Idiot drivers

[superba]

Hi All,

AFAIK, there is no law against being an idiot.

Cheers!

Jim Jordan


>  Message: 1
>  Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:13:04 -0600
>  From: Todd Young <auditodd at comcast.net>
>  Subject: Re: Idiot drivers
>  To: "Larry C. Leung" <l.leung at juno.com>
>  Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>  Message-ID: <3FE250A0.5010604 at comcast.net>
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>  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......
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