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27 Jan 09 - 01:04 PM (#2550250) Subject: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST,Mrr He's OK but there was something rather inevitable about the way I skidded into him... scary, scary! Have any of you ever been hit by a car? The imprint of his ass is still in my windshield... but everyone is OK (well, not the car, but all the humans and I think the hedge will recover nicely too...)- or hit someone? |
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27 Jan 09 - 01:08 PM (#2550262) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST Don't do it again...unless you're playing for points. :) Glad neither you nor he were hurt; the rest is irrelevant. |
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27 Jan 09 - 01:27 PM (#2550279) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: gnu It's points debited if ya hit them. Ya just wanna scare them. I don't know the exact rules, but Megan does. If yer ever a tourist in Orkney, stay on yer toes. |
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27 Jan 09 - 01:33 PM (#2550283) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Megan L Now Now MRR Lets go over the rules of Stromness soccer once more. 1. drive slowly up the middle of the street(Ok I know you have no option if you want to get through the town at all) 2. when you see someone(Preferably a tourist) crawl the car up as close to them as you can before tooting your horn. 3. If they get such a fright they end up sitting on your bonnet you score 25 points. 4. Actually hitting the participants either with your car or afterwards when they swear at you is not allowed and causes a deduction of 25 points. 6. Extra points may be gained during the folk festival as follows 25 - if they are carrying any instrument 50 - if its another flamin guitar an extra 25 can be gained if it is a Martin (the guitar that is not the player) 75 - if its a melodeon especially if all they can play is dirly dirlyies but you score a massive 100 points if they are carrying either a bodhran(Exception is if it is a Belgarth we dont like damaging local products) or a banjo. but if you think they are good you get a 1000 point bonus if they are carrying a harp(Unless of course its Mark shiner who makes Selkie Harps again local interst) Seriously though we once had a child run into us while we were doing 15 mph past an Icecream van. She ran right into the front passenger door and bounced of. All the witnesses said there was nothing anyone could do and although she screamed a lot the ambulance men said they didnt think she was more than bruised though that was the third time that month they had had to deal with her. The sound was the stuff of nightmares. So glad noone was badly hurt Awra best frae Dauvitt and his Meg |
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27 Jan 09 - 01:42 PM (#2550285) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: InOBU Been hit... never hit anyone. All in all, it is not a good idea. Cheers stay safe lor |
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27 Jan 09 - 01:49 PM (#2550294) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: John MacKenzie In Stromness, you get extra points, and free drink for life in the 'Ferry', if you manage to get a wee pink woman, who shall be nameless. |
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27 Jan 09 - 01:50 PM (#2550296) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Megan L McKenzie Your time cometh ya wee scunner |
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27 Jan 09 - 02:02 PM (#2550305) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: SINSULL Good Grief, Megan. The third time the same child was hit? Wasn't time for someone to deal with her parents? Neglect charges, maybe? Before she gets killed, like... came close once in a parking lot when one boy pushed another into my car. Car was scratched; kid was not. |
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27 Jan 09 - 02:05 PM (#2550307) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: gnu Somewhere on a thread here at The Café is the full story, but, in a nutshell... I once saved the lives of three Skinheads. At the last minute, I decided to swerve my truck around them. |
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27 Jan 09 - 02:06 PM (#2550308) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Megan L Unfortunately Sinsull we were away from home and had no knowledge other than what we were told. |
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27 Jan 09 - 02:13 PM (#2550319) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Leadfingers The Probability of Death or Serious injury is greatly increased in a Car v Pedestrian situation at speeds over 34 mph . |
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27 Jan 09 - 02:14 PM (#2550322) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: gnu Over 4, I'd say. |
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27 Jan 09 - 02:25 PM (#2550329) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: VirginiaTam We used to call it pedestrian polo and you were only supposed to pick off the pricks and pratts that crossed against lights. Once when my youngest was learning to drive and we went past school zone and the Slow Children sign, she piped in fewer points cause slow children are easier to hit. Numbnuts on skateboards were prime. |
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27 Jan 09 - 02:28 PM (#2550333) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: goatfell they should make that law when these bampots with their bloody mobil phone or their ipods just walk out in front of you and that also goes for school children, maybe then they'll lern, I mean primary school children are taught the green crosss code why not adults |
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27 Jan 09 - 03:15 PM (#2550380) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Becca72 LOL, Gnu..that reminds me of my sister. She called to tell me she'd saved the life of a neighborhood cat (My sister is highly allergic and has an extreme dislike of cats). When I asked her about it she said "Yeah, it was sitting in the middle of the road licking its ass and I chose NOT to run it over". |
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27 Jan 09 - 03:39 PM (#2550399) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: heric Last month as a line of cars was opened up into two lanes, a guy with a loud engine roared up from the back, as I was making my slow and well-signaled lane change. Cleary he thought I should and would move aside. I didn't, so he roared up along the shoulder/margin, swerved in front and slammed on the breaks, HARD. Classic road rage tactic, with one significant exception: He was on a motorcycle, and I was in a truck. It still sends shivers up my spine. I don't know how long he will live. |
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27 Jan 09 - 03:39 PM (#2550401) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Rapparee My nephew was walking his bicycle across the street after shopping for a Mother's Day gift when he was hit by a car. Two years of medical treatments changed him into a normal, snarling, morose teenager. |
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27 Jan 09 - 03:40 PM (#2550402) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: heric (I mean someone else will get the points - I didn't hit him.) |
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27 Jan 09 - 05:37 PM (#2550489) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Richard Bridge Even a US attorney should be able to spell "brakes" - unless it was a pun. |
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27 Jan 09 - 05:37 PM (#2550490) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: katlaughing My daughter was on her bicycle when she was about 10 or 11, when a car pulled out and hit her. I didn't see it, but those who did told me she was tossed over the hood of the car and just missed hitting her head on a fire hydrant. When I got there the imbecile emergency crew were trying to get her to pull her arm out of her sweatshirt and blouse, the arm that was attached to the broken clavicle. I had to tell them to cut her clothes off so they could stabilise the break. Idjits! She was very sore, bruised, and scared/relieved, as was I. We didn't get a zillion out of the driver's insurance company, but there was enough to pay for medical and a new bike. |
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27 Jan 09 - 05:40 PM (#2550495) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Liz the Squeak Bittersweet thread this... some of it is funny and I accept it in that context, but my brother was killed aged 17 by a drunk driver and it had a lasting effect on all my family. I have never hit anyone (yet, touch wood, thank the deities, etc) but I've driven past so many idiots in the street clamped to mobile phones or using babies in prams and pushchairs as a crossing aid that I've often wanted to just nudge the car towards them and see how close I can get.... LTS |
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27 Jan 09 - 05:47 PM (#2550503) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Megan L Liz I agree My brother was very seriously injured when some idiot who had been out the night before thought he could jump in a lorry the next morning and drive. when they caught up with him way down the borders he was still several times over the limit. He was drunk but not that drunk that he didny ken the trouble he was in but instead of phoning for help he lifted my brothers bike(When the police checked all lights were working, he was also wearing hi vis gear) he carried about 100 yds along the road and propped it against the parapett of the bridge so it would look like a man had got caught short and nipped down the embankment. However if you have ever seen Stromness you will know on the old street it would be virtually impossible to go fast enough to even hit a hedgehog:) |
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27 Jan 09 - 06:08 PM (#2550522) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: McGrath of Harlow Close thing yesterday. A young man on a monkey bike about 18 inches high suddenly shot directly across the road in front of me, followed by another on a slightly bigger one. Fortunately I slammed on the brakes in time. The car behind gave me what I took to be a hostile honk - I don't think he'd have even seen the bikes. I wish the speed limit round our way was 15 miles an hour... |
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27 Jan 09 - 06:24 PM (#2550533) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: heric I don't know what happened, Richard. I used the spellchecker. Freakin' Bill Gates. |
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27 Jan 09 - 06:51 PM (#2550560) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: JennieG Many years ago one of the young teenage boys who lived down the road from me suddenly rode, on his bicycle, from between two parked cars and into my side door. I was going v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y at the time as I was dropping my son off to kindy and was looking for a parking spot, no one was hurt but it gave us all a fright. Cheers JennieG |
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27 Jan 09 - 06:53 PM (#2550562) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: katlaughing LtS, my mom lost a brother when she was in her teens. He was a year or two older, just ready to graduate from high school. He was riding his bike across a highway and accidentally hit a car. He didn't die from that, but rather from pneumonia in hospital, which was a shock as the docs thought he would live. He was the sibling my mom was closest to; she had a breakdown and was sent to live with an older brother and his wife for about a year. Thank goodness they were very kind people and took good care of her. I've always admired her for the courage it took to let her own kids ride bikes. She never was overly-cautioning or restrictive with us. I think she was very brave. She had his autograph book from school and a few other of his things, kept away in a trunk and, I think, found it difficult to talk about him. It just hurt for so long; it was such a shock. |
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27 Jan 09 - 07:58 PM (#2550615) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Rowan On a lighter note, when I was about 14 I'd bought some oranges and was carrying them home in a paper bag. I had a rather difficult intersection to traverse so I got off the bike and was walking it across the pedestrian crossing when a car came up on the left of another that had stopped for me and clobbered the bike (which I'd been pushing by the saddle), knocking both it and me to the ground. This is Oz, so the miscreant was illegal on two counts; overtaking a car (that wasn't turning) on the left and overtaking a car stopped at a pedestrian crossing. The bike was 'a bit historic' but I was OK and more worried about whether I'd spilled any oranges; I hadn't. The miscreant's lawyer, in trying to avoid the rather piddling cost of repairing the bike (which I'd built out of bits I'd recovered from the local tip) tried to argue that I had been riding on the pedestrian crossing (and thus was not a pedestrian) and also that I had strayed out of the markings (and was thus not actually on the crossing). As it turned out, a colleague of my father (unknown to me) had witnessed it all and corroborated my story; he also commented that I'd turned the air blue with my language, but I had no recollection of such matters. Ever since, I've been very aware of legal technicalities as applied to things we all take for granted. And a couple of events much later in life allow me to sing the praises of Aerolyte instrument cases. Near Paddy's Market in Sydney I was crossing at the lights when a car tried to ignore the rule giving pedestrians "Right of Way"; such people seem to regard kneecaps as softer than their duco and thus of little consequence. He found out that an Aerolyte concer case, which just happened to be between my kneecaps and his car, was quite a lot tougher than his headlight. A few years later I was walking across a controlled intersection (ie traffic lights) in Melbourne when a clown (with NSW numberplates) steamed through against a red light; the concer case disintegrated his wing mirror. Score: Concer case 2, cars nil. Cheers, Rowan |
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27 Jan 09 - 08:06 PM (#2550618) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Bee-dubya-ell I've had kids on bicycles run into the side of my car on three separate occasions. For a number of years, it was sort of a ritual; buy a new car, wait a few weeks, some careless kid on a bike runs into it and dents a door. Fortunately, none of the riders were hurt. |
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27 Jan 09 - 08:12 PM (#2550620) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST (To be read in exaggerated Cape Breton accent:) Hughie: Allen, did you hear there was a fellow hit by a car on Charlotte Street this morning? Allen: No; no, I didn't - what happened? Hughie: Well, I don't know - they said he was a pedestrian ... Allen (indignantly): I don't care what church a man goes to - it's no reason to run over him with a car!
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27 Jan 09 - 08:17 PM (#2550625) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Janie Remember the bumper sticker So many pedestrians, so little time.... |
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27 Jan 09 - 09:41 PM (#2550671) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: artbrooks 25 points if she (yes, it is almost always a she) is talking on her cell phone. 50 points if she is also doing her nails. 100 points if she is doing her nails and texting. |
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27 Jan 09 - 10:20 PM (#2550687) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST Oh, come on Art. There are plenty of flavors of stupid to go around, with the same result. As an aggregate, I'm sure it evens out.(though more women will be the ones doing the nails) My most recent fav was the trio of older teen kids intentionally speeding out into traffic on bikes, wearing black, into a dark area at night of a major road, and laughing about the reactions. In my case. I barely saw them in time. They were very pleased.
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28 Jan 09 - 03:56 AM (#2550774) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Liz the Squeak I had someone stick their tongue out at me yesterday... I was waiting at a crossing watching a woman in her car holding her mobile phone to one ear, playing with her hair with the other hand whilst the car she was driving was moving forwards.... (how many people have you seen steering with their third hand?!) I said, in my usual dulcet tones 'Get off the phone you stupid tw*t' which I gather she heard, because she grabbed the wheel, dropped the phone and stuck her tongue out at me, all whilst continuing through the busy junction! It's people like that that make me want to own an SUV or a Hummer... just so I can park on them. LTS |
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28 Jan 09 - 05:13 AM (#2550808) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: goatfell aye the police are good at hitting people with their cars but then they go around a harrass them if they try to take them to court. I was on my bike when I was knocked down by this idiot I was going round a bend in the road when he started to pass me and just kept coming in closer and closer and then he knocked me off my bike, why don't driver use their mirrors. but then you'll get the people that blame cyclists, or people that walk along the pavement/sidewalk for do all these things you know it's never their fault. Drivers in vehicals are terrible but so are these folk with mobile phones/ipods or with buggys/prams are terrible as well. |
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28 Jan 09 - 06:23 AM (#2550841) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: manitas_at_work I was hit by a police car. No one was hurt and the police were incredibly embarrassed particularly as the shifts were changing and all their mates kept strolling by to snicker at them. We had no trouble claiming off the insurance and there was no harrassment. Strange that, don't you think, in light of the above comments? |
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28 Jan 09 - 06:27 AM (#2550844) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Sleepy Rosie I wonder whether cars would hit less or more, pedestrians and cyclists if we were composed of cast iron instead of squishy stuff? |
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28 Jan 09 - 06:46 AM (#2550852) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Megan L We have a big problem up here especially during the summer with cyclists who seem to think because the have come to an islad they can do whatever they like , wear dark clothing no reflective or flourescents unlit bikes and cycling 3 or four abreast or weaving all over the road because it seemed like a good idea to hire a bike even though the daft blighters probably havent been near wan since they were weans. |
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28 Jan 09 - 08:21 AM (#2550891) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Sandra in Sydney on the other hand - how about a pedestrian hitting a car? There I was waiting to cross the road, on the footpath, at a crossing. There she was trying to come around said corner creeping across the crossing, looking fixedly to her right for on-coming traffic so she could (legally & properly) edge out. Seeing a gap, on she came, slowly & properly, & I hit her car wiv me brolly to get her attention, & said politely "This is a pedestrian crossing, you need to look both ways" & walked past th front of her car, across the crossing. When I got to the other side after passing 4 waiting lines of traffic, I heard a car horn & looked back to see her frozen in the spot where I left her! I reckon I scared 10 years off her life & she would NEVER approach a crossing or any corner without looking left right left right left right left right ... like a spectator at a tennis match. sandra (1 point for the pedestrians!) |
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28 Jan 09 - 10:08 AM (#2550983) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST,Mrr Thank you all for the uplifting stories, including the terrible ones that make me feel lucky. That poor guy - happy new year to you, eh? (He was Chinese. Well, presumably still is.) I had forgotten once I was bicycling fast between parked cars and traffic when somebody jumped out from behind a parked van and ran into me, we both fell quite hard into traffic, but nobody hit us... I still remember the SIZE of that truck bearing down on us, though! |
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28 Jan 09 - 10:59 AM (#2551017) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Peace "On hitting pedestrians with cars" If it's a very light car, maybe. But those one-ton things are a bitch to pick up . . . . |
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28 Jan 09 - 11:03 AM (#2551021) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Megan L PEACE SKELP |
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28 Jan 09 - 11:27 AM (#2551049) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: frogprince One-ton things? I don't think there is anything on the market now that weighs less than one ton unless it's a "Smart". I had an early Toyota Corolla, and an early Subaru, each of which weighed 1700-1800 lbs., but that's been awhile. |
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28 Jan 09 - 11:42 AM (#2551071) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Peace Take out the motor and it's easier. |
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28 Jan 09 - 12:00 PM (#2551097) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: frogprince "Smartfortwo", without driver, 1808 lbs for coupe, 1852 for convertible. |
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28 Jan 09 - 12:16 PM (#2551116) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Peace LOL |
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28 Jan 09 - 01:48 PM (#2551198) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: gnu I'd like to have one a them there Smart Cars. My Ford pickup is 11 1/2 years old and breaks down every now and then. If I had one them in the back, I'd be cool. |
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28 Jan 09 - 03:32 PM (#2551283) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Gurney Long ago, I hit two pedestrians in one weekend! The first was a young girl who ran into traffic whilst playing 'chase.' Several witnesses, the police investigated, I was absolved of blame. But I bowled her, and she was hurt. But not seriously nor permanently. Two nights later, I was taking my girlfriend to a folkclub when the car in front stopped, the passenger jumped out, and he ran around the car and into my path, bouncing off the bonnet with both hands. With a 'Sorry, mate. My fault!" he was on his way. He was fine, but I wasn't. I sat there shaking. Never hit anyone before or in the thirty years since, but the memory is fresh. |
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28 Jan 09 - 06:07 PM (#2551416) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST,Mrr I have a new T-shirt that says "Smite Me" ... but I wasn't wearing it! |
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28 Jan 09 - 09:07 PM (#2551564) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Riginslinger "On hitting pedestrians with cars..." It's the best thing to hit them with. If you hit them with boxing gloves, they just get up and go on. |
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29 Jan 09 - 02:15 AM (#2551681) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: VirginiaTam I saw a bumper sticker once that said "If you don't like the way I drive, then get the hell off the sidewalk!" |
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29 Jan 09 - 06:54 AM (#2551807) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST,Bob L I have a 1973 Mini Scamp kit car, whose chassis sticks out at all the corners - not at all in line with today's SVA regulations. These things are SOLID (argumentative brick walls have been known to develop crumple zones). Thank the Lord, I've never had a collision with anything animate, and I pray I never will. Besides a normal street-legal warning of approach, it has one of these "bull" horns so I can moo at silly cows.... |
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30 Jan 09 - 12:46 AM (#2552585) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: Ebbie I'll be glad when this thread sinks off the page- I keep reading it as 'On hitting pedestrians with care.' |
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30 Jan 09 - 02:42 PM (#2553144) Subject: RE: BS: On hitting pedestrians with cars From: GUEST,Mrr Bob L - thank your skill in driving, hee hee! |