Tailgaters Was: winter weather alert- help those in need

[Robert Myers]

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I might suggest that what you regard as tailgating someone else might
regard as remaining in position to pass once you finally decide to stop
holding up traffic and to get over and out of the way.  :-)

At 08:25 AM 2/18/2003 -0500, Greville H. Bowles wrote:

>Re: Tailgaters
>
>I keep a stash of pennies in the car and flip them up through the sun roof.
>I'm currently looking for some method of propelling ball bearings from the
>rear of the car. Suggestions (polite ones)are appreciated. Those of you who
>feel that tailgating is really just drafting need not reply.
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>Mr. Greville H. Bowles
>RR 5, Rockwood, Ontario CANADA
>Phone: (519) 856-0213
>E-mail: zaphod at cansafe.com
>'95 90Q
>'85 245 DL
>'83 GS650GL
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
>Behalf Of Benjamin Weste Pearre
>Sent: February 17, 2003 7:40 PM
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: winter weather alert- help those in need
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>
> > PLEASE, check the Audifans homepage(http://www.audifans.com) to see
> > how you can help those in need.
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>5" isn't that much...  but it's enough that you should clean the snow
>off your roof!  Yeah, it looks cooler if you don't, and it's a good
>way to warn off tailgaters, but large amounts of snow unexpectedly
>hitting the guy behind you in the face can suck.  And, for that
>matter, if you stop quickly and end up with it piled on your hood,
>you'll be pretty stuck, too.  At least you should do avalanche patrol
>on your roof to make sure the snowpack won't be sliding ;)
>
>I thought of another neat way to keep tailgaters away: I'd like to
>mount up a little switch that I could push to let the rear bumper fall
>about 3", as if it were about to fall off.  Assuming the focused EMP
>cannon never gets built...
>
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>Ben Pearre          1990 200TQA          http://hebb.mit.edu/~ben
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I've been wondering... Who would Jesus bomb?

Bob
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