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Subject:Re: Frydaye - Chinese VW Jetta gets flattened......
From:Neil2
Date:Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:07:58 -0700

Very good.  Enjoyable!  Thanks.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:40 AM, David Kao <dtkao0205@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In California in my neighborhood I have seen plenty of divers
> like that too. There is one intersection with 3 lanes on one street.
> The right after crossing the intersection goes to a freeway ramp.
> But before the freeway ramp there is a gas station on the right
> side.
>
> So what I see everyday is this. Some drivers on the right lane will
> go across the intersection then right turn into the gas station.
> The drivers on the middle lane will go straight passing the freeway
> ramp. The divers on the left lane mostly go through the intersection
> then make emergent right turn, cutting off the drivers on the middle
> lane and even some drivers on the right lane, then dive into the
> freeway ramp.
>
> It all happen like that everyday smoothly and apparently never had any
> accidents there and no cops either. Strange enough that nobody bother
> to honk at anyone either. It is the way supposed to be I guess. There
> are no turn signals given if the divers drive F-150 or 1500 trucks
> in particular.
>
> In my opinion when drivers go a long way to take a short cut they become
> divers. Vanagons are known to reject divers, or is it the other way
> around?
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
>
> > From: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
> > Subject: Frydaye - Chinese VW Jetta gets flattened......
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:15 AM
> > Oh, those crazy divers in China.  This busy intersection
> > doesn't appear to
> > have any traffic signals or rules!
> >
> >   They're apparently all new drivers there, and they
> > seem to try to drive
> > cars the same way that they've walked or bicycled for
> > the past several
> > thousand years..........
> >
> > http://www.break.com/index/scary-truck-rollover-destroys-small-car.html
>

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Neil2
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