[T3] 1 month from yesterday!!!

[Dave Hall]

Seen on British TV, a motorway (freeway) totally stationery in all three
lanes.  A police car comes along the hard shoulder (emergency lane?) and
stops by a driver who is using his mobile (cell) phone and threatens to book
him (give him a ticket).  In the UK it is illegal to use a mobile (cell)
phone when driving - including when the car is stationery in a traffic jam
if the engine is running.    Not all police (cops) are as stupid as that,
are they?

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim Adney
Sent: 23 May 2012 06:08
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] 1 month from yesterday!!!

On 22 May 2012 at 20:32, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:

> Yes, I did understand it. It's just that I had never seen that type of 
> "failure" before. I mean, yes it failed to stay in place, but after 
> re-positioning it, it worked fine for the 70 miles I drove home.

I hope you realize that the only way this could have happened is that you
didn't get the tab inserted correctly when you installed the points. That
tab will never jump out on its own.

> On top of that, someone else's car stopped almost exactly where we 
> originally did, but he couldn't move out of his lane, so he was partly 
> blocking traffic. I'd guess he was sitting in that spot for about a 
> half hour, before  John came to our rescue. Before that, I watched 2 
> guys change a tire on the I-75 ramp to I-94. It was really a bad spot 
> for cars, and with construction dropping 3 lanes to 1, really made traffic
back up pretty good.

So, in the same area where you were stopped on the side of the road,
2 other cars stopped and blocked 2 out of 3 traffic lanes? Wow, there's no
shortage of stupidity in the driving public.

A year ago I watched a car drive halfway thru an I-Pass toll area before
realizing he didn't have an I-Pass transponder. So he slammed on his brakes
and stopped in the middle of the fast lane on the freeway. That was on the
freeway, in the Chicago area.

Later that night, we witnessed a minor accident on the freeway, followed by
a half dozen people getting out of the car in the middle lane and then
wandering around in the traffic lanes, engrossed in their cell phones, IN
THE DARK!!!

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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