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- From: ajft@ajft_sun.cs.adfa.oz.au (Adrian Tritschler)
- Subject: Re: IS IT POSSIBLE??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.025507.1274@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
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- Reply-To: ajft@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au
- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
- References: <1don6uINNfh@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> <1992Nov10.181433.23307@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <92Nov10.222347.27185@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Nov11.163405.5986@i88.isc.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:55:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.163405.5986@i88.isc.com>, jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
- |> >>Years ago when I was a young lad, we had a similar jerk racing
- |> >>down a narrow residential street with his Z28.
- |> >>
- |> >>One of my neighbors was in the construction business. This man
- |> >>brought home one of his dump trucks one day (and left it in his
- |> >>driveway). El Jerko comes racing up the street at +60 MPH and
- |> >>Mr. Leonetti backs up the dump truck into the street...
- |> >>
- |> >>Needless to say this ended his drag racing days..
- |> >
- |> >Should have ended Mr Leonetti's days of freedom as well.
- |> >I'd want to see him in jail...That kind of behaviour
- |> >is not self-defence, it's vigilanteism.
- |>
- |> The first case is clear cut. The second case could just as easily
- |> been a little old lady in her VW backing out of the driveway
- |> that got hit. If the Z28 driver couldn't avoid another vehicle
- |> in a legitimate use of the road, then he paid for his carelessness.
- |> In the first case, an unexpected (and damn near invisible) hazard
- |> appeared in the road. In the second, a predictable hazard appeared.
- |> If you can't deal with other traffic, you're driving outside your limits.
-
- Take care to read up on your local traffic laws, around here it is an offence
- to reverse onto a public thoroughfare (ie from driveway onto road) and you
- are meant to give way to traffic on the road (regardless of the speed it is
- doing).
- Still, a friend and I were tempted to create some impromptu speed humps out-
- side her house last night, it's a 60 kph side street, but was getting used
- as a high speed shortcut between two main roads.
-
- |> Jonathan E. Quist INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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