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RE: Passing/Lane Hogs



Now, *that's* reasonable.

Knowing a little bit about German highway patrols, they probably enforce
it too.
- peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	quk@sievers.com [SMTP:quk@sievers.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, February 09, 1997 4:02 PM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Passing/Lane Hogs
> 
> In message
> <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-84-MSG-970209225549Z-406@INET-05-IMC.microsoft.
> com> Peter Henriksen writes:
> 
> > Scenario: Somebody is going 15mph less than the limit on a clear
> sunny
> > day in the leftmost lane of a 4-lane highway.
> 
> As a matter of interest, the above behaviour is illegal in Germany.
> It's 
> illegal to do anything that is considered pretty likely to annoy
> another 
> reasonable person to the point that they might do something
> irrational.  
> Technically, the term is "Noetigung" - "incitement".
> 
> 3 points and a $250 fine. 
> 
> --
>  Phil Payne
>  phil@sievers.com
>  Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club