Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:57:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leak in getLawsByStupidity??? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970922145604.7212J-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970922093052.18994@strand.iii.co.uk>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 08:45:18PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > I once got a ticket for driving barefoot in Utah. From a state park > > ranger, no less. What, I ask you, is wrong with driving a car barefoot? > > Something to do with a safety reflex (I believe). If your bare sole comes > down on something hard and possibly sharp, your immediate reflex is to lift > your foot away from the object. > > If this object is a brake pedal and you're trying to slam on the anchors, > the sudden connection between the sole of your foot and the pedal is likely > to cause you to immediately take your foot off the brakes. This is obviously > a bad thing. > > There's a bunch of this stuff at > > http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/driving.barefoot/driving_barefoot.html > > The only snag being that Utah was one of the states that didn't reply. I always thought the big motivation was to keep people from kickin off their shoes while behind the drivers seat. Your should could easily become lodged under one of the pedals. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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