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Beware of newspaper readers
I took this photo last week on the main Monza Milan road (SS36) travelling in stop start traffic. I took the photo as I felt an insurance claim was imminent.
 It wasn't only that I had to keep using the horn to get her attention to avoid running into me. It was that we went passed two police vehicles in another lane without them taking any notice. The lady driver was too busy with her newspaper and tearing out items of interest to notice anything. The traffic was moving fast enough to make stopping to have words dangerous and it would be a silly action anyway.
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12-13-2004, 06:19 AM
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The car in front of you was probably thinking the same thing about the guy behind him taking pictures of other cars...
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12-13-2004, 10:37 AM
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No. I was stopped when I took it with one hand on the horn.
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12-13-2004, 10:41 AM
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Have seen several people reading a book while driving... idiots!
I have taken one of the books on audio tape on long drives but would never think about reading anything while driving. JoeA
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12-13-2004, 06:45 PM
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Gee I see them watching TV here.
Your Suv isnt cool unless you have a DVD for everyone. Including the driver. |
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12-13-2004, 10:47 PM
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Milu you could never live in Florida. We dodge tourists reading maps and stuff all day. I took out one about 3 years ago that was STOPPED on the interstate exit ramp trying to figure out were they were. Ya gotta drive sharp here.
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12-14-2004, 05:09 AM
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I guess I'm too old fashioned for big city ways
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12-14-2004, 05:22 AM
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yes we have all those stickers here. Also " Welcome to Florida..now go home" I live in a tourist city and the population doubles here from Thanksgiving to Easter. It's a nightmare trying to go anywhere.
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12-14-2004, 01:51 PM
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People amaze me. The concept that your responcible for the moving mass of a 3000lbs (or more, not to often less) object is totally irrelivant. If people only realized that "safty crash tests" are done at slower speeds, they would think twice of how safe those crash dummies really are.
To which i think the government could make good money installing institutions that you go and pay to teach you to drive better. The teachers would be qualified by perfessional race car drivers (since that class of people pay alittle bit more attention from time to time). The higher the classification you get, the bigger the vehicle you can drive AND legaly drive faster on the roads. That would install more "responcibility" to the civilians. And, exceeding your "stated abilities" would be big time fines, which would incourage everyone to be better drivers.
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12-14-2004, 02:04 PM
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Good luck..they can't even find Osama
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12-14-2004, 02:09 PM
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Osama is one guy. The state highway patrol is thousands. I think its a far fetched idea, but a reasonable one atleast.
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12-14-2004, 02:35 PM
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Maybe the SHP can find him.
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12-14-2004, 03:31 PM
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Ahh, my bad. my girlfriends father is a CHP officer, i'll run it by him.
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12-14-2004, 05:25 PM
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10 yr toy
