Idiot drivers
Todd Young
auditodd at comcast.net
Thu Dec 18 20:12:33 EST 2003
The funny thing is that this represents probably more of a danger than
speeding, and yet I've NEVER seen such a vehicle pulled over by the police.
Larry C. Leung wrote:
> Idiots live in other parts of the US, too. For example, in the suburban
> north of NYC
> area on Monday, the day after the 2nd winter storm of this season (a mere
> 5", mind
> you), I passed what looked like a rolling igloo on the Palisades
> Interstates Pkwy.
> All that was truely uncovered was the driver's side windshield, and a
> portion of
> the driver's front window. The driver DID have their lights on (there
> were red-ish
> spashes out the back, and 4 round whitish splashes out the front, oh,
> it's a bimmer!),
> not like they'd help (fortunately, I think, it was daylight), somehow I
> don't think snow
> lenses have too effective a lighting pattern. The best part, the driver
> was doing around
> 55 MPH, slightly weaving (gee, I guess it's hard to tell where the lane
> markings are
> when, well, what lane markings, the whole world must've looked white
> through that
> windshield!) while yacking on a hand held cell phone......
>
> LL - NY - yeah, try and top that one!
>
>>Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:16:52 -0600
>>From: Todd Young <auditodd at comcast.net>
>>Subject: Re: You'll never know how much you'll miss your quattro
>> until...
>>To: Antti Piirainen <antti.piirainen at iki.fi>
>>Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>>Message-ID: <3FE1D2F4.1040501 at comcast.net>
>
>>Just make sure your banner doesn't block your rearward vision, or it
>>may
>>get you into trouble. Although probably not if you were driving in
>>the
>>Twin Cities, it's amazing how many idiots drive around with snow
>>still
>>covering their windows and tail lights in the town.
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Todd Young
7079 Dawn Ave. E.
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
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