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- From: glen@tegra.COM (Glen Osterhout)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Actual, Factual, Bizarre Happening
- Keywords: If you had /Re:/h:j in your kill file, you wouldn't have had to read this
- Message-ID: <3550@charon.tegra.COM>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 15:55:44 GMT
- References: <Bt3woo.JBy@rice.edu>
- Reply-To: glen@tegra.UUCP (Glen Osterhout)
- Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
- Lines: 28
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- In article <Bt3woo.JBy@rice.edu> andsol@owlnet.rice.edu (Andrew J. Solberg) writes:
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- >Looking up, I saw that a ratty-looking red corvette had not braked in time
- >for a traffic light and had rear-ended a smallish compact of Japanese
- >manufacture. The victimized car was almost completely totalled, no doubt
- >because the culprit had been travelling well in excess of the legal speed
- >limits.
-
- >Had my tire not blown out, it would have been my little Honda, not some
- >other schmo's, that would have been sodomized by the Corvette in question.
- >There are two morals to this story:
-
- >2) Always, Always, ALWAYS drive the speed limit.
-
- 3) Never stop at red lights .
-
-
- I have been in two accidents while stopped at red lights:
-
- The first time I was hit by a Boston city bus, the other time I was
- hit by a taxi. These two accidents happened in Allston, Massachusetts
- within a few weeks of each other. At the time I blamed the drivers of
- those vehicles, but now I know they were just teaching me an important
- lesson in Boston driving: a moving target is harder to hit.--
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- * Glen Osterhout Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, Massachusetts
- * email to: glen@tegra.com
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