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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.flame
Subject: Halogen headlights -- ARGH!
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:06:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:06:52 1985
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Summary: Fight back with high beams!

Halogen headlights are obnoxious!  They serve virtually no useful
purpose, except for sadists who enjoy blinding other drivers!  Well,
I'm not gonna take it any more!

I propose the following solution to the problem:  whenever you see
obnoxiously bright lights staring you in the face, turn on your high
beams.  Sure it's obnoxious, but they're doing it to you; and if enough
people join in this crusade, halogens will disappear (except for drivers
who are sadistic AND masochistic).  Of course, this should only be done
when the Enemy is alone; it wouldn't quite be fair to blind 
noncombatants.  (Far away noncombatants, however, will only be affected
mildly; whereas the crusade to ban halogens will spare them untold
future suffering imposed by the Enemy.)

This guerilla warfare program also applies, of course, to mis-aimed
headlights, and does not apply to any halogens that might somehow be
aimed in a non-offensive way (but I doubt that's possible).