Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!joel From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: tody's hit list er shit list... Message-ID: <1499@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:58:54 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1499 Posted: Mon Aug 19 10:58:54 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 22:12:22 EDT References: <293@cuuxa.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 30 >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