From: Matthew Russotto on
In article <h9963s12gj8(a)news5.newsguy.com>,
Nate Nagel <njnagel(a)roosters.net> wrote:

>Wouldn't it be better to raise fuel taxes or registration fees or
>something? I mean, it may sound old-fashioned, but to me it only seems
>fair to assess things on a case by case basis and assign blame to the
>party that was actually negligent, reckless, careless, whatever.

That would be hard. Much simpler to just blame the driver.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
From: gpsman on
On Sep 21, 8:34 pm, Nate Nagel <njna...(a)roosters.net> wrote: <maniacal
crossposting adjusted>
>
> I mean, it may sound old-fashioned, but to me it only seems
> fair to assess things on a case by case basis and assign blame to the
> party that was actually negligent, reckless, careless, whatever.
>
> I know, quaint and amusing, but still.

Lol.

What about crashes "caused" by RLCs, underposted speed limits, etc.,
ad nauseum...?
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- gpsman
From: Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS on
Nate Nagel <njnagel(a)roosters.net> wrote in news:h9bgvd0bm1
@news6.newsguy.com:


>
> If a known short yellow light causes a driver to panic stop to avoid a
> ticket, and he is subsequently rear-ended, the blame should be on the
> last person to work on that signal. Simple, no?
>

Hey stupid. If the driver in front of you had room to stop, what's your
excuse??
From: necromancer on
SFB spewed:

>Hey stupid. If the driver in front of you had room to stop, what's your
>excuse??

I hope you get rear ended by a gas truck at a light with a camera.

--
S&DDAM admits to being drunk and to possible drunk driving by way of
a sentence with the poor grammar of the double negative:

"I ain't not never been drunk none in my life. "

--Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS," a.k.a. LBMHB, lb-VH,
Pride of America, aunt millie, Judy Diariya etc...
May 1, 2007, 1331 hrs EDT

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From: N8N on
On Sep 23, 2:31 am, gpsman <gps...(a)driversmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 22, 5:51 pm, Nate Nagel <njna...(a)roosters.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > gpsman wrote:
> > > On Sep 21, 8:34 pm, Nate Nagel <njna...(a)roosters.net> wrote: <maniacal
> > > crossposting adjusted>
> > >> I mean, it may sound old-fashioned, but to me it only seems
> > >> fair to assess things on a case by case basis and assign blame to the
> > >> party that was actually negligent, reckless, careless, whatever.
>
> > >> I know, quaint and amusing, but still.
>
> > > Lol.
>
> > > What about crashes "caused" by RLCs, underposted speed limits, etc.,
> > > ad nauseum...?
> > >  -----
>
> > > - gpsman
>
> > If a known short yellow light causes a driver to panic stop to avoid a
> > ticket, and he is subsequently rear-ended, the blame should be on the
> > last person to work on that signal.  Simple, no?
>
> Simpleminded.
>
> TTBOMK, the greatest reduction of a yellow interval was on the order
> of 0.1 seconds.

False. Plenty of cites out there of lights that were short of ITE
standards by a half second, a second, etc.

nate