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From: frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Radar detectors
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 19:52:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 19:52:09 1985
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In responce to CONWAY's posting, I know people get splattered
all over the place in auto accidents. Reducing the speed limit
did not reduce the number of accidents, watchin' for ol' Smokey
did. That would have worked if more bears had been out inforcing
the 70 mile per hour limit. I think a lot of people know the
reason the speed limit was lowered. The clowns just did it to
be pricks. The cars running the roads at the time did not save
gas running at 55 instead of 70. They were designed to run good
in a specified torque band (spectrum of engine rpm) and that 
produced a speed of about 65-70 mph. That's just the way that
old road iron was built in those days. Now we have to suffer
with little shitbox cars that we have to put on instead of get 
in. They may do better at 55 but older cars don't. I think to
save lives, maybe there ought to be a real drivers' test in-
stead of the jokes people go through to get a liscence. Teach
them to drive and not how to submit to government bullshit.

As far as using a radar detector to detect speed traps, if you
don't have one of those you can get a CB radio. Most of the
drivers out there will tell you where Smokey is collectin' them
green stamps.

As far as taking my time goes, if I had the time I coulda walked
from point a to point b. I got in the damned car to drive it, not
to watch it rust away in 55 mph traffic. I coulda left it sit and
rust in the apartment parking lot, I didn't have to park it on the
highway to rust. All this crap is just the polititians' trying to
protect me from myself. It makes me very angry. You keep protecting
people and they become dependant on it. They forget how to protect
themselves. I don't see how anyone can call that good.

Whew, I feel better. Not flaming you personally CONWAY. I just do
not like polititians. We let people run this country who have no
idea what us real people gotta put up with. They keep trying to
take the constitution and its bill of rights apart and eventually
they'll make it. The right to unrestricted travel is infringe a
lot now-a-days. That ammendment didn't include or exclude motor
vehicles. I must take it that the folks who wrote it purposely
left out the means by which a person could get the job done. I
conclude, accordingly, that it is my right to operate a motor or
steam or wind (whatever) powered vehicle. Of course, if someone
kills someone with anything, be it car, gun, jugheaded horse, a
half of a paving brick, just lock his ass up and either get rid
of him or keep him locked up. That is, unless it was a justified
killing. On the lighter side, has anyone heard of anyone (lately
that is) running over anybody with an ol' broomtailed hay burner?







Damn, Frye again!
Who does he think he is? Anyhow?