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Subject: Tailgaters are all bigoted smokers who drive over 55 mph
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Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 08:36:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  1 08:36:06 1983
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Don Martin recently suggested that braking hard is a very 
unsafe and foolhardy way to react to tailgaters, and I couldn't agree more.
However he then goes on to suggest an alternate response:

			SLOW DOWN!!!  WAY DOWN!!!

Unfortunately, if one were to decelerate to say, 10 mph, on a major highway,
many exciting things could happen.  So I will agree with Don (love those
cartoons he writes for MAD magazine) but with one proviso.  DO slow down, enough
to get the idiot behind you a message, but not so much that YOU become the
hazard (unless, of course, you're driving through New Jersey).

					Don Davis
					JHU/APL
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