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Subject:Re: Rear-facing halogens
From:David Beierl
Date:Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:48:27 -0500

At 08:04 PM 2/2/2001, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>anything else than this light after that, yet he remained stuck to my tail
>at 60-70mph for a long while after that! Maybe he was using me as a
>cop-shield, as the speed limit was 80kmh (50mph) at the time, back in 1987
>or so.

He was probably trying to reload...I wouldn't recommend this trick myself.

Now I once knew an engineer who thought he could rig up a CO2 laser to seek
the bright headlights and beam right back into the reflector and make the
lamp burn out right then...I don't know how big he decided it would have to
be...nice quiet make 'em go away, at least until it decides to target
somebody's bald head instead of a headlight...

d

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