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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: tody's hit list er shit list...
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:58:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 10:58:54 1985
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>I gotta agree with number 4 (Jacked up pickups). The headlights
>are illegal in Illinois too (if not covered) but, most cops look
>the other way. What really bothers me is the fact that they are
>so high. Them bastards could roll right over a small car. I find
>that a lot of those idiots don't drive any better that I ice skate
>either. If one of those jerks hits me in my ride, I'm gonna try
>to get them charged with attempted murder. A vehicle's bumpers are
>supposed to match up with other bumpers and not miss by a goodly
>distance. Even semi truck bumpers come closer to matching up with
>car bumpers than these fool pickups do. The problem seems to be

        Here in Florida they have just passed a law about how  high  a
        trucks bumper can be.  I think it was 24-26 inches for a light
        truck.  Heavier trucks can have  slightly  higher  bumpers.  I
        think  the  rationale  used was that the high bumpers are more
        dangerous when one of these trucks hits a  car  in  the  side.
        The  bumpers  go  right  through the windows of a car into the
        passengers.

        The owners of these vechicles  are  screaming  bloody  murder,
        saying  that  it  will  cost  them several thousand dollars to
        lower their trucks.  I'm a little puzzled, because it seems to
        me  that  one could put the bumpers on some sort of extensions
        to meet the letter of the law and leave the rest of the  truck
        up  there.  Of  course  it  would  look a little odd, but that
        shouldn't bother the owners of these  trucks.  :-)  I  haven't
        read  the  law, so it may specify that the bumpers may have to
        be attached to the body of the truck.

						      Joel