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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!ed.ac.uk!Claudio.Terrorist
  2. From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: And Another Traffic Peeve
  5. Message-ID: <C1K3K7.924@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 28 Jan 93 08:57:43 GMT
  7. References: <9301261937.aa00362@antipope.antipope.uucp> <C1K0FH.742@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  8. Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
  9. Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
  10. Organization: 10^23 cubic metres of fluffy dust
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  13. Just seen while walking from JCMB to The Tower(*) another type of
  14. "If I slow down everything will be all right" drivers.
  15.  
  16. OK, so this is city, and the speed limit is 30mph. Take now a driver
  17. who is going 25mph below the limit. Put an ambulance (or any other
  18. emergency vehicle) on the road. The sirens make me jump at first
  19. because I think that this is the police. Then I realise that it's
  20. a different type of siren. The (30-25) mph drivers think the same,
  21. think that they are going to be stopped for speeding [sic], and
  22. slow down to a 0.00001 mph paralitic-old-aged-snail-walk. This, of
  23. course, after placing themselves firmly in the middle of the road.
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  25. The ambulance had to take another way, as they just wouldn't go away.
  26.  
  27. (*) which is nothing more than a jail, redecorated to look like
  28. an University building.
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