[DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix

[Bill Lewis]

Another question:  I wonder if you are burning through these things, if some type of radar detector would be 100% (or almost) trustworthy?



> From: wkooiman at earthlink.net
> To: lotus0005 at hotmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:04:51 -0600
> 
> We drive to Colorado for skiing every year.  We go through two of the safety
> corridors.  They are 100% BS.  There's nothing out there.  If it were an
> accident prone area before the corridor was built, I imagine people were
> hitting coyotes and tumbleweeds.
> 
> I bet these safety corridors were built back in the 80's when the Feds gave
> states money for innovative ways to reduce speeding.  At about the same
> time, Oklahoma kicked up the airplane traps, and Texas bought a bunch of 5.0
> Mustangs.  I saw Camaros somewhere else.
> 
> I don't know if they're all related, but I bet the safety corridors were New
> Mexico's innovative way to get Fed money (i.e. $150 hammer)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of Bill Lewis
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:35 PM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix
> 
> 
> Is there a button on my computer for "Gee, Why didn't I think of that!"
> --Bill (And, Mike thanks for the Chevs of the 40's) Lewis   (Able to
> multi-task on RealBig)
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:28:08 -0500
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix
> From: michaelsavga at gmail.com
> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com; lotus0005 at hotmail.com
> 
> I SECOND THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
> MICHAEL
> On Dec 7, 2011 9:25 PM,  <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/7/11 18 13 33, lotus0005 at hotmail.com writes:
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> > I wonder, have the NM folks raised any ruckus about this - apparently not.
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> I think there's a simple solution to this problem.
> 
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> 
> Although there's a lot of puff about reducing accidents etc., the reality
> 
> is that this is probably a thinly disguised revenue enhancement program.
> 
> It's quite true that accident statistics and so forth will go down any place
> 
> that sees heavy law enforcement; imagine how safe we would all be if
> 
> everybody was forced to drive at 25 mph on the interstates?   So by that
> measure,
> 
> the program is a success.
> 
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> 
> But if 'success' is defined as, 'slowing traffic to a crawl and making
> 
> everyone want to put bullets in their own brains', then something is wrong.
> 
> People like us understand that there are tradeoffs in life; moving at a
> proper
> 
> pace on a freeway necessarily involves higher risk, and sometimes people
> 
> pay the price.   But do we want to live life like the boy in the plastic
> 
> bubble, in the all-encompassing pursuit of 'safety'?
> 
> 
> 
> So, here's the solution.   Go out and buy a junker car.   Drive through a
> 
> safety corridor, and when you see some poor slob pulled over by the cops,
> 
> immediately crash into the cop car.
> 
> 
> 
> If we can all commit to this, pretty soon New Mexico will be out of
> 
> functional cop cars.   Also, the statistics will prove that law enforcement
> in
> 
> so-called 'safety corridors' results in a dramatically increased accident
> rate,
> 
> and the only obvious solution would be to suspend such enforcement
> 
> immediately.
> 
> 
> 
> Once the enforcement is suspended, stop crashing into cop cars (or anything
> 
> for that matter).   The accident rates plummet, and this is 'success' from
> 
> the safety-weenie standpoint.   And then we can all go back to driving
> 
> across new Mexico at 90 mph as nature and God intended....
> 
> 
> 
> Mike
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