Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!ded From: ded@aplvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Tailgaters are all bigoted smokers who drive over 55 mph Message-ID: <150@aplvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 08:36:06 EDT Article-I.D.: aplvax.150 Posted: Fri Jul 1 08:36:06 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 22:47:57 EDT Lines: 15 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 ...decvax!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!ded