stopped being a bunch of holier than thou control freaks   
   >>> >and stopped trying to turn all of society into a first grade government   
   >>> >school classroom.   
   >>>   
   >>>    Unless you're making that all up as I suspect, I think   
   >>> that it was probably 120 KPH since speedometers over that register in   
   >>> kilometers.    That'd make it about 70 MPH.  Not many 1.6 litre cars   
   >>> that will even go 120 MPH.  Maybe a mini-cooper.  I sure wouldn't want   
   >>> to rear end a semi truck in one of those...   
   >>   
   >>I don't want to be in a collision b/ MiniCooper and SUV.   
   >>   
   >>What is the problem, the Mini or the Maxi?   
   >   
   >   
   > The one that broke the law.   
      
   Most interstates should be speed derestricted. Enforcement should   
   concentrate on lane usage and signaling and proper merging.   
      
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