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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!sun-barr!concert!rock!jazz!barber
- From: barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber)
- Subject: Re: Highway 54 at 55 is open again.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.235212.20013@rock.concert.net>
- Sender: news@rock.concert.net
- Organization: MCNC Center for Communications -- CONCERT Network
- References: <1992Nov17.222606.18335@rti.rti.org> <1992Nov18.042634.17989@rock.concert.net> <sasrer.722098348@cinnamon>
- Distribution: triangle
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:52:12 GMT
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- In article <sasrer.722098348@cinnamon> you write:
- >barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Nov17.222606.18335@rti.rti.org> wgr@rti.rti.org writes:
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- >>Uh-oh, don't get me started... One difference here, though, the
- >>tailgaters are definitely endangering the lives of those in front,
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- >>as well. Not only stupid, but criminal, it seems to me.
- >
- >And you don't think those that run across railtracks are not endangering the
- >lives of those on the train? A car can cause a train to jump the track,
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-
- In general, I think the person running the track is taking most of the
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- risk on themselves, while the tailgater has an even break (possibly even
- an advantage, given momemtum and direction) with the car in front of them.
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- >endangering the humans on board, and possibly causing other damage (depends
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- >upon what they are hauling: sometimes tankards of flammable liquids).
- >
- >So, yes, there is a difference: but the end result is that lives are endangered
- >either way....
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- I agree, wholeheartedly.
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- For the most part, it is apparent that tailgaters do not view their
- behavior as life-threatening, to themselves OR their road-neighbors.
- This is, in my mind, a dangerous, criminal, and, for that matter,
- a relatively stupid position, considering the minor benefit gained,
- relative to the potential cost of disaster.
-
- Scott
-
- Scott Barber "I voted for the crazy, bozo, ozone men."
- barber@jazz.concert.net "What is the freedom of the most
- MCNC, RTP, NC, BVD free? To act rightly!" --Goethe
-