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- From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Message-ID: <BxtzI6.830@cmptrc.lonestar.org>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:51:41 GMT
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- Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX
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- In article <RTARAZ.92Nov14211852@bigwpi.WPI.EDU> rtaraz@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ramin Taraz) writes:
- >I was just watching cops on fox and they had a report on an accident
- >after they showed that the victom was about 40 feet away from the
- >seen, I was sure that it was a car-bike accident.
- >
- >the cage driver said: I looked both ways and didn't see anything, so I
- >took a left on the road (he was going on a road from a parking lot, I
- >think). Look both ways and saw nothing! obviously there was
- >something. I dont know how he managed to not see the headlight of the
- >motorcycle. (the accident happened after the sunset.)
- >The driver was charged with a ADD count! (asshole drunk driver)
- >
- >Ohh, the cop said at the end: they had to amputate her leg! ouuuch
- >
-
- One of the cops on the show mentioned that the cager was also being charged
- with failure to yield right-of-way and two counts of vehicular assault.
- I saw this episode just 5 minutes after finishing a 150 mile ride across
- north Texas (dusk, early evening, worst time for not being seen on a bike)
- and the bloody scenes almost made me throw up.
- --
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- Neal Howard '91 XLH-1200 DoD #686 CompuTrac, Inc (Richardson, TX)
- "Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps
- we shall learn the truth." -- August Kekule' (1890)
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