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

[Rachel Ehrenberg]

I know a lawyer who is so talented...that he could get a charge of
sodomy reduced to tailgating.
Now I guess he REALLY has challenge.

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:07:02 -0400, cld at admin.umass.edu said:
> 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
> > 
> > Rich Wood
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> > 
> > 
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