Audi Caravan

[Michael Riebs / Audi V8]

----- Original Message -----
From: <JShadzi at aol.com>
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> if I'm going 110 and coming up on a car going 75,
> I don't expect them to move over, I go around them,
> if they can even see me.  If the Audi that flashed you was
> at fault, it was for expecting you to move over in the heat
> of the moment, he should have just gone around you.
> Race track rules should have applied there.

> Bottom line:  Don't cruise in the fast lane, and if someone is gaining on
you rapidly, stay put.

Javad, please! you can't be serious!
I know you only from your posts here on the lists, and you strike me as a
fairly intelligent guy, with a sharp wit and sense of sarcastic humor, so I
am sure that you MUST be pulling the guy's leg here!!!

I ALWAYS expect people to pull over when flashed at, but am NEVER surprised
when they do not. I mean, heck, it's not 3 months since I saw an
intersection full of cars at the light, in all directions (the intersection
itself was clear), everyone waiting for the emergency vehicle to pass, whose
siren everyone heard.

The ambulance was travelling West toward the intersection, and both
westbound lanes were full of waiting cars - only one of which was in the
left (fast) lane. The driver made the sad mistake of assuming that the
driver of the waiting car - having had the sense to stay put on green due to
the audible warning - also would observe optically that the vehicle was
moving up behind him, and therefore move out of the way, and create a
passage for the ambulance.

The ambulance had to come to a complete stop, sit behind the guy with
lights, sirens, horns and everything else for about 10 seconds, before the
guy woke up and got out of the way.

AAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Michael L. Riebs
Grand Rapids, Michigan

'90 V8Q
'98 A6QA

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