[BC] Re: Illegal doesn mean anything anymore!!!!

[cld@admin.umass.edu]

Connecticut just passed a law against tailgating. We'll see how well that one 
is enforced.

CD

Quoting Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>:

> ------ At 02:11 PM 7/23/2005, Phil Alexander wrote: -------
> 
> >And this is different from Western Mass? How's that? <ggg>
> >
> >(For the folks who don't get this, it's a God-given right to turn
> >  left in front of oncoming traffic when the light turns green in
> >  Western Mass. If you even scowl at the third car doing it, you may
> >  get a digital indication of the driver's IQ, or the "Mass. wave"
> >  which is a wimpy wave of the hand and shrug that translates as,
> >  "So, I screwed up, so what?")
> 
> I don't see it as being much different. One pulls out of a side 
> street only when you can clearly read the renewal date on the license 
> plate of the oncoming car. Tailgating is a sport here. Driving home 
> today from a party the woman behind me could read my speedometer. The 
> limit was 50mph. My theory is that, if she's going to hit me it's 
> going to be at 25mph. I slowed down until she got the point. Then 
> there's the little old lady so afraid of driving that she drives 
> 25mph on a 2 lane highway where the limit is 50. No passing allowed, of
> course.
> 
> Rich
> 
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