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From: mark@hp-kirk.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: And then there are morons who TA - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 03:23:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  8 03:23:37 1983
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#R:auvax:-14300:hp-kirk:7100008:000:1542
hp-kirk!mark    Jul  6 08:07:00 1983

        For all of you who feel that the appropriate response to a
     tailgater is to slow down.  Think again.  The obvious result of this
     tactic is to piss off the SOB.  Since the tailgater is typically in
     that segment of the population that has little regard for safety
     (including your safety as well as theirs), is this the sort of person
     you want pissed off at you?  Some of them are reasonably intelligent
     and will slow down until they can safely pass.  The rest will weave
     back and forth, crowd you even more closely, flash their headlights
     and wait for the slightest opening in which they can pass.  If they
     screw it up, most of them have just enough intelligence to know that
     it is preferable to sideswipe you (running you off the cliff if need
     be) rather than taking the impending head-on collision.  If they do
     manage to get around you it is not uncommon for them to see how close
     they can manage to cut in front of you or to perhaps hit the brakes
     just to shake you up a little.

        If you want to be safe then pull over when tailgated.  If you feel
     that tailgaters must be punished, intimidated or inconvenienced then
     go ahead and play your little games, but your just as big a danger on
     the road as they are and just as likely to end up in the morgue
     (maybe more so).

                                        Death Rowe
                                        hp-pcd!hp-cvd!mark
                                        Corvallis, Oregon