Begin forwarded message:
From: Bryan Price <bytehead@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 27, 2006 10:40:03 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: lauren@xxxxxxxxxx, smoke_dc@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Silliness in Action: California Poised for Cell
Phone Ban
I am reminded of the night sitting in my apartment, having just
gotten home from a bad day, and hearing an awful bang of an accident
just outside. I opened the door to find one of the cars involved in
the crash next to my deck. Amazingly, it looked just like my car.
After a moment, I realized that it was, indeed, my car.
A teenager who had just bought the car that set off the excitement
told the police officer, the couple that lived next to me and me that
she was distracted from drive from trying to figure out where the
windshield wipers were at. She hit the car behind me, a new Ford
Escort that hadn't even had it's first payment made, although it was
my car that actually stopper her. My car took out her right fender
all the way to the back of her tire, and shoved my car car about 15
feet into the yard, which just missed the car in front of it, and
managed to not take out my deck either. Now my car was a '73
Chrysler Newport, a large size car for that time, probably close in
size to an H3. Her Buick was not as big as my car.
Now if we really want to take out distractions, I guess we can also
get the windshield wipers too.
Or, as Lauren says, we actually get the drivers themselves for
allowing themselves to be distracted.