Isn't it amazing how an incident concerning air travel happens and within a few hours, we've got all kinds of mandates and "elevated threat levels" and every airport is a scrambling keystone-cops routine that affects everybody in the system? Why couldn't something that widespread and effective ever happen for GROUND transport? Where is the TSA's directive, "Beginning September 11, 2006, any state shown failing to enforce tailgating laws LOSES its federal highway funding until they FIX the problem that's killing way more people than a few nutcases with explosive acne cream could hope to take out" ??? . Peoples' priorities are *so* screwed up, especially in this country. . _H*
Hi, "Hobbit"! Tailgating is my favorite gripe! Besides stabbing my brakes & dipping my nose(of the car!LOL!) to scare the fertilizer out of these imbicles, I can't help but think of my story to the cop investigating the "rear-ender"! Somehow, it'll end up MY FAULT! Have you also noticed the "push" mentality of gravel dumptruck drivers? The ones with double-digit IQs....What's a little car driver to do??? ARGH! -whitevette :driveby1:
Hobbit I was thinking that only last night on my way home, but admit to getting a chuckle from your "explosive acne cream" comment!
I don't know if it's a lack of respect for *life*, because some really inordinate efforts are often made keeping people *alive* who shouldn't be -- criminals, terminal cases, etc. We have paramedics who for reasons I personally cannot fathom make every effort to save lives of people who will then endure long, excruciating recovery and probably be disfigured/crippled for life thereafter. I don't get it. Still, there are some really simple reasons people *don't* have to die or be injured on the roads and be scraped off the pavement on a daily basis. . I've decided that I need my "yuppie button" again. In my old Trooper, it was a set of relays wired up so that a momentary pushbutton would light every available lamp on the rear of the vehicle. I used it fairly effectively to get people off my butt, warn them that no, maybe I'm not accelerating hell-bent out of the turn I just made, and get them to dip their high beams. Sometimes it worked, sometimes they were just oblivious. But having dug into the wiring diagram of the Prius a little more I'm realizing that it's not that hard, at least to get the brakes, directionals, and reverse to all flick on at once and at least wake up the yupster behind me that hey, there's something unusual about this vehicle ahead and maybe it's time to get off that phone and pay attention for a while. . But if he doesn't, and creams my sorry butt, don't go to any extraordinary lengths on my account. There are already way too many people suckin' up resources in this world. Drop off whatever's left at the nearest med school, and be done with it. But do everything you can to make *his* life either permanently miserable, or nonexistent -- his choice. . _H*
