Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.flame Subject: Halogen headlights -- ARGH! Message-ID: <1343@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:06:52 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1343 Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:06:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:27:31 EDT Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.auto:7834 net.flame:11674 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).