[geeks] Race Tracks

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Sat Apr 21 23:24:25 CDT 2007


der Mouse wrote:
>>>> In downstate New York, there have always been truck drivers who
>>>> open their door when they see you coming.
>>> Wow, that's seriously messed up.  What are they thinking?  Do they
>>> really intend murder?
>> And unfortunately, the law sides with the truckers, because it's
>> illegal to lane-split.
> 
> Say WHAT?
> 
> You're telling me that it's acceptable to deliberately cause a critical
> and quite likely fatal traffic accident just because one of the
> vehicles involved happens to be guilty of a particular moving
> violation?
> 
> I don't think I'm going to be entering New York for a good long while -
> even after I consider the USA in general acceptable again (if *that*
> ever happens, of course).  That is just *so* broken.

Gotta love New York.
*spit*
I never go there if I have a choice in the matter.


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 Phil Stracchino              phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
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